News
January 10, 2023
Coming back from a nice long break, Emily Slobodenyuk is rotating with us from CMB.
December 8, 2023
For Sam's end of rotation we went and traversed the whole world at Decode's Escape room in Ann Arbor.
November 3, 2023
Chase and Brittany went to Sendai, Japan for the NRF2 meeting. We got to see Brittany's posdoc mentor Ben Major and collaborator Luke Chen.
October 31, 2023
The lab dressed up for Halloween again and had some spooky snacks with the Neiderer lab!
Picture taken by Sam-missing is Kayla
October 27, 2023
The lab went to Lansing Michigan for the 25th annual RNA Rustbelt meeting. Memorable events included us all wearing out Capybara lab shirts and Kira winning a poster award!
October 23, 2023
We are excited to have Sam Wheeler is rotating with us from CMB. She will be working on the NRF2 project in the lab.
October 17, 2023
We had a successful lab clean up and to celebrate went to HopCat, where we heckled the poor trivia dude.
Photo Credit-Brittany
September 8 , 2023
Chase and Brittany went to the Biological Chemistry retreat which was held at Maumee Bay and had a cute racoon as a mascot. Lots of good talks and posters, including a fun (and hilarious) ice breaker event ran by Chase.
September 1, 2023
The lab celebrated its 2-year anniversary by having some donuts and then going to Plate for sushi. Here's hopefully to a few more years!
August 24, 2023
The lab would like to welcome Cyd Martin who is joining our group as a Master's student in Biological Chemistry!
August 21, 2023
We are excited to announce Jae Bucknor joining the lab through CMB! She will be working on the NRF2 lncRNA project.
July 28 , 2023
To celebrate Shannon being in the lab we all went to Isalita for tasty tacos and then to Downtown Home and Garden to look at some potential plant friends. It was so great having you in the lab and we are so proud of you!
July 5, 2023
To celebrate Jae's rotation, we had a fun game night playing Jack Box games and having some tasty snacks.
June 8, 2023
Today the lab went to Island Park to have a picnic with the Freddolino and Giessen lab. There was a lot of food, funny banter, and an epic game of Cube! We are hoping to make this a yearly event!
Picture of the game of Cube in progress. Lara from the Freddolino lab came back from the edge of defeat to beat Chase!
June 1, 2023
Today the lab welcomed Jae Bucknor for a rotation! She will be working on the LncRNAs in lung cancer project in the lab.
April 28, 2023
Congratulations to Shannon for completing her Masters! We are excited to keep her for a few more months to continue working on her lncRNA project.
April 14, 2023
Shannon gave a great talk at the Master's program symposium on her project regarding LncRNAs in lung cancer. Congrats to all of the Masters students!
April 7, 2023
1st Annual March Mammal Madness with the Neiderer lab! Several members of both labs filled out brackets and Rachel Neiderer won having the Wolverine going all the way! (ChatGPT failed miserably, go Team Humans!)
February 24, 2023
The lab went out for tea and Bao to celebrate Zhiying's rotation! We played Mysterium with Chase being the ghost. The owner of Tea Haus was so happy we were playing board games she posted a picture of us on their Facebook.
Photo credit-Tea Haus
January 26, 2023
Lab went out to lunch and enjoyed the beautiful Ann Arbor winter!
Snowballs were exchanged over-the-air.
January 4, 2023
After a nice winter break and New Years, the lab welcomed Zhiying Yang to the lab for a rotation!
December 16, 2022
Kira and Brittany decorated the lab for winter!
December 9, 2022
To celebrate another successful rotation and everyone finishing up classes and presentations Brittany made the lab (and the department) a number of cookies! We then went Axe throwing! And to finish up a fun day we enjoyed some food from Hop Cat.
October 31, 2022
The lab wore costumes on Halloween and enjoyed some cookies and candy.
October 28, 2022
To celebrate almost everyone submitting grants and fellowships as well as Giselle choosing to rotate with us, the lab went out for tacos!
October 24, 2022
Today we welcomed Giselle Flores as a rotation student today! She will be jump starting RNA-Protein proteomics in the lab.
September 16, 2022
The biochemistry department had their first in person retreat at the Kellogg Biological Station after a few years and we were excited to go as a lab. We all got to hear some great talks, see some fantastic posters, play some volleyball/Kub, and generally enjoy our time there. Brittany saved a frog from an umbrella even.
