The lab attends the UM RNA Symposium where Noah presents a poster and Stephanie gives a talk!

Rachel and Stephanie attend the Packard Center for ALS Research Conference in Baltimore, MD!

The lab attends the Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone meeting at Northwestern University, where Arya gives a talk, Erika, Noah, and Rachel present posters, Stephanie gives a flash talk & chairs a session, and Arya’s image is chosen for the cover of the meeting booklet!

Our manuscript, ‘tRNA synthetase activity is required for stress granule and P-body assembly’ is accepted for publication at Genes & Development!

Stephanie is invited by the graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences program at the University of South Carolina to give a talk!

Erika is selected for a Career Training in the Biology of Aging T32 fellowship!

Noah receives the Outstanding Graduate Student Talk Award at the Rustbelt RNA meeting!

Erika, Rachel, and Noah attend the Rustbelt RNA meeting where Noah gives a talk in Huron, OH!

Arya is nominated by the Program in Chemical Biology for a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!

Stephanie’s abstract is selected for a talk at the ASCB Cell Bio 2025 meeting!

Noah is selected for a talk at the Rustbelt RNA Meeting in Huron, OH!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Molecular Biosystems Conference on Eukaryotic Gene Regulation & Functional Genomics in Puerto Varas, Chile!

The Moon lab is over-represented in the top 2 teams in the Laboo Championship at the Biological Chemistry retreat!

Erika presents a poster & Stephanie gives a talk at the Biological Chemistry retreat at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station!

Noah is selected to give a talk at the Department of Human Genetics Retreat!

Stephanie gives a seminar at the University of Colorado, Boulder!

Arya presents a poster at the fall Program in Chemical Biology retreat!

The lab is featured by the Center for RNA Biomedicine and the UM Michigan Medicine Health Lab for our publication “Ribosome association inhibits stress-induced gene mRNA localization to stress granules”!

Noah attends the Optical Microscopy & Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences workshop at the Marine Biological Laboratory!

Rachel receives the “Most Stressed” award for her work on the stress response at the 2025 M.D./Ph.D. student retreat!

Noah is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!

Stephanie gives a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Related Motor Neuron Diseases in Portland, Maine!

We wish Max the best of luck as he moves on to his Visiting Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry position at Wesleyan University!

Erika is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!

Arya gives a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar and a flash talk & poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Stress Proteins in Growth, Development, and Disease in Newry, Maine!

Arya is awarded a UM Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Travel Grant to give a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar on Stress Proteins in Growth, Development, and Disease!

Arya is selected to give a flash talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Stress Proteins in Growth, Development, and Disease!

Arya is awarded a Rackham Conference Travel Grant to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Stress Proteins in Growth, Development, and Disease!

Arya presents a poster at the 2025 Geriatrics Research Center Symposium at the University of Michigan!

Noah’s paper is published at Genes & Development! 

Erika advances to candidacy in the Biological Chemistry Ph.D. program!

Rachel Kim daringly joins the lab for her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry!

Arya is selected to give a talk at the 2025 Stress Proteins in Growth, Development, and Disease Gordon Research Seminar!

Noah’s paper is accepted for publication at Genes & Development!

The lab is highlighted in this year’s edition of RNA Translated!

Noah gives a selected talk, Max & Noah present posters, and the lab attends the University of Michigan RNA “From Sequence to Solutions” Symposium in Ann Arbor, MI!

Erika Calle Urgiles intrepidly joins the lab for her Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry!

Noah presents a poster and Stephanie gives a talk at the 25th annual Packard Center for ALS Conference in Baltimore, MD!

Arya is awarded the Margaret Ayers Host Award for her exceptional scholarly achievement, sense of social responsibility and service, and lively interest in promoting the success of women in the academic community!

Noah is selected to give a talk at the 2025 University of Michigan RNA Symposium!

Jane gives a selected talk at the Biophysical Society conference in Los Angeles, CA!

Arya presents her research at the Career Training in the Biology of Aging seminar series!

Arya gives a flash talk & poster, Noah & Jane present posters, and Annie, Ben, and Stephanie attend the Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Conference at Northwestern in Evanston, IL!

Arya is selected to give a flash talk at the Midwest Stress Response and Molecular Chaperone Conference in Evanston, IL!

Arya is selected as the Program in Chemical Biology nominee for the  Susan Lipschutz, Margaret Ayers Host, and Anna Olcott Smith Awards!

Stephanie gives a talk and Max gives a poster presentation at the 29th tRNA Conference in Kanazawa, Japan!

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

Jane 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, & Jane 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, Jane, 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!

Jane 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!

Jane 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!

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join the team! For more information and to apply click here!

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!

Jane 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!

Jane is awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant!

Jane 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!