Chromatin Neurobiology Lab

Work lead by Robert Porter, PhD, MSTP and Human Genetics student, uncovered how members of the LSD1 demethylase complex display...

Postdoc Masayoshi Nagai, PhD, lead this work. PHF21A is a histone-binding protein that recognizes unmethylated histone H3K4, the reaction...

We attended the Prisms, Inc. annual conference for Smith-Magenis Syndrome. Thank you to PRISMS for hosting this meeting bringing together...

We attended the first KDM5C Family & Science Conference hosted by the KARES foundation. What a special time to connect with researchers,...

We warmly welcome Maxwell Miyasato to our lab. Max is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.

Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Katie Bonefas for successfully defending her thesis! Katie's research on KDM5C revealed new...

Race day is here and our lab is ready! We are proud to support the KARES Foundation 5K race weekend and KDM5C research. Learn more &...

This week we bid farewell to our postdoc Dr. Takao Tsukahara. Takao was a postdoc with our group as well as the Sutton lab. He studied...

Congrats to Neuroscience PhD student Katie Bonefas on earning the Neuroscience Graduate Program's Student Innovator Award!

Congratulations to Hamza Islam for graduating from the Genetics & Genomics MS program! His research focused on understanding mechanisms...

Sehj Rai is an undergraduate student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She will be studying the evolution of PHF21A with...

Jackie Kim is an undergraduate student in Neuroscience. She came to our lab with ideas for her own project! Jackie noticed that...

Yiannos Demetriou is an undergraduate student from the School of Engineering. He will be working with Masa on PHF21A and understanding...

The KARES foundation organized a virtual 5k event October 8-9, 2022. Our lab was honored to join the 250+ participants from around the...

We are thrilled to welcome Cecilia Gavilan to the lab as a predoctoral student! Cecilia is pursuing her PhD in Genetics & Genomics. She...

We welcome Masayoshi to our lab as a postdoc researcher. He earned his PhD of Medicine from Tohoku University in Japan, Graduate School...

Congratulations to our first MSTP student Bobby Porter on his graduation from the University of Michigan MD-PhD program, and matching the...

Our lab had the honor of organizing some of the University of Michigan's Rare Disease Day 2022 virtual meeting. In addition to the...

A review by Katie Bonefas, Neuroscience PhD student, examines how impaired germline gene repression by chromatin regulators may lead to...

Sophia Rightmer joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. She majors in cello and applies her musical talents to research. Welcome,...