SMS conference!
We attended the Prisms, Inc. annual conference for Smith-Magenis Syndrome. Thank you to PRISMS for hosting this meeting bringing together...
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Jun 101 min read
KARES conference!
We attended the first KDM5C Family & Science Conference hosted by the KARES foundation. What a special time to connect with researchers,...
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iwaselab
May 311 min read
Welcome, Max!
We warmly welcome Maxwell Miyasato to our lab. Max is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
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iwaselab
Dec 1, 20231 min read
Katie graduated!
Congratulations to Neuroscience PhD student Katie Bonefas for successfully defending her thesis! Katie's research on KDM5C revealed new...
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iwaselab
Sep 29, 20231 min read
KDM5C 5K race 2023!
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 &...
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iwaselab
Sep 20, 20231 min read
Farewell, Takao!
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...
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iwaselab
Jun 28, 20231 min read
Katie receives student innovator award!
Congrats to Neuroscience PhD student Katie Bonefas on earning the Neuroscience Graduate Program's Student Innovator Award!
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iwaselab
Jun 4, 20231 min read
Hamza graduated!
Congratulations to Hamza Islam for graduating from the Genetics & Genomics MS program! His research focused on understanding mechanisms...
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iwaselab
May 31, 20231 min read
Welcome, Sehj!
Sehj Rai is an undergraduate student in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. She will be studying the evolution of PHF21A with...
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iwaselab
May 31, 20231 min read
Welcome, Jackie!
Jackie Kim is an undergraduate student in Neuroscience. She came to our lab with ideas for her own project! Jackie noticed that...
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iwaselab
May 31, 20231 min read
Welcome, Yiannos!
Yiannos Demetriou is an undergraduate student from the School of Engineering. He will be working with Masa on PHF21A and understanding...
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iwaselab
Oct 18, 20221 min read
KDM5C 5K race with KARES!
The KARES foundation organized a virtual 5k event October 8-9, 2022. Our lab was honored to join the 250+ participants from around the...
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iwaselab
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Cecilia joins the lab!
We are thrilled to welcome Cecilia Gavilan to the lab as a predoctoral student! Cecilia is pursuing her PhD in Genetics & Genomics. She...
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iwaselab
Aug 16, 20221 min read
Masayoshi joined the lab!
We welcome Masayoshi to our lab as a postdoc researcher. He earned his PhD of Medicine from Tohoku University in Japan, Graduate School...
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iwaselab
May 18, 20221 min read
Bobby graduated!
Congratulations to our first MSTP student Bobby Porter on his graduation from the University of Michigan MD-PhD program, and matching the...
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iwaselab
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Rare Disease Day 2022
Our lab had the honor of organizing some of the University of Michigan's Rare Disease Day 2022 virtual meeting. In addition to the...
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iwaselab
Sep 21, 20211 min read
New review paper published!
A review by Katie Bonefas, Neuroscience PhD student, examines how impaired germline gene repression by chromatin regulators may lead to...
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iwaselab
May 11, 20211 min read
Sophia joins the lab!
Sophia Rightmer joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. She majors in cello and applies her musical talents to research. Welcome,...
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iwaselab
Apr 29, 20211 min read
Bradley graduated!
Genetics & Genomics MS student Bradley Cutler graduated! Bradley's research centered on histone reader protein PHF21A. He will continue...
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iwaselab
Apr 28, 20211 min read
KDM5C Registry is now live
In our effort to better understand KDM5C-related disorder, we created the KDM5C Registry: https://redcap.link/KDM5C-registry Our mission...
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