Michael Wilkinson

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Rob Mitra, PhD

Undergraduate university: Hunter College, 2015

Enrollment year: 2015

Research summary
Genetic screen of epigenetic and transcription factors that mediate the observed sex-disparity in GBM

Graduate publications
Kfoury N, Qi Z, Prager BC, Wilkinson MN, Broestl L, Berrett KC, Moudgil A, Sankararaman S, Chen X, Gertz J, Rich JN, Mitra RD, Rubin JB. 2021 Brd4-bound enhancers drive cell-intrinsic sex differences in glioblastoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 118(16):e2017148118.

Cammack AJ, Moudgil A, Chen J, Vasek MJ, Shabsovich M, McCullough K, Yen A, Lagunas T, Maloney SE, He J, Chen X, Hooda M, Wilkinson MN, Miller TM, Mitra RD, Dougherty JD. 2020 A viral toolkit for recording transcription factor-DNA interactions in live mouse tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, (Epub ahead of print): pii: 201918241.

Moudgil A, Wilkinson MN, Chen X, He J, Cammack AJ, Vasek MJ, Lagunas T Jr, Qi Z, Lalli MA, Guo C, Morris SA, Dougherty JD, Mitra RD. 2020 Self-Reporting Transposons Enable Simultaneous Readout of Gene Expression and Transcription Factor Binding in Single Cells. Cell, 182(4):992-1008.e21.

Lalli MA, Langmade SJ, Chen X, Fronick CC, Sawyer CS, Burcea LC, Wilkinson MN, Fulton RS, Heinz M, Buchser WJ, Head RD, Mitra RD, Milbrandt J. 2020 Rapid and extraction-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 from saliva by colorimetric reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification. Clin Chem, ():hvaa267.

Qi Z, Wilkinson MN, Chen X, Sankararaman S, Mayhew D, Mitra RD. 2017 An optimized, broadly applicable piggyBac transposon induction system. Nucleic Acids Res, 45(7):e55.