Rare Disease Day 2021
Our lab celebrated Rare Disease Day 2021 by hosting a virtual call with 14 KDM5C families and researchers from the Secombe lab. Thank you...
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Human Genetics Department
Ann Arbor, MI, 48108
Email: siwase@umich.edu
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iwaselab
Jan 30, 20211 min read
New research paper published!
In our latest paper, we investigate the KDM1a gene (also known as LSD1) and its role as a regulator of transcription at enhancers. We...
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iwaselab
Jan 19, 20211 min read
New LSD1 paper published!
Out this month is our latest paper showing KDM1A (aka LSD1) maintains optimal enhancer activity by counterbalancing H3K4 methylation at...
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iwaselab
Nov 25, 20201 min read
Tricia graduated!
Neuroscience PhD student Patricia Garay successfully defended her thesis! Tricia's work revealed new mechanisms of RAI1 in neuronal...
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iwaselab
Aug 17, 20201 min read
New RAI1 paper published!
Our latest work on RAI1 was published! This project was lead by PhD student Tricia Garay, collaboration with the Sutton lab and Jones...
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iwaselab
Jun 7, 20201 min read
Bradley joins the lab!
We are happy to welcome Bradley Cutler to the lab! Bradley joins us as a Master's student in Genetics and Genomics. He will be working on...
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iwaselab
Jun 2, 20201 min read
New KDM5C paper published!
Our latest paper shows a functional relationship between KDM5C and KMT2A in mice, providing a proof of principle for balancing a single...
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iwaselab
May 31, 20201 min read
Bo joins the lab!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Bo Zhu to the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Bo completed his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Science and...
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iwaselab
Mar 25, 20201 min read
Bobby Graduated!
Bobby successfully defended his theses and became Dr. Porter! He is moving on to the next phase of his MD-PhD training at the University...
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iwaselab
Feb 29, 20201 min read
Rare Disease Day 2020
It was our honor to attend the first-ever gathering of KDM5C families at the Rare Disease Day 2020 event at Albert Einstein College of...
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iwaselab
Aug 20, 20191 min read
Dr. Vallianatos Graduated!
Christina, now Dr. Vallianatos, is Genomics Educator in the Education Department of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in...
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Shigeki
Aug 9, 20191 min read
Ayo found something interesting about KDM5C in summer research!
Ayomiposi (Ayo) Adewakun worked for two month in the lab via Hunter College/NYU’s NIH R25 BP-ENDURE program. He found something cool...
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iwaselab
Sep 13, 20181 min read
Yu (Celine) Chou, sophomore undergrad researcher, joins Iwase lab!
After a successful summer expressing RAI1 peptides in insect cells, Celine officially joins the lab. She is on her way to discovering...
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iwaselab
Jul 19, 20181 min read
Christina wins Excellence in Service Award
Christina won the Excellence in Service award from the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for her role in founding and directing...
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iwaselab
May 24, 20181 min read
Bobby receives Brewer Award
Bobby received the Department of Human Genetic's George J. & Lucia F. Brewer Scholarship, awarded to a student pursuing an MD PhD degree...
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iwaselab
May 2, 20181 min read
Welcome, Katie!
We warmly welcome Katie Bonefas, PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, to the lab!
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iwaselab
Apr 18, 20181 min read
Liam presents a poster and is awarded a Scholarship!
Liam (on the right), a freshman in the lab, presented a poster on the expression dynamics of PHF21A at the UROP symposium. He also...
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iwaselab
Apr 5, 20181 min read
Award winning brains
Christina submitted a photo of one of her dissections to the Rackham Graduate School's "Eye On Research" graduate student research photo...
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iwaselab
Apr 4, 20181 min read
New paper on KDM5C published
Christina's work describes a novel mutation in KDM5C in a male with autism & intellectual disability. We found altered gene regulatory...
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iwaselab
Feb 28, 20181 min read
Neuroepigenetics meeting
Shigeki and Christina were both selected to present talks at the Neuroepigenetics & Neuroepitranscriptomics meeting in Cancun, Mexico....
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