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Welcome to the Ono Lab at the University of Michigan Medical School!
Welcome to the Ono Lab at the University of Michigan Medical School!
The Ono lab studies the roles played by cellular structures in the life cycle of enveloped viruses including HIV-1 and influenza A virus.
The Ono lab studies the roles played by cellular structures in the life cycle of enveloped viruses including HIV-1 and influenza A virus.
Our lab provides a research and training environment in which highly motivated and talented individuals work side by side regardless of their background and share the enthusiasm for basic science research while treating each other with respect and kindness.
We look forward to mentor students and postdocs who are dedicated to research excellence, share our values in mutual help and understanding, and are willing to contribute to a community conducive to exciting discoveries!
A postdoctoral position
A postdoctoral position
is available for a highly motivated individual with a strong background in cell biology, molecular biology, and/or virology and research interests that match ours. If interested, please send CV and names of 3 references to: Email: akiraono@umich.edu
For those interested in conducting PhD thesis research in our lab: Our lab is a part of the University of Michigan umbrella program called PIBS. Please see the PIBS websites (e.g., here or here) for more information.
NEWS
05/2026 Ricardo gave a talk (remotely), and Rajat and Cristina gave poster presentations at 2026 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good jobs, all!05/2026 Matthew Williams is selected to join NIH T32 Genetics Training Program! Congratulations!!! 05/2026 Katy Valente, mentored by Rajat and Kai-Neng, graduated with Bachelor of Science in Microbiology! Congratulations!!! 03/2026 Rajat Mudgal gave an Invited Talk at 2026 UM RNA Symposium. Good job!
02/2026 Kai-Neng completed his tenure in our lab, leaving us many new directions of research. Good luck with your new endeavor!
07/2025 Ricardo Cardoso gave a talk, and Chris Nieves gave poster presentations at 2025 ASV meeting. Good jobs, all!
07/2025 Ricardo's K99/R00 grant got funded! Congratulations!!!!!
06/2025 The paper Tomoyuki Murakami wrote as first author with Ricardo and Kai-Neng as coauthors has been published in PNAS! Congratulations!
05/2025 Ricardo Cardoso gave a talk, and Rajat Mudgal and Chris Nieves gave poster presentations at 2025 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good jobs, all!
05/2025 Matthew Williams, 1st year UM PhD student, joined the lab for his thesis research. Welcome aboard!
04/2025 Breana Santos gave a talk on her work, mentored by Ricardo Cardoso, at the UROP Symposium and was awarded the Best Presentation award! Congrats, Breana!
04/2025 Nolan Rivera presented his work, mentored by Rajat Mudgal and helped by Kai-Neng Chou, at the UROP Symposium and received a Blue Ribbon! Congrats, Nolan!
04/2025 The paper Ricardo Cardoso wrote as first author with Tomoyuki Murakami as second author has been published in Science Advances! Congratulations!
03/2025 Cristina Santos da Costa, PhD, joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome back and welcome aboard, Cristina!
10/2024 Bia completed the 12-month collaboration with us. All the best for your thesis work!
07/2024 Tomoyuki has started his own lab as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the East Carolina University Medical School. Congratulations! It's a bitter sweet moment for the rest of us, but we wish you the best for your success!
06/2024 Ricardo Cardoso gave a Workshop talk, and Ana Beatriz (Bia) dos Anjos Souza gave a poster presentation at 2024 ASV meeting. Good jobs, both!
05/2024 Rajat Mudgal gave a talk, and Tomoyuki Murakami and Ricardo Cardoso gave poster presentations at 2024 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good jobs, all!
04/2024 Chris Nieves, 1st year UM PhD student, joined the lab for his thesis research. Welcome aboard!
12/2023 Glaucia completed the 6-month collaboration with us. All the best for your thesis work!
11/2023 Ana Beatriz (Bia) dos Anjos Souza, a PhD student from the Osako lab in the University of Sao Paulo, joined the lab for a 12-month collaboration project. Welcome aboard, Bia!
11/2023 Kai-Neng Chou joined the lab to work as research technician for Tomoyuki's R21 project. Welcome aboard!
09/2023 Cristina completed the 12-month collaboration with us. We will keep in touch! 08/2023 Tomoyuki's R21 grant got funded! This is his first NIH grant. Congratulations!!!!!
07/2023 Glaucia Maria Almeida, a PhD student from the Sebollela lab in the University of Sao Paulo, joined the lab for a 6-month collaboration project. Welcome aboard, Glaucia!
