Faculty: all

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, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology

%20alnawaz@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Genetic basis of therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma and identification of therapeutic targets that reverses resistance to standard of care therapies.

Jorge Ruas

Professor of Pharmacology

Research Interests:

Exercise, Skeletal muscle, Metabolism, Mental Health, Inter-organ Communication

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Mark Russell, MD

Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases

mruss@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Dr. Russell is studying mechanisms of cardiac and skeletal myofibril assembly, alignment and structural support.

Russell Ryan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pathology

rjhryan@umich.edu

Accepting Students?

Yes

Research Interests:

Mature B-cell lymphoma, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, enhancers, transcriptional regulation, chromatin

Audrey Seasholtz, Ph.D.

Biological Chemistry

aseashol@umich.edu

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, 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

sekiguch@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Our lab studies mechanisms of DNA repair and how aberrant repair processes affect genomic stability, predisposition to cancer and immune system development.

Yatrik Shah, Ph.D.

Molec & Integrative Physiology

shahy@umich.edu

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.

Jordan Shavit, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics

Henry and Mala Dorfman Family Professor

jshavit@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Research Interests:

hematology, zebrafish, genome editing, genetics, modifier genes

Kanakadurga Singer, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

ksinger@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Possibly

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Change It Up!, Intercultural Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training

Research Interests:

Research in the Singer lab is focused on understanding the influence of diet-induced obesity on hematopoiesis and the generation of activated macrophages that lead to metabolic disease.

Janet Smith, Ph.D.

Department of Biological Chemistry

Accepting new students?

Yes

Research Interests:

protein structure-function, antiviral proteins, virulence factors, biosynthetic enzymes

Alan Smrcka, Ph.D.

Professor

Pharmacology

Accepting new students?

Yes

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Anti-Racism Training, Intercultural Training, Disability Awareness Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training

Research Interests:

G protein coupled receptor signal transduction in physiology and disease.

Scott Soleimanpour, MD

Internal Medicine

ssol@med.umich.edu

Research Interests

All forms of diabetes share the common etiology of insufficient insulin release from pancreatic islet beta cells to meet peripheral insulin demand.

Jason Spence, Ph.D.

Department of Internal Medicine

spencejr@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Stem cells, developmental biology

Chelsey Spriggs, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

cspriggs@umich.edu

Research Interest

DNA viruses, virus-host interactions, nuclear biology, intracellular transport

Lauren Surface, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School of Dentistry

Accepting New Students?

Yes

Research Interests:

Molecular responses of osteogenic cells, drug mechanisms of action, endocrinology

Andrew Tai, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

andrewwt@umich.edu

Accepting New Students?

Trainings and Identities:

Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Bystander Training

Research Interests:

virus-cell interaction, positive-strand RNA viruses, flaviviruses, cell biology of RNA virus infeciton

Gregory Tall, Ph.D.

Pharmacology

gregtall@umich.edu

Research Interests:

G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) activate heterotrimeric G proteins to control myriad signaling pathways and physiological processes.

Alice Telesnitsky, Ph.D.

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

ateles@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Research Interests:

Retroviruses RNA HIV epigenetics

Peter Todd, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Neurology

petertod@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, member, Recruitment and Retention Committee, Neurology

Research Interests:

Nucleotide Repeat expansions; protein translation; neurodegeneration; RNA biology; ALS/FTD; Ataxia.

Ray Trievel, Ph.D.

Biological Chemistry

rtrievel@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Our laboratory is interested in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying chromatin modifications that regulate gene expression and other chromatin-associated functions.

Matthias Truttmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

mtruttma@med.umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Trainings and Identities:

Implicit Bias Training, Intercultural Training

Research Interests:

The Truttmann laboratory studies molecular chaperone functions in the context of proteostasis, aging and aging-associated diseases

Billy Tsai, Ph.D.

Corydon Ford Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

btsai@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Research Interests:

Virus-host interactions, protein quality control, endoplasmic reticulum.

Sarah Veatch

Professor, Biophysics

sveatch@umich.edu

Research Interest

Cell membranes, single molecule imaging, cell signaling, phase separation

Accepting New Students?

Yes

Sriram Venneti, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology-Department of Pathology

svenneti@umich.edu

Research Interests

The aims of our research are to understand the core mechanisms that drive brain cancers such as diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas( DIPG) and ependymomas in children, as well as gliomas in adults.

Kristen Verhey, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

kjverhey@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training

Research Interests:

Cytoskeleton, intracellular trafficking, microtubules, kinesin motor proteins, cilia

Nils Walter, Ph.D.

Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry

Biophysics & Biological Chemistry

Founding Co-Director, Center for RNA Biomedicine

nwalter@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Intercultural Training, Bystander Training

Research Interests:

The Walter group studies the cellular and molecular biology of ubiquitous non-coding RNAs

Zhong Wang, Ph.D.

Professor of Cardiac Surgery

zhongw@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Trainings and Identities:

MORE Mentor Training, Everyday Bias in Healthcare (through OHEI)

Research Interests:

Heart regeneration using a combination of stem cells, small molecules, bioengineering, and large animal models.

Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biological Chemistry

Accepting New Students?

Yes

Research Interests:

RNA structure, noncoding RNA, RNA-binding proteins, regulation of gene expression

Lois Weisman, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

lweisman@umich.edu

Accepting new students?

Yes

Research Interests:

We seek to understand essential cellular processes — using cultured neurons, cell lines and yeast — in order to shed new light on neurodegeneration, cancer and other diseases.

Stephen Weiss, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine

sjweiss@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Normal as well as neoplastic cell populations remodel the extracellular matrix by regulating the expression of complex gene programs that control cell motility, proteolytic activity, proliferation.

Megan Weivoda, PhD

Periodontics and Oral Medicine

mweivoda@umich.edu

Research Interests:

The mechanisms by which multi-nucleated osteoclasts stimulate osteoblastic bone formation in order to identify therapeutic targets to promote bone formation in aging and cancer-induced bone disease.