The lab is awarded a “Valuing Our Own” Support for Outstanding Academic Research (SOAR) Award from the University of Michigan Medical School!

Noah, Max, and Erika present posters & Max won the Outstanding Postdoc Poster Award at the 2024 Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Newark, OH!

Arya presents a poster at the 2024 Transdisciplinary Aging Research Day Symposium at the University of Michigan!

Stephanie gives a talk at the RNA Canada ARN conference in Ottawa, Canada!

Noah gives a talk at the Genetics & Genomics student seminar series!

Noah gives a talk at the CSHL Translational Control meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY!

Annie Wang joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher!

Arya gives her 3rd year seminar at the Program in Chemical Biology fall retreat!

Max is awarded a Young tRNA Award to attend the 29th tRNA Conference!

Noah is awarded a Rackham Conference Travel Grant to attend the CSHL Translational Control meeting!

Noah is selected to give a talk at the CSHL Translational Control meeting!

Noah presents a poster and Stephanie gives a talk at the LiveLikeLou Foundation Symposium in Ann Arbor, MI!

Max gives a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation and presents a poster at the GRC in Portland, Maine!

Max presents a poster at the IRACDA conference on Maximizing Impact through Research and Teaching in Chapel Hill, NC!

Sunmin Lee joins the lab as a Research Specialist!

The lab wins the gumball guessing game for the third year in a row! Ben wins the gumball guessing game and Noah wins the water balloon toss contest at the Human Genetics Annual Picnic!

The lab is awarded an NIH equipment supplement!

Stephanie gives a talk at the UM Biological Sciences Scholars Program Symposium!

Ben is awarded a competitive Career Development Grant from the University of Michigan!

Haleigh gives her end-of-year research presentation for the UM-PREP program!

Noah gives a talk at the Friday Afternoon Seminar Series in the Department of Human Genetics!

Arya is awarded the top poster prize for her presentation at the Midwest Aging Consortium Aging Research Symposium in Columbus, OH!

Max is selected for a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation!

Noah, Imalka, and Max present posters at the Human Genetics James V. Neel Lectureship symposium at the University of Michigan!

Imalka is selected to participate in the University of Michigan Biotechnology Career Development Program!

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The lab receives a second year of funding from the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research!

Max gives an invited seminar at the Department of Biology seminar series at Eastern Michigan University!

Arya, Imalka, and Stephanie give poster presentations at the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research Symposium in Baltimore, MD!

Noah, Max, and Jingxuan present posters, and Max and Noah gave lightning talks at the UM Center for RNA Biomedicine Symposium in Ann Arbor, MI!

Jingxuan presents a poster at the Biophysical Society meeting in Philadelphia, PA!

Arya, Marc, Noah, Ben, and Stephanie present at & attend the 2024 Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone meeting at Northwestern in Evanston, IL!

Imalka is accepted into the You3 Postdoctoral Leadership & Management Program at the University of Michigan!

Nicolas graduates with a B.Sc. degree in mathematics!

Imalka gives an invited talk at the Wayne State University Department of Chemistry in Detroit, MI!

Haleigh presents at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Phoenix, AZ!

Arya earns early Ph.D. candidacy in the Program in Chemical Biology!

Stephanie gave a talk at the Midwest Symposium on Oligonucleotide Therapeutics in Indianapolis, IN!

The lab went to the Rustbelt RNA Meeting where Max gave a talk, and Arya, Noah, Imalka, & Jingxuan presented posters in Lansing, MI!

The lab attends the Department of Human Genetics Annual Retreat & Noah, Max, and Stephanie gave presentations!

Max’s abstract was selected for a talk at the upcoming Rustbelt RNA Meeting!

The lab is selected by a UM Research Scout to receive a Bold Ideas grant award!

Haleigh’s abstract was accepted for the 2023 ABRCMS conference!

Our review on the role of protein kinase R in dystonia is published!

Arya, Max, Noah, and Stephanie present at the 10th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI!

Arya is awarded a competitive Career Training in the Biology of Aging T32 Fellowship!

Dr. Prasanjali Imalka Wanigasekara Rathnayaka-Mudiyanselage joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

Patricia gives a talk on her research at the summer student symposium!

Haleigh Wooters joins the lab for her post-baccalaureate research in the University of Michigan PREP program!

Stephanie presents a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Related Motor Neuron Diseases at Les Diablerets, Switzerland!

Max’s review, “Stress granules as causes and consequences of translation suppression” is published!

Max attends the IRACDA 2023 conference in San Antonio, TX!

Noah wins the gumball guessing contest at the Human Genetics department picnic!

Noah, Jingxuan, and Stephanie present at the annual Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network conference in San Diego, CA!

Incoming postdoctoral fellow Imalka Wanigasekara is selected for the University of Michigan Neuroscience Institute Postdoctoral Advancement Program!

Patricia Woghiren joins the lab for the summer as an IRACDA undergraduate researcher!

Max gives a talk at the Friday Afternoon Seminar Series in the Department of Human Genetics!

Stephanie gives a talk at the inaugural Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Human Genetics retreat at the University of Michigan!

Imalka Wanigasekara will join the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow this fall!

