LSI faculty member explores potential role of RNA in Huntington’s disease, with a philanthropic award
Researchers are pursuing a new potential culprit underlying Huntington’s disease, with an award from the Klatskin-Sutker Discovery Fund.
STEM Connector
A summer fellowship at the LSI prepares Michigan undergrads for the next leg of their STEM journey
Mapping Cellular Traffic
LSI scientists explore the complex cellular supply chain, how it works and what happens when it's disrupted
LSI Cubed funds new round of trainee-initiated, multi-lab research projects
Four teams of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will soon launch their own cross-lab, interdisciplinary projects, with funding from the LSI Cubed program.
Applications open for annual hands-on cryo-EM data workshop
The University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute will lead a five-day cryo-electron microscopy workshop in June to introduce participants to common image processing software packages.
Biosciences Initiative invests $45M in U-M research
Three ground-breaking LSI projects are among the University of Michigan projects to be funded in the first round of investments from the Biosciences Initiative.
Written in the ‘stars’: scientists offer new model of vital cellular process
Researchers shed new light on a fundamental cellular process — the formation of asters, star-shaped microtubule structures within cells that help cells to divide properly.
Scientists get hands-on experience with cryo-EM data tools at U-M workshop
Thirty-five academic and industry scientists from across the country got hands-on experience with the latest cryo-electron microscopy image processing tools at a recent workshop led by the LSI.
LSI to lead four-day cryo-EM workshop
The LSI will lead a four-day cryo-electron microscopy workshop in June to introduce participants to common image processing software packages.
Video: What's cryo-EM and how is it revolutionizing biology?
U-M has one of the top cryo-EM labs in the country — learn more about how this technology is revolutionizing biology and how U-M is using it to study things like neurodegenerative diseases and bacterial infections.
Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
LSI faculty members Michael Cianfrocco and Melanie Ohi explain the technology that won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
LSI welcomes new faculty member
The welcomes structural biologist Melanie Ohi, Ph.D., to its faculty.