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Drs. Xiao Dong and Lei Zhang have two new preprints posted on Bioarchive. Check them out! Jacob E. Bridge, Chuwei Xia, Chen Zheng, Kristian Markon, Robert F. Krueger, David Masopust, Lei Zhang,...

Dr. Xavier Revelo, Associate Professor, had a recent publication that made it to the cover of Circulation Research! Check out this article by Alex Smith in the University of Minnesota...

Dr. Christina Camell, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2025 Glenn Foundation Discovery Award by the American Federation for Aging Research. Congratulations on this well-earned achievement,...

Please welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Heidi Klezien! Heidi joined MIBAM in September of 2025 and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development. Her...

Congratulations to the winners of the contest for best talks at this year’s MIBAM Retreat!   Pictured left to right: Line Fleischer, Emma Dehm, Ann Hertzel, Mahima Devarajan, Korbyn...

MIBAM faculty, staff, and trainees attended the Annual Retreat to the IBSL Station in Itasca State Park in September of 2025. The schedule included scientific talks and team building activities...

New publication: A single-cell atlas of age-associated transcriptomic alterations across human tissues. Josh Bartz, graduate student in the Dong lab, is first author.Bartz, J., Ma, X., Zhang, L.,...

Check out this new publication in The Innovation! Dr. Lei Zhang is first author. Full pub here.  

MIBAM launched our new External Seminar Series! This is a quarterly series where faculty are invited to the Twin Cities Campus to visit the Institute and give a talk. The event will also include an...

Dr. Lei Zhang received the "Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) (R35)". The MIRA grant is funded by NIH/NIGMS for 5 years. This project is titled "...

Three of our MIBAM faculty were highlighted as Rising Stars for their achievements in the BMBB September Spotlight!  Congratulations, Drs. Doug Mashek, Christina Camell and Ming Xu! 

Jacob Bridge, graduate student in the Dong lab, received the Ray C. Anderson Award from the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development. Nice work, Jacob!

Dr. Anna Carey of the Camell lab recently accepted a position as a medical science liaison at Sanofi for their Type 1 Diabetes immunology portfolio in the MN/WI region. Congratulations on...

In Hwa (Ina) Jang, graduate student in the Camell lab, received a travel grant award at the 12th Aging Research and Drug Discovery (ARDD) Meeting. In addition to covering travel, the junior scholar...

Check out this article by Jeremy Olson in The Minnesota Star Tribune regarding the new U of M Institute for Healthy Aging which will open in 2026!

New Publication in Aging Cell: Identification of Senomorphic miRNAs in Embryonic Progenitor and Adult Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles. Dr. Tianpeng (Tim) Zhang of the Robbins lab is...

New Publication: Identification of miR-106b-5p as a senolytic miRNA. Dr. Tianpeng (Tim) Zhang of the Robbins lab is first author. Full pub here. 

Congratulations to Dr. Christina Camell for receiving the 2025 Women in AGE Scientific Achievement Award! Dr. Camell was selected from an outstanding batch of applicants for this honor, and received...

Dr. Christina Camell has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, and received two Rising Star Awards! She was awarded the Rising Star in Research and Innovation Award by...

Korbyn Dahlquist, graduate student in the Camell lab, was selected to receive the 2025 Bacaner Research Award, the 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Award, as well as the 2025 Huber Warner Fellowship, at...