Petra Vande Zande PhD Candidate Wittkopp Lab Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Who/what brought you to science? From an early age I have been fascinated with the beauty of the natural world and filled with curiosity about how it works, from ecosystems down to the molecular level. As a high school…
Ryan Mills, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Associate Professor of Human Genetics Our laboratory develops methods for analyzing RNA sequence data, with a focus on quantifying and assessing rates of translation using ribosome footprinting techniques. We are also actively studying novel mechanisms of translational regulation at the transcriptional level. Visit Lab Website…
Jiaqi Shi, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology, Surgical Pathology Department of Pathology Our lab is interested in studying how epigenetic alterations in pancreatic cancer affect transcription and how this effect contributes to pancreatic cancer development. Visit Website View Michigan Research Experts Profile Follow on Twitter: @jiaqishi  What are your research interests?…
Marissa Cloutier Ph.D. Candidate Kalantry Lab Department of Human Genetics Who/what brought you to science? I got hooked on science while taking a developmental biology course at Albion College. The following semester I began doing research with the professor who taught the course and I have been involved in science ever since! What…
Sundeep Kalantry, Ph.D Associate Professor Associate Chair for Research Department of Human Genetics Our research aims to define how epigenetic regulation occurs in mammals. We use X-chromosome inactivation, which results in transcriptional silencing of most genes along one of the two X-chromosomes in female mammals, to gain insights into epigenetic processes, including through chromatin modifications…
Anthony Antonellis, Ph.D James V. Neel Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics Chair, Department of Human Genetics Professor of Neurology, Medical School Our group is broadly interested in how human genetic variation affects gene and genome function. One area of research is grounded in the observation that mutations in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases cause myriad disease…
Ashley Kalinski, Ph.D. Research Fellow Giger Lab Cell and Developmental Biology In 2020, Ashley Kalinski was offered an Assistant Professor position at Ball State University. Who/what brought you to science? I remember being completely fascinated with neuroscience from a very young age. However, my real âscience momentâ didnât happen for me until graduate school. One…
Peter Todd, M.D., Ph.D Bucky and Patti Harris Professor of Neurology Our lab studies how nucleotide repeat expansions lead to neurological disease with an aim of developing novel treatments based on mechanistic insights. Specifically, we study how repeats as RNA bind to proteins and prevent them from performing their normal functions. We also study how…
Jianzhi (George) Zhang, Ph.D. Marshall W. Nirenberg Collegiate Professor Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Our lab is interested in evolution of gene expression and expression noise, RNA modification, and translation regulation. Visit Lab Website What are your research interests? My research area is molecular and genome evolution. I am particularly interested in the…
Sally Camper, Ph.D. Margery W. Shaw Distinguished University Professor Professor of Human Genetics Professor of Internal Medicines Our lab is interested in single cell RNA sequencing for understanding cell differentiation in health and disease. Visit Lab Website View Michigan Research Experts Profile Follow on Twitter: @sallycamper What are your research interests? Regulation of…
Shigeki Iwase, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Genetics Our group studies histone methylation-mediated mechanisms underlying mRNA production, i.e. transcription, in the brain. Given that many histone methyl regulators are mutated in cognitive disorders, our research may yield important insights into how histone methylation is involved in normal and pathological brain development and function.Visit Lab WebsiteView…
2017-2018 RNA Innovation Seminar Series RNA Innovation Seminars (6/18/18) Melani Ohi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Research Associate Professor, Life Sciences Institute Using Cryo-EM to study RNA based molecular machines Jacob Kitzman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Massively parallel measurement of mutationsâ functional effects RNA Innovation Seminars|| Theme: RNA viruses/retroviruses (6/4/18)  Andrew Tai, M.D.,…
4th annual Toronto RNA Enthusiasts Day (TREnD) 7/30/19 (flyer) Keynote speaker: Dr. Tracy Johnson (UCLA) SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning (686 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario) For more information visit: trendrna.com 2nd Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly and Nanobiotechnology 7/29/19 (flyer) Ohio State University, Cleveland OH For more information visit: rnanano.osu.edu/Guo/Biomotor2019/Biomotor2019.html ENCODE 2019: Research Applications and…
RNA Innovation Seminars (6/8/17): Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall âMax Wicha, MD âRegulation of breast cancer stem cells by non-coding RNAâsâ (Abstract, Flyer) 5/18/17 RNA Seminar Grill and Dahl Thurs, May 18, 2017: Michigan League â Michigan Room (2nd Floor) âSheri A. Grill âThe long and short of human TPP1â and Jan Dahl âThe anti-inflammatory drug mesalamine targets bacteria polyphosphate accumulationâ (Grill Abstract, Dahl Abstract, Seminar Flyer) Thurs,…
June 30, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall â Edgar Otto : âMicrofluidic droplet generation technology (Drop-Seq) enables high-throughput single cell transcriptomicsâ and Peter Freddolino : âThe logic of transcriptional regulation in bacteria: From molecules to cellsâ June 23, 2016: Palmer Commons, Fourth Floor Forum Hall â John Moran : âStudies of a Human Retrotransposonâ and Eric Fearon: âWorking toward improved mouse models of somatic tissue mosaicism and cancer developmentâ June…
Initially scheduled for March 27, 2020, our 5th Annual Symposium “From RNA Biology to Medicine” is rescheduled for March 26, 2021 University of Michigan, Biomedical Research Science Building, 109 Zina Pitcher TOGETHER, WE SOLVE … Morning Welcome and Introduction, Mark Schlissel (President, University of Michigan) Afternoon Welcome and Introduction, Srijan Sen (Associate Vice President for…
March 25, 2019 By Annie Kadeli Biosciences Initiative Topic: Health & Medicine, Research The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicineâs fourth annual symposium on Friday will focus on foundational ribonucleic acid biosciences, from discovery to function. Recent discoveries in biomedicine have revealed that RNA is critical to most aspects of human health and that its misregulation is responsible…
MICHIGAN MEDICINE HEADLINES>Â UPDATES & RESOURCES March 26, 2019 Â //Â FOUND IN:Â Updates & Resources The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicineâs fourth annual symposium on March 29 will focus on foundational ribonucleic acid biosciences, from discovery to function. Recent discoveries in biomedicine have revealed that RNA is critical to most aspects of human health and that its…
(Photo by Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography) Growing up in Germany, Nils G. Walter formed a positive, but secondhand, impression of the United States. His father had been a prisoner of war in Texas who often told Walter about the kindness of Americans and T-bone steaks the size of dinner plates. âThere were a lot of…
October 29, 2018 University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative video ANN ARBORâA new center for the study of concussions, an institute for global change biology, and a facility to advance the new field of cryo-electron tomography are among the University of Michigan projects to be funded in the first round of investments from President Mark Schlisselâs…
