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Who We Are

Esse quam videri

8200

Total Days in Lab

6

Humans

22

Days above 5000ft

 Lodestar 

Thinking about the role that mRNA regulation plays in stress and disease.
Eating Mexican food in Spain?!

RNA Biology

95%

Cooking

85%

Posing for Photos

10%

Hiking

95%

Speaking Spanish

45%

Nacho Parties

100%

Stephanie Moon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Human Genetics
Faculty Scholar | Center for RNA Biomedicine
Affiliate Faculty | Biological Chemistry
Affiliate Faculty | Biomedical Engineering
Biological Sciences Scholar | UM
Neuroscience Scholar | UM
Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affiliate | UM
Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design | UM
Rogel Cancer Center | UM

Postdoctoral Fellows

Is there DNA in here?
Sick photo op

Outreach

100%

TV

10%

Sarcasm

100%

Self Promotion

30%

Houseplants

60%

Enchilada Parties

100%

Max Baymiller, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow | NIH IRACDA Fellow
Department of Human Genetics
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
Co-Director of Acronyms

Graduate Students

Are my cats getting along?
Thinking about how to better measure translation dynamics…

Trail Mix

90%

Cooking

35%

Cats

100%

Tomatoes

10%

Free Samples

100%

Hot Pot Karaoke Parties

100%

Noah Helton

Ph.D. Candidate | Genetics & Genomics
M.S. Student | Bioinformatics
Genetics Training Program Fellow

How does VCP affect stress granules?
Try all kinds of bubble tea in the world!

Piano

85%

Arts

75%

Sports

5%

Cats

100%

Cooking

90%

Sushi Parties

100%

Jingxuan Tang

Ph.D. Candidate | Chemistry
Co-advisor Nils Walter

What are the mechanisms of proteostasis?
Can’t wait to go skydiving!

Staycations

80%

Horror Movies

98%

Not Blinking in Photos

10%%

Roller Coasters

90%

Paneer Parties

100%

Crew

Thinking about how to make the lab a better place to do research.
Paradise found?

Bins

99%

Front End WebDev

5%

Eating

75%

Debating

65%

Pasta Parties

100%

Benjamin Dodd

Research Scientist | Human Genetics
Cereal Entrepreneur | Lab Intrapreneur
Determined Cloner | Distractable Coder
Decent Lab Hands | Good Jazz Hands
Co-Director of Acronyms | New Lab Veteran