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Amanda Orosco

Amanda Orosco

Joined CMB:
2021
CMB Mentor:
Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Role of keratin proteins in epithelial differentiation and epithelial homeostasis
Carole Parent

Carole Parent, Ph.D.

Raymond and Lynne Ruddon Collegiate Professor of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology
Research Professor of the Life Sciences Institute
Accepting new students?
No
Trainings or Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training
Research Interests:
Cell migration, signaling, immune responses, cancer invasion
Henry Paulson

Henry Paulson, MD, Ph.D.

Neurology
Research Interests:
Polyglutamine neurodegenerative disease; Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 3; RNA interference as potential therapy including studies of polyglutamine diseases and Alzheimer's disease
Jillian Pearring

Jillian Pearring, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Accepting new students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Change It Up!, EMBO Laboratory Leadership Training
Research Interests:
Photoreceptor Cell Biology, Membrane Trafficking, Ciliogenesis, Inherited Retinal Disease
Christopher Pineda

Christopher Pineda

Joined CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Using biochemical and microscopy approaches with cell culture and mouse models, I am fascinated to reveal nuclear Keratin’s role in DNA damage response mechanisms.
Sethu Pitchiaya

Sethu Pitchiaya, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Urology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Gene regulation, RNA biology, Cancer Biology, Stress response, Single-cell and single-molecule analysis
Madison Pletan

Madison Pletan

Joined CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Billy Tsai, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Hillsdale College
Research Interests:
Understanding how polyomaviruses exploit host cell machinery to enter the nucleus
Scott Pletcher

Scott Pletcher, Ph.D.

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Disability Awareness Training, HHMI Gilliam Mentor
Research Interests:
Neural control of aging
Rachael Powers

Rachael Powers

Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Henry Paulson, MD, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
Neurodegeneration, spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), Huntington's disease (HD)
Lev Prasov

Lev Prasov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Ophthamology and Visual Sciences
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Genetics, eye disease, developmental disorders
John Prensner

John Prensner, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Research Interest
Pediatric brain cancers, RNA translation, non-canonical open reading frame, RNA therapeutics, genomics
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Malini Raghavan

Malini Raghavan, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Anti-Racism Training, CMB DEI Task Force, Intercultural Training, First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
Immunity to Virus Infections and Cancers
Brynne Raines

Brynne Raines

Joined CMB:
2020
CMB Mentor:
Goutham Narla, MD, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Research Interests
I am interested in understanding and identifying mechanisms of resistance to anti-neoplastic drugs.
Rao

Rajesh Rao, MD

Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Pathology, and Human Genetics
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Stem cells, organoids, retina, epigenetics, blindness
Alnawaz Rehemtulla

Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology
Research Interests:
Genetic basis of therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma and identification of therapeutic targets that reverses resistance to standard of care therapies.
Aaron Renberg

Aaron Renberg

MSTP Student
Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
Adam Helms, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Michigan
Student Organizations:
Galens Medical Society;Pediatrics Student Interest Group
Anthony Robison

Anthony Robinson

Joined CMB:
2020
CMB Mentor:
Roman Giger, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Research Interests
How the regulation of Semaphorin and Plexin signaling affect brain development.
Nick Rossiter

Nick Rossiter

Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
Yatrik Shah, Costas Lyssiotis
Research Interests:
Cancer metabolism, methylglyoxal sensitivity, CRISPR screening, bioinformatics
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Notre Dame, B.S. (2019)
Sonya Royzenblat

Sonya Royzenblat

Joined CMB:
2021
CMB Mentor:
Lydia Freddolino, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Wayne State University
Research Interests:
chromosome conformation, translation, DNA structure
Mark Russell

Mark Russell, MD

Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Research Interests:
Dr. Russell is studying mechanisms of cardiac and skeletal myofibril assembly, alignment and structural support.

Russell Ryan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pathology
Accepting Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Mature B-cell lymphoma, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, enhancers, transcriptional regulation, chromatin
Ziad Sabry

Ziad Sabry

Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Zong Wang, Ph.D.
Siara Sandwith

Siara Sandwith

Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
John Moran, Ph.D.
Research Interests:
transposable elements
Audrey Seasholtz

Audrey Seasholtz, Ph.D.

Biological Chemistry
Research Interests:
Molecular mediators of stress and anxiety; regulation and role of CRH, the CRH receptors and CRH-binding protein in stress; mechanisms of transcriptional regulation; transgenic mice.
Randy Seeley

Randy Seeley, Ph.D.

HK Ransom Endowed Professor
Surgery
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests
Gut-brain axis, obesity, type 2 diabetes, nutrition

JoAnn Sekiguchi, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Our lab studies mechanisms of DNA repair and how aberrant repair processes affect genomic stability, predisposition to cancer and immune system development.
Ansley Semack Conchola

Ansley Semack Conchola

MSTP Student
Year in CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Jason Spence, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Research Interests:
Using a human-based model organoid systems to recapitulate early embryonic development in vitro.
Yatrik Shah

Yatrik Shah, Ph.D.

Molec & Integrative Physiology
Research Interests
The major goal of our research program is to determine the molecular mechanisms by which oxygen sensing transcription factors regulate gastrointestinal homeostasis, inflammation and cancer.

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