Staff
Helix Editing is headed by Dr. Janet Novak. She has worked in biomedical editing for eight years. Papers she edited have appeared in top journals, including Nature, JAMA, and Cell. She is a member of the American Medical Writers Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Janet received a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder and did postdoctoral research at Yale University. Her own publications include:
- Novak JE, Ross-Macdonald P, and Roeder GS. The budding yeast Msh4 protein functions in chromosome synapsis and the regulation of crossover distribution. Genetics 2001; 158:1013-1025.
- Novak JE, Jarvis TC, and Kirkegaard K. RNA: transcription, transfection, and quantitation. In: Kangro H and Mahy BWJ, eds. Virology Methods Manual. London: Academic Press; 1995:165-189.
- Novak JE and Kirkegaard K. Coupling between genome translation and replication in an RNA virus. Genes & Development 1994; 8:1726-1737.
- Novak JE and Kirkegaard K. Improved method for detecting poliovirus negative strands used to demonstrate specificity of positive-strand encapsidation and the ratio of positive to negative strands in infected cells. Journal of Virology 1991; 65:3384-3387.