Arya Menon audaciously joins the lab for her Ph.D. research in the Program in Chemical Biology!

Jingxuan is awarded a PPG Summer Research Fellowship from the University of Michigan Chemistry Program!

Max is featured in the RNA Society Member Spotlight Series!

Noah attends the EMBL practical course, ‘Measuring translational dynamics by ribosome profiling‘ in Heidelberg, Germany!

Noah gives a talk at the Friday Afternoon Seminar Series in the Department of Human Genetics!

Max gives a talk at the Department of Human Genetics Postdoctoral Symposium!

Max presents a poster at the 7th Annual RNA Symposium, “From Molecules to Medicines” at the University of Michigan!

Stephanie gives a talk at University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Seminar Series!

Stephanie presents at the Cure VCP Disease Scientific Focus Group meeting!

Stephanie presents at the Proteostasis Consortium seminar series!

Max and Stephanie present at the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research Symposium in Baltimore, MD!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Biological Sciences Department seminar series at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI!

Jingxuan passes the 2nd year Gateway Exam for the Chemistry Ph.D. program!

Stephanie gives a talk at The Ohio State University Biochemistry Seminar Series!

The lab is awarded a Pilot Project Grant from the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at the University of Michigan!

Noah advances to Ph.D. candidacy!

Noah’s review, “Is bRaQcing bad? New roles for ribosome associated quality control factors in stress granule regulation” is published!

Stephanie gives a seminar at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Tokyo RNA Club RIKEN Symposium in Japan!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Japanese Biochemical Society meeting in Nagoya, Japan!

The Moon and Walter labs were awarded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Collaborative Pairs Phase 2 grant!

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Noah presents a poster at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Los Angeles, CA!

Max and Noah attend the 2022 Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology seminar series at Michigan State University!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Stony Brook University Department of Neurobiology & Behavior seminar series!

Max gives a talk at the UM Department of Human Genetics retreat!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Columbia University Neuroimmunology Seminar Series!

Nicolas Kamel audaciously joins the lab!

Noah is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!

Noah passes his qualifying exam for the Genetics and Genomics Ph.D. Program!

Jingxuan receives the First-Year Chemistry Student poster award at the University of Michigan Karle Symposium!

The lab is awarded an R35 MIRA grant from NIH/NIGMS to study Mechanisms of Translation Regulation During Stress!

Jingxuan is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!

Jingxuan presents at the 6th Midwest Single Molecule Workshop in Omaha, NE!

Stephanie gives a talk at the ASBMB Evolution and Core Processes in Gene Expression conference at the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, MO!

Max gives a talk at the annual LiveLikeLou Emerging ALS Investigators Symposium in Phoenix, AZ!

The lab is awarded a Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins grant!

Stephanie gives a talk at the FASEB Protein Folding in the Cell conference in Dublin, Ireland!

MSTP rotation student Caroline Jipa wins the Gumball Guessing Game at the Department of Human Genetics picnic!

Noah is awarded an NIH T32 Genetics Training Program Fellowship!

Stephanie Chairs the RNP Granules and Phase Transitions Session at the RNA Society 2022 Conference in Boulder, CO!

The lab goes to the RNA Society 2022 Meeting in Boulder, CO!

Dr. Max Baymiller joins the lab as an NIH IRACDA post-doctoral fellow!

The Moon and Gerst labs were awarded a Michigan Israel Partnership for Research and Education pilot grant!

Alyssa gives a talk at the University of Michigan Neurobiology of Disease Symposium!

Stephanie chairs and gives a talk at the ‘Organizing the Cytoplasm During Stress’ session at the 2022 ASBMB meeting in Philadelphia!

Incoming postdoc Max Baymiller is awarded an NIH IRACDA fellowship!

Stephanie gives a Data Blitz talk at the 6th Annual RNA Symposium, ‘Towards the Future for RNA Therapeutics’ at the University of Michigan!

Stephanie is a panelist in the ‘Modulating the Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems’ focus session at the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network Meeting in Berkeley, CA!

The Moon Lab receives a Dystonia Medical Research Foundation award to study the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Dystonia!

Noah Helton boldly joins the lab as the inaugural graduate student!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Packard Center’s 22^nd Annual ALS Research Symposium in Baltimore, MD!

Alyssa and Stephanie’s Methods article on measuring global translation activity during stress is published!

Max Baymiller will join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow this summer!

Stephanie receives the 2021 Career Development Award from the LiveLikeLou Foundation!

The Moon and Walter labs are hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Click here for more information and to apply.

Katelyn and Stephanie present at the virtual 2021 VCP Scientific Conference!

Alyssa leads the team in writing a review article on the genetic diseases of the integrated stress response pathway!

Katelyn and Stephanie present at the 2021 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Neurodegeneration Challenge Network Meeting!

The Moon and Vogel labs receive a Neurodegeneration Challenge Network Collaboration Supplement Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative!

Alyssa is awarded a competitive Neurology T32 Fellowship!

Alyssa is selected for the University of Michigan Biotechnology Career Development Program!

Dr. Katelyn Green joins the Moon & Walter labs as a postdoctoral fellow!

Dr. Alyssa English joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow!

The Moon and Walter labs receive a Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative!