Dec 5 2024

Aaron Morales Dolich presented a poster on his research program in the 2025 Biological Chemistry Master's Program Poster Session. 

Nov 23 2024

Today is Renke’s last day in the lab. Renke is headed to sunny California to start her postdoctoral research at the Stanford University! Best of luck Renke! We will miss you! 

Oct 21 2024

Henry Arthur from Biological Chemistry and Katura Metzner from Microbiology and Immunology started their rotation in our lab. Welcome Henry and Katie! 

Aug 26 2024

Kenia Contreras started her rotation in our lab. Welcome Kenia!

Aug 26 2024

Aaron Morales Dolich joined our lab as a Master student of Biological Chemistry. Welcome Aaron! 

Aug 15 2024

Dylan Parikh and Lauren Donley joined our lab as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome Dylan and Lauren!

Aug 12 2024

Tuozhan Wu joined our lab as a Master student of Pharmacology. Welcome Tuozhan! 

July 11 2024

Aarav Leekha joined the lab as a high school student summer intern. Aarav comes to our lab from Hunter College High School, a highly selective public academic magnet secondary school of New York city. Welcome Aarav! 

July 15 2024

Erika Calle Urgiles of Biological Chemistry started her rotation in our lab. Welcome Erika! 

July 5 2024

Renke successfully defended her PhD thesis "Harnessing Type I CRISPR as Robust Genome Editing Tools". Congratulations Dr. Tan! 

Apr 26 2024

Rongchen Liu graudated with a Master's degree! Rongchen will be a PhD student at the Baylor College of Medicine starting this fall. Congratulations Rongchen!

Mar 01 2024

Yan received a highly prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation! Yan's project, "Expanding and Leveraging the Natural Diversity of Type I CRISPR for Genome Engineering," will use human cell culture, high-throughput sequencing, and bacterial genetics to advance understanding of the diversity, function, and biotechnological potential of multi-subunit CRISPR-Cas systems. Congratulations to Yan for this recognition!

Feb 15 2024

Zhonggang was awarded an NIH R41 grant titled: "Developing novel Type 1 CRISPR tools for gene editing therapy". Congratulations! 

Jan 18 2024

Mason's paper "Exploiting activation and inactivation mechanisms in type I-C CRISPR-Cas3 for genome-editing applications" is published on Molecular Cell! Congratulations Mason!

Jan 10 2024

Yuwei Tang started his rotation in our lab. Welcome Yuwei!

Dec 03 2023

Xin has been awarded a highly competitive Rackham International Student Fellowship for 2023–2024! Congratulations Xin!

Aug 28 2023

Ruchi Korde and Soumik Saha started their rotation in our lab. Welcome Ruchi and Soumik!

Apr 28 2023

Ryan McMullen graduated with a Master's degree. Congratulations Ryan!

Apr 2023

Anna Wattenbach joined the lab as an undergraduate student researcher. Welcome Anna!

Apr 19 2023

Trey Gustafson won a Blue Ribbon Award at the 2023 UROP Symposium. This award is given to UROP students for having an exemplary research poster and presentation. Congratulations Trey!

Mar 2 2023

Renke has been awarded a a highly competitive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan for the 2023–24 academic year. This prestigious award supports outstanding students who have achieved candidacy and are working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful. Congratulations Renke!

Jan 4 2023

Ryan McMullen was awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant! Congratulations Ryan!

Aug 1 2022

Ryan McMullen joined our lab as a Master student of Biological Chemistry. Welcome Ryan!

Jun 8 2022

Mason has received a position in the Genetics Training Program for the 2022–2023 academic year. Congratulations Mason!

Mar 17 2022

Renke was awarded a highly competitive Barbour Scholarship from the University of Michigan for the 2022–23 academic year. This award provides recognition and funding for women of the highest academic and professional caliber from countries encompassing the region from Turkey in the west to Japan and the Philippines in the east to study science, medicine, mathematics, and other academic disciplines. Congratulations Renke!

Mar 01 2022

Mason Myers and Xin Li joined the lab as as graduate students in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program. Welcome Mason and Xin!

Feb 07 2022

Our method paper "Introducing Large Genomic Deletions in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Using CRISPR-Cas3" is featured on the cover of Current Protocols!

Jan 19 2022

Renke and Ryan's paper "Cas11 enables genome engineering in human cells with compact CRISPR-Cas3 systems" is published on Molecular Cell! Congratulations Renke and Ryan!

Jan 5 2022

Mason Myers started rotation in our lab. Mason is a graduate student in the PIBS/Biochem PhD program. Welcome Mason!

Oct 25 2021

Dana Beseiso  and Xin Li started their rotation in our lab. Dana and Xin are graduate students in the PIBS/Biochem PhD program. Welcome Dana and Xin!

Aug 30 2021

William (Will) Myers  and Jeremy Dortch started their rotation in our lab. Will and Jeremy are graduate students in the PIBS/Biochem PhD program. Welcome Will and Jeremy!

Aug 23 2021

Macy Lozen graduated with a Master's degree! Congratulations Macy!

July 21 2021

Amy Chen joined our lab as a Master student of Biological Chemistry. Welcome Amy!

July 19 2021

Jackline Onyango started her rotation in our lab. Jackline is a graduate student in the PIBS/Biochem PhD program. Welcome Jackline!

July 19 2021

Macy and Renke were awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Congratulations Macy and Renke!

April 05 2021

Noah Hooper joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Noah!

