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Miriam Meisler

Miriam Meisler, Ph.D.

Human Genetics
Research Interests:
We are studying the molecular basis of neurological disorders using mouse models of epilepsy, movement and behavioral disorders. This work has enabled us to identify several human disease mutations.
Ram Menon

Ram Menon, MD

Pediatrics
Research Interests:
The development of diabetic kidney disease and understanding the mechanisms underlying the role of growth hormone in the causation of certain chronic complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Daniel Michele

Dan Michele, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Muscular dystrophy, muscle, cardiomypathy, disease modeling
Ann Miller

Ann Miller, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Cell-cell junctions, cytokinesis, RhoGTPases, mechanobiology, live microscopy
Jason Miller

Jason Miller, MD, Ph.D.

James Grosfeld Professor and Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Research Interests:
Age-related macular degeneration, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), induced pluripotent stem cells and primary culture, metabolism and lipid biology, lysosome and autophagy
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Richard Miller

Richard Miller, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Cell biology of aging, anti-aging drugs, stress response, autophagy, cap-independent translation
Stephanie Moon

Stephanie Moon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Faculty Scholar of the Center for RNA Biomedicine
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Translation, integrated stress response, RNA Biology, stress granules, neurological disease
John Moran

John Moran, Ph.D.

Gilbert S. Omenn Collegiate Professor of Human Genetics
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Mobile Genetic Elements; Human Genome structure, function, and evolution; molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training
Aaron Morris

Aaron Morris, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest
biomaterials; synthetic biology; autoimmunity; inflammation
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Richard Mortensen

Richard Mortensen, MD, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Mol. Integ. Physiol
Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance, inflammation, metabolic disorders and associated cardiovascular disease.
Jacob Mueller

Jacob Mueller, Ph.D.

Human Genetics
Assistant Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Sex chromosomes, spermatogenesis, large palindromes, selfish genes
Martin Myers

Martin Myers, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Internal Medicine
Director of the Michigan Diabetes Research Center and the Caswell Diabetes Institute
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training
Research Interests:
hypothalamus, brainstem, obesity, diabetes, leptin
Jayakrishnan Nandakumar

Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Intercultural Training, Self-Identified: International, Person of Color, South Asian, Indian
Research Interests:
Telomerase, Telomeres, Meiosis, Cancer, Stem cells.
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Rachel Niederer

Assistant Professor
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
RNA Biology, mRNA translation, gene expression, noncoding RNAs
Lab Website
Pat O'Brien

Patrick O'Brien, Ph.D.

Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, CMB DEI Month Book Club, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Leadership Training, Conflict Management Training, MORE Mentor Training, Engaged Mentor Training
Research Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair, replication, and mutagenesis. Biochemical, biophysical and cellular studies of dynamic protein-DNA interactions
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Mary O'Riordan

Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests:
Cellular stress, host-microbe interactions, innate immunity, immunometabolism, mitochondria
Lab Website
Faculty Profile
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Melanie Ohi

Melanie Ohi, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Research Interests:
pathogenesis, cryo-EM, structural biology, membrane proteins
Puck Ohi

Ryoma "Puck" Ohi, Ph.D.

Cell and Developmental Biology
Research Interests
The R. Ohi laboratory uses live cell imaging and reconstitution biochemistry to understand how MTs are organized and remodeled during cell division.
Akira Ono

Akira Ono, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Intercultural Training, Bystander Training, I am a Rackham Faculty Ally for Diversity and a previous Lead of the DEI Committee for my home department
Research Interests:
virus assembly; virus entry; protein trafficking; protein-RNA interaction; protein-membrane interaction
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
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
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
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
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Manoj Puthenveedu, MBBS, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmacology
Lab Website
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Training and Identities:
MORE Committee Member, NRMN Trained Facilitator, HHMI Gilliam and CIMER Mentor training, Implicit Bias, Allyship, Gender Bias, Anti-Racism, Disability Awareness, Intercultural Development Inventory
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
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

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