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Mir Laboratory
The goal of the Mir Lab is to comprehend and manipulate the interplay between nuclear organization, transcription regulation, and gene expression patterns during cell-fate determination in developing embryos. We use a combination of advanced imaging technology, biophysical modeling, genomics, and gene editing. We are also especially interested in the interactions between the disordered regions of proteins and their role in driving functional nuclear organization. We develop and utilize new microscopy technologies and analysis tools that allows us to probe and bridge the broad range of spatial and temporal scales involved in gene regulation during embryonic development, ranging from single molecule kinetics at nanometer scales to patterning across embryos at millimeter scales.
Lab Life Video Series: Mir Laboratory
By developing and applying advanced microscopy technologies, researchers in the Mir Lab are exploring limitless avenues of discovery when it comes to improving our understanding of gene regulation during embryonic development and beyond. See the Mir Lab evolve both physically and conceptually in this Lab Life video.
Our vision is to utilize quantitative data in combination with mechanistic modeling to develop new strategies to specifically manipulate nuclear organization and transcriptional regulation to achieve desired phenotypes. The insights gained through these projects will not only lead to an improved understanding of one of life’s fundamental processes - transcription - but also has the potential to lead to new technologies for treating conditions associated with aberrant gene expression.
We are building an interdisciplinary team of biologists, engineers, physicists, and computer scientists.
- Do you love mind-blowing microscopy?
- Are you interested in unveiling the molecular level details of how embryos are patterned?
- Are you fascinated by disordered proteins?
- Do you want to help build a quantitative framework to describe and manipulate gene expression?
Leader
Mustafa Mir, PhD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Mir develops and applies advanced fluorescence microscopy and single molecule imaging methods to study the dynamics of nuclear organization and transcriptional regulation during early embryonic development.