Mar 25 2021

Yan gave a talk at the 5th Annual Symposium of the Center for RNA Biomedicine titled 'Harnessing diverse CRISPR-Cas3 systems for long-range genome engineering'.

Mar 10 2021

Jarred was awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Congratulations Jarred!

Nov 1 2020

Zhonggang was promoted to Research Investigator. Congratulations!

Sep 5 2020

Macy Lozen  joined the lab as a Master student. Welcome Macy!

Aug 31 2020

Jarred Howard joined the lab as a Master student. Welcome Jarred!

Aug 13 2020

Today is the last day for Ryan Krueger. Ryan is headed to a Master's program in Mathematics at the Oxford University. Good luck Ryan!

Aug 1 2020

Yan was awarded a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35) from NIH!

July 31 2020

Renke passed her preliminary exam! Congratulations Renke!

July 10 2020

Today is the last day of Ying in the lab. We wish Ying good luck in her future endeavor!

Jun 17 2020

Yan published a commentary in the CRISPR Journal titled 'CRISPR-Cas13 as an Antiviral Strategy for Coronavirus Disease 2019'.

May 22 2020

Today is the last day of Max in our lab. Max is moving to Oregon to start a new chapter of his life. Good luck Max. We will miss you! 

May 1 2020

Anthony Lohmeier was awarded a Blue Ribbon Certificate for his outstanding poster and presentation on his research project in our lab at the virtual UROP symposium. Congratulations Anthony!

Apr 24 2020

Renke Tan joined our lab as a graduate student in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program. Welcome Renke!

Feb 12 2020

Yan gave an invited talk titled 'Long-Range Genome Engineering in Human Cells with CRISPR-Cas3' at the Keystone Meeting: Engineering the Genome.

Jan 02 2020

Yulduz Rakibova started her rotation in our lab. Yulduz is a graduate student in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program.

Dec 15 2019

Ryan Krueger graduated with a Master Degree in Bioinformatics! Ryan will stay as a researcher in the lab. Congratulations Ryan!

Dec 4 2019

Yan gave an invited talk at Cell Webinar Genome Editing: Sequencing and Innovation.

Oct 18 2019

Zhonggang gave a talk titled 'Introducing a Spectrum of Long-Range Genomic Deletions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Type I CRISPR-Cas' at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab conference, Genome Engineering: Frontiers of CRISPR/Cas.

Aug 20 2019

Renke Tan started her rotation in our lab. Renke is a graduate student in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program.

Jul 04 2019

Our perspective "Inserting DNA with CRISPR" is published on Science!

Jun 20 2019

Our paper "Biochemical characterization of RNA-guided ribonuclease activities for CRISPR-Cas9 systems." is published on Methods!

Jun 18 2019

Yan gave an invited talk titled 'Introducing a Spectrum of Long-Range Genomic Deletions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Type I CRISPR-Cas' at CRISPR 2019 international conference at Quebec Canada. 

Apr 12 2019

Max was awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant! Congratulations Max!

Apr 8 2019

Our paper "Introducing a Spectrum of Long-Range Genomic Deletions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Type I CRISPR-Cas" is published on Molecular Cell!

Jan 28 2019

Dr. Ying Liu started in the lab as a Research Specialist. Welcome Ying!

Jan 9 2019

Tina Tripathi started in the lab as an Undergraduate researcher. Welcome Tina!

Dec 15 2018

Ryan Krueger obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science! Congratulations Ryan!

Oct 24 2018

Adam Thelen, a Biochem Graduate student from Pat O'Brien's lab started his two month sabbatical in our lab studying MPG in human cells. Welcome Adam!

Oct 8 2018

Brandon Guo joined the lab through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Welcome Brandon!

Oct 2 2018

Noah McGuire joined the lab through Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars program. Welcome Noah!

Sep 18 2018

Bioinformatics Master student Ryan Krueger joined our lab. Welcome Ryan!

Aug 23 2018

Zhonggang gave a talk at the Genome Engineering : The CRISPR/Cas Revolution conference at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on RNA-guided RNA targeting by NmeCas9. It is well received!

Jun 22 2018

Yan contributed a short piece on her CRISPR inspirations for a Cell Voices article. Check it out here.

Jun 7 2018

We previewed a new article from Michael  Terns lab in the latest issue of Molecular Cell.  This new study revealed a mechanism of spacer trimming during CRISPR adaptation. 

Apr 3 2018

Beth was awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal "RNA-guided RNA targeting by NmeCas9" ! Congratulations Beth!

Jan 18 2018

Beth and Zhonggang's paper 'Programmable RNA Cleavage and Recognition by a Natural CRISPR-Cas9 System from Neisseria meningitidis' was accepted by Molecular Cell! 

Dec 21 2017

Beth received unconditional pass on her prelim exam! Congratulations Beth!

Dec 19 2017

Christine received unconditional pass on her prelim exam! Congratulations Christine!

Oct 12 2017

Jaewon Heo started in the lab as a undergraduate researcher through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Welcome Jae!

Jul 5 2017

Tyler McCullough started his summer rotation in lab. Tyler is a graduate student in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program. Welcome Tyler!

Apr 15 2017

Beth Rousseau and Christine Ziegler officially joined lab. Welcome Beth and Christine!

Mar 30 2017

Christine Ziegler was awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Christine.

Mar 6 2017

Beth Rousseau and Christine Ziegler started their rotation in lab. Both Beth and Christine are graduate students in the Biological Chemistry Graduate program.

Mar 1st 2017

Zhonggang Hou joined lab as a scientist. 

Feb 14 2017

Max Gramelspacher joined lab as a technician. Welcome Max!