September 8, 2022
Picture day in the Biological Chemistry Department. Our lab featured in the newsletter!
Brittany was photographed doing actual research, while Chase and Shannon were only pretending to use the LICOR.
September 1, 2022
The lab is officially a year old!! We went for sandwiches at Zingerman's to celebrate.
Photo Credit-Wikipedia
August 29, 2022
The lab welcomed Shannon Stein as a new Master's student to the group. She went to CMU and is originally from New Mexico.
August 3, 2022
After watching Kate give her practice talk for the REU Closing symposium, we all went to Avalon in downtown for a well deserved brunch. We had a great summer with Kate and are really proud of her!
Photo Credit-Ann Arbor Observer K. Downie
August 2, 2022
The lab went to Of Rice and Men to celebrate Kira getting on the Chemistry-Biology Interface training grant!
They even took a video of us for their promotional material! Of Rice & Men
Afterwards we got some tasty ice cream from Blank Slate Creamery!
July 7, 2022
The lab went axe throwing to celebrating the end of Kayla's rotation and deciding to join the lab! We are super excited to have Kayla!
Enjoy this gif of Chase and Kayla getting double bullseyes!!
June 30, 2022
Lab Minions! Cookie Friday came early this week due to the holiday weekend. Brittany made some silly minions themed cookies
June 1, 2022
Welcome to our summer REU student Kate! She is visiting from St. Olafs in Minnesota and is originally from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
May 31, 2022
Chase, Brittany, and Kira went to the 27th Annual RNA Society meeting in Boulder, CO. Got to see a lot of neat science, catch up with old friends, and made some new ones!
Here is one of Chase's new friends, who comforted Chase after he found out the ice cream store was closed.
May 11, 2022
Welcome to our new rotation student Kayla Lenshoek!
May 2, 2022
We are very excited to announce that Kira Holton has decided to join our team. She will be working in collaboration with the Koutmou lab to understands rules and consequences of pseudouridiylation modifications in human RNAs.
April 15, 2022
Congrats to Rosemary for successfully finishing her masters program! We are very proud of her and all of the work that she put in! Her next endeavors include working as a clinical coordinator here at the university in a rheumatology division and applying to medical schools. We wish her all of the best!
March 25, 2022
Chase gave a data blitz talk at the 6th annual RNA symposium today. There were some great talks and we look forward to next year's symposium!
March 17, 2022
Chase and Brittany got to participate in a Zingerman's baking with the Masters Students (including Rose!). We learned how to make homemade strudel which has the fun process of slapping the dough on the counter and then stretching it on the table before filling and folding.
Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures but both savory and sweet strudels were awesome!
February 24, 2022
To celebrate another round of great rotations, we again went to do an escape room. In a medical themed room of "Save Tony" Sydney, Kira, and Meredith lead the way in helping us successfully picking the correct antivenom.
February, 2022
Our first undergraduate, Meredith Holm joins the lab!
January 28, 2022
Today we got our LI-COR machine in and Kira and Sydney helped with the unpacking with Chase supervising.
January 5, 2022
Welcome to our new rotation students, Kira and Sydney!
December 17, 2021
To celebrate our first rotation students, we all went out to an Escape Room! We successfully traversed the world in 80 days and got some sweet souvenirs too on our "travels".
Thanks for such a fun rotation period!
December 1, 2021
We are continuing to get our equipment and supplies in. Mason and Jackline helped a bunch with unpacking!
October 25, 2021
We have rotation students! Welcome Jackline and Mason!
October 11, 2021
Slowly planning and building up the lab. Here is Chase unboxing the MiniAmp Thermocycler! And Brittany unboxing some lab essentials.
We are assisting with updating the new tissue culture room that we will be using once it is complete!
September 1, 2021
An RNA lab welcomes Rosemary Gedert, a master's student, to the lab!
September 1, 2021
Hello (RNA) World! An RNA Lab is established at the University of Michigan.
We are excited to bring cutting edge technologies for understanding RNA structure and RNA-Protein interaction networks to the Department of Biological Chemistry, the Center for RNA Biomedicine, and the Rogel Cancer Center.
February 24, 2023
The lab went out for tea and Bao to celebrate Zhiying's rotation! We played Mysterium with Chase being the ghost. The owner of Tea Haus was so happy we were playing board games she posted a picture of us on their Facebook.
Photo credit-Tea Haus
December 8, 2023
Making gingerbread science benches with the Niederer and Moon labs.