Peter K Todd MD/PhD Lab @Umich. We study how short tandem repeats impact neuronal function and human disease. Ataxia, ALS/FTD, Fragile X/FXTAS, CANVAS.
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined April 2018
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AANs across the journey—from student to research fellow to intern…#aanam @AANmember #cerrahpasa #umich @realToddLab @VCU_IMRes @VCUNeuro
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🗣📢REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 10th Annual RNA Symposium, March 6-7, 2026! 🧬RNA Frontiers: From Mechanisms to Medicine. Celebrate a decade of innovative RNA science and medicine @UMich. For more information, visit rna.umich.edu/events-navigat… @umichmedicine @realToddLab #UMichRNA
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Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting - Short Tandem Repeats in Gene Regulation and Disease @CSHANews csh-asia.org/?content/2754
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Stand Up For Science DC #StandUpForScience
Science will not be silenced
ALT View of gathering crowd for science across reflecting pool
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Thank you NIH funded basic science
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
go.nature.com/4i9BpEx
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A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb.
go.nature.com/4i9BpEx
Todd Lab @UM retweeted
Sharing a symposium on #RareDiseaseDay that will be held at the Kellogg Eye Center Auditorium.
RSVP using this link: forms.gle/K5siWBAtgrUU2PEd9
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NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal experts say is illegal.
Federal Register notices are blocked so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details in @Nature
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Last night my brilliant friend with 20 years of expertise in Neuroscience including a decade at NIDA was fired because she was recently promoted for her outstanding performance and it triggered the probation period.
This is not making NIH more efficient, this is not making us healthier, this is not punishing the people who misled the public, this is destroying America’s talent.
Her work is instrumental for testing whether new medications to fight addiction are safe and efficacious before they are tested in humans. now that research is at risk.
She was the backbone of the lab the most senior person. So much knowledge, talent, know how, wasted, so much science destroyed for the wrong reason.
Sigh…
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🏥 At @umichmedicine , patients receive world-class care thanks to our commitment to research, education, and clinical excellence.
🔬 Cutting-edge discoveries🎓 Training future medical leaders❤️Compassionate, expert care
See how we’re making a difference: youtu.be/E95QcEKacHg
Todd Lab @UM retweeted
It’s like saying you’re going to save money on a football team by cutting all the linemen.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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The NIH 15% cap on indirect costs will kneecap biomedical research in the US.
Without essential infrastructure, there will be:
Staff cuts
Lab closures
Fewer research projects
Less scientific progress
Loss of talent
The US will no longer lead scientific & medical innovation.
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What an incredible honor to be the inaugural recipient of this endowed chair! Thank you David and Weezie Reese for your unwavering support of our research!!
We are proud to announce that David and Weezie Reese have established the David and Weezie Reese Chair for Neurodegeneration Research in the Department of Translational Neuroscience. Renowned Barrow scientist Rita Sattler, MSc, PhD, has been named the inaugural chair!
ALT David and Weezie Reese, Rita Sattler, MSc, PhD
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Finally out!
Here we show that SARS-CoV-2 N protein binds to cellular stress granule proteins G3BP1/2, not only to block SGs, but also to facilitate the efficient translation of viral mRNAs.
Fantastic work by doctoral student Siwen Long!
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Our preprint uncovering how endogenous retrovirus-like proteins reshape fundamental stress granule features is now online! So many awesome discoveries, the coolest being virus-like particles within stress granules! Cryo-CLEM work was led by Martin from @s_mosalaganti lab 1/8
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Delighted to share our latest work: CUG-repeat RNA toxicity in Myotonic dystrophy predisposes the liver to fatty liver disease and drug metabolism defects
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-5…
Thanks to @MDAorg @nih @czbiohub
@MCB_Illinois @UofIllinois @folajimi_adez @haneuibae @UllasChembazhi
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How is the start-codon selected for translation ?
@iaincheeseman and colleagues suggest that cells globally control stringency of translation initiation.
Low-efficiency initiation sites are preferentially repressed in mitosis, suggesting roles during the mammalian cell cycle.
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m6A-mediated epi-transcriptomic dysregulation underlies synaptic dysfunction in fragile X syndrome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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How can you not smile at this photo of one Nobel Laureate from @UMassChan, Craig C. Mello, PhD, taking a selfie with another, Victor R. Ambros, PhD? Dr. Ambros was named the co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology on Oct. 7. #NobelPrize @NobelPrize @UMass
ALT Clockwise from left: Rosalind “Candy” Lee, Victor R. Ambros, PhD, Fen-Biao Gao, PhD, and Craig C. Mello, PhD