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About
Michael J. McConnell, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. from the University of California – San Diego in 2004. His doctoral research included one of the first reports of mosaic somatic mutations in the brain. As a Crick-Jacobs Junior Fellow at the Salk Institute, Mike developed single-cell approaches to study brain somatic mosaicism further. This led to the first publications of mosaic copy number variants in human neurons (CNV neurons) and RNA sequencing from single neuronal nuclei. Mike’s laboratory at the University of Virginia School of Medicine began collaborating with LIBD in 2014 as part of the NIMH-funded Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network. This work led to the surprising finding that CNV neurons are selectively vulnerable to aging. Mike joined LIBD in 2020. His laboratory develops single-cell approaches to map how brain somatic mosaicism changes during aging and neurodegenerative disease.
Curriculum Vitae
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Publications
Chronister WD, Burbulis IE, Wierman MB, Wolpert MJ, Haakenson MF, Smith ACB, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM, Weinberger DR, Bekiranov S, McConnell MJ. Neurons with Complex Karyotypes Are Rare in Aged Human Neocortex. Cell Rep. 2019 Jan 22;26(4):825-835.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.12.107. PubMed PMID: 30673605; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6942668.
Grindberg RV, Yee-Greenbaum JL, McConnell MJ, Novotny M, O’Shaughnessy AL, Lambert GM, Araúzo-Bravo MJ, Lee J, Fishman M, Robbins GE, Lin X, Venepally P, Badger JH, Galbraith DW, Gage FH, Lasken RS.RNA-sequencing from single nuclei. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 3;110(49):19802-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319700110. Epub 2013 Nov 18. PubMed PMID: 24248345; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3856806.
McConnell MJ, Lindberg MR, Brennand KJ, Piper JC, Voet T, Cowing-Zitron C, Shumilina S, Lasken RS, Vermeesch JR, Hall IM, Gage FH. Mosaic copy number variation in human neurons. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):632-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1243472. PubMed PMID: 24179226; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3975283.
Rehen SK, McConnell MJ, Kaushal D, Kingsbury MA, Yang AH, Chun J. Chromosomal variation in neurons of the developing and adult mammalian nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Nov 6;98(23):13361-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.231487398. PubMed PMID: 11698687; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC60876.