People

Lab members, collaborators and associates
Tom Wilson
Principal Investigator
Samreen Ahmed Recent News
Research Technician
Senior lab member, master of many trades, fills many roles as needed
GM147026 CNV Mechanisms Yeast DSB Repair Park et al. 2021 Wilson et al. 2023 Wilson et al. 2024
Mikael Dunn Recent News
Research Technician
Yeast biologist and geneticist exploring roles on metabolism in DNA repair
GM120767 Yeast DSB Repair
Jeanmarie Mishler Recent News
Research Technician
Technician rejoining the ranks of DNA repair scientists; handler of Penelope our new Oxford Nanopore P2 sequencer
ES034143 GM120767 Research Scouts Yeast DSB Repair Penelope P2
Alex Hawks Recent News
Postdoctoral Fellow
Working on mechanisms of structural variant formation genome wide, in particulate in BRCA-deficient cells
GM147026 CNV Mechanisms
Joey Stewart Recent News
Postdoctoral Fellow
Working toward an LGG Fellowship by learning human genomics, sequencing technologies, and bioinformatics
ES034143 GM120767 GM147026 Research Scouts CNV Mechanisms Yeast DSB Repair
Li-Ching Chen Recent News
Master's Student
Master's student in Genetics and Genomics, working on bioinformatics aspects of SV sequencing technologies
Genetics and Genomics
CNV Mechanisms
Jim Daley
Research Investigator
Our former PhD student back at Michigan to pursue collaborative DNA repair work with biochemist Dr. Patrick O'Brien
Department of Biological Chemistry
Yeast DSB Repair

Collaborators and colleagues

Tom Glover
Professor
Master cytogeneticist who discovered common fragile sites and co-leads our CNV projects
Department of Human Genetics
CA200731 CNV Mechanisms Wilson et al. 2023 Wilson et al. 2024
Mats Ljungman
Professor
Transcription-coupled DNA repair expert who branched to nascent RNA sequencing and targeted cancer therapeutics
Department of Radiation Oncology
Bru seq KLIPP Tx Bedi et al. 2024

Past members and associates

Amanda Winningham
Research Technician
Awesome help on the CNV projects when we needed it
CNV Mechanisms
Saanvi Juneja
UROP Student
Early efforts to bring spatial analysis into the Michigan Data Interface
MDI
Faraz Hassan
UROP Student
Early efforts to bring spatial analysis into the Michigan Data Interface
MDI
Pam Bennett-Baker Recent News
Research Technician
Primary contributor to Park et al., including critical studies of replication timing and R-loops
Current position: Central Biorepository (CBR), University of Michigan
CNV Mechanisms Park et al. 2021
Dominic Bazzano Recent News
Master's Student
Realized a challenging long time project in the lab to map DSB 5' resection at base-pair resolution
Genetics and Genomics Program
Current position: PhD student, Genetics and Genomics Program, U. Michigan
Yeast DSB Repair Bazzano et al. 2021
Stephanie Lomonaco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Developed our project focus on the impact of carbon source metabolism on DSB repair
Yeast DSB Repair Lomonaco et al. 2021
Sham Sunder Sharma
Postdoctoral Fellow
Examined NHEJ-dependent translocation as a function of pre-damage nuclear proximity of DSBs
Current position: Anuj Kumar laboratory, University of Michigan
Yeast DSB Repair Sunder et al. 2019 Wilson et al. 2020
So Hae (Irene) Park Recent News
PhD Student
Demonstrated that CNV formation at large genes depends on their active transcription
Genetics and Genomics Program
Current position: science writer
CNV Mechanisms Park et al. 2021
Martin Arlt
Research Investigator
Driving member of the CNV project for many years, developed key approaches for genomic analysis
Current position: Research Scientist, Jacob Mueller laboratory, Michigan
CNV Mechanisms Arlt et al. 2012 Arlt et al. 2014 Arlt et al. 2018
Zhuobin (Ben) Liang
PhD Student
Examined NHEJ as a function of overhang polarity at chromosomal DSBs
Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
Current position: Junior Principal Investigator, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China
Yeast DSB Repair Liang et al. 2016
Diane Flasch
Genetics and Genomics Program
Co-mentored with Dr. John Moran to study genomic influences on L1 retrotransposition
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, St. Jude's Children's Hospital
L1 Flasch et al. 2019
Kishore Chiruvella
Postdoctoral Fellow
Studied the impact of DNA ligase IV point mutations on NHEJ outcomes
Current position: Ramsden laboratory, University of North Carolina
Yeast DSB Repair Chiruvella et al. 2013 Chiruvella et al. 2013 Chiruvella et al. 2014