Chromatin Neurobiology Lab

Christina submitted a photo of one of her dissections to the Rackham Graduate School's "Eye On Research" graduate student research photo...

Christina's work describes a novel mutation in KDM5C in a male with autism & intellectual disability. We found altered gene regulatory...

Shigeki and Christina were both selected to present talks at the Neuroepigenetics & Neuroepitranscriptomics meeting in Cancun, Mexico....

We welcomed Takao Tsukahara to our lab by making him eat his first burger in the US! He is a joint post-doctoral fellow with our lab and...

Halloween fun in the Iwase lab - our grad students dressed as a nucleosome! Christina is H3K4me3, Katie is H4, Bobby is mac(b)roH2A, and...

The Iwase lab grew a little bigger this summer! Visiting PhD student Kanako Oyama (Baba lab, Tsukuba University, Tokoyo, Japan) joined us...

Exciting collaboration with the Kalantry lab!

Bobby is awarded an F30 NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship from NINDS to study isoforms of PHF21A in neurodevelopment. Congrats, Bobby!

We found LSD1 is required for enhancer homeostasis. The manuscript is uploaded and discussed in bioRxiv.

Bobby's first paper describes nicely controlled experiments!

Christina is awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Autism Science Foundation for her research on histone demethylase KDM5C and...

Christina is awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship from Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan for her thesis research and...

First year Giselle joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher studying the biochemistry of RAI1!

Happy Halloween from the Iwase lab! (Our grad students are dressed as a Pokemon trainer, Barb from Stranger Things, and a Super Enhancer)

Bobby and Christina presented posters at the American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. View from the...

Tricia attended and presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Synaptic Transmission in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire....

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Christina attended and presented a poster at the EMBO/FEBS Chromatin and the Environment Summer School in Spetses, Greece.

Bobby attended and presented a poster at the Van Andel Research Institute Epigenomics course in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Margarete was awarded a grant from the Honors College for $300, which covers the use of the confocal microscope at the MIL for an entire...