05/2023 Ricardo Cardoso gave a talk, and Tomoyuki Murakami, Rajat Mudgal, and Cristina Santos da Costa gave poster presentations at 2023 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good job, all!
05/2023 Our undergrad Vicky Wang has graduated from U-M with Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. Congratulations, Vicky!
12/2022 We won the third place and donuts (!) in the Departmental Door Decoration Contest!
10/2022 Cristina Santos da Costa, a PhD student from the Lamberti da Silva lab in the University of Sao Paulo, joined the lab for a 1-year collaboration project. Welcome aboard, Cristina!
08/2022 The paper Sukhmani Bedi wrote as first author and Rajat Mudgal and Amanda Haag as coauthors on a molecular determinant in influenza A virus's susceptibility to macrophage-specific inhibition of particle assembly has been accepted to Journal of Virology! Congratulations, Sukhmani, Rajat and Amanda!
07/2022 Our collaborative R01 program with the King lab and J.Swanson lab within the department to study the roles played by macropinocytosis in ofHIV-1 infection of CD4+ T cells has started. Yay!
07/2022 The 5-year extension period of our R37 program to study mechanisms that determine the subcellular sites of HIV-1 Assembly has started. More excitement on this topic to come!
05/2022 Tomoyuki Murakami gave a talk, and Rajat Mudgal and Ricardo Cardoso gave poster presentations at 2022 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good job, all!
01/2022 Chris Sumner defended his PhD thesis successfully! Congratulations, Dr. Sumner!
12/2021 The paper Chris Sumner wrote as first author has been published in Journal of Molecular Biology! Congratulations, Chris!
10/2021 The review article Tomoyuki Murakami wrote as first and corresponding author has been published in Current Opinion in Virology! Congratulations!
09/2021 The review article Tomoyuki Murakami wrote as first and corresponding author has been published in Viruses! Congratulations!
07/2021 Rajat Mudgal gave a short talk at 38th American Society for Virology meeting. Good job, Rajat!
05/2021 Tomoyuki Murakami, Dishari Thornhill, and Chris Sumner gave poster presentations at 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Good job, all!
12/2020 Ricardo de Souza Cardoso has joined the lab this time as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome back, Ricardo!
10/2020 Rajat Mudgal has joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome aboard, Rajat!
07/2020 Dishari Thornhill defended her PhD thesis successfully! Congratulations, Dr. Dishari!
07/2020 The review article Dishari Thornhill wrote as first author with Tomoyuki Murakami as second author has been published in Viruses! Congratulations!
06/2020 We are gradually coming back to the lab...
05/2020 Our undergrad Nancy Carmona has graduated from U-M with Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. We had an online celebration for Nancy. Congratulations, Nancy!
03/2020 Due to the COVID-19 situation, the lab is closing down...
02/2020 The paper Tomoyuki Murakami wrote as first author with Nancy Carmona as second author has been accepted to PNAS! Congratulations!
10/2019 Tomoyuki Murakami gave a platform presentation at Midwest Virology Symposium 2019. Chris Sumner and Dishari Thornhill did poster presentations. Good job, all!
09/2019 The paper Dishari Thornhill wrote as first author has been accepted to Journal of Virology! Congratulations!
09/2019 Tomoyuki Murakami has been promoted to Research Investigator. Congratulations!
08/2019 Dishari Thornhill was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 11th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid Protein and Assembly Symposium. Congratulations!
08/2019 Tomoyuki Murakami's abstract selected for a short talk at the Midwest Virology Symposium. Additionally, Tomoyuki was given a travel award. Congratulations!
07/2019 Our R21 proposal on the roles played by PSGL-1, CD43, and CD44 in HIV-1 spread is funded! Yay!
05/2019 Tomoyuki Murakami gave a platform presentation at 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Chris Sumner and Dishari Thornhill did poster presentations. Good job, all!
03/2019 Sukhmani Bedi defended her PhD thesis successfully! Congratulations, Dr. Bedi!
01/2019 The review article Sukhmani Bedi wrote as first author has been published in Viruses! Congratulations!
12/2018 Our R21 proposal on cell-specific inhibition of influenza assembly is funded! Yay!
09/2018 The paper Sukhmani Bedi wrote as first author has been accepted to mBio! Congratulations!(Published 11/2018)
07/2018 Chris Sumner has been awarded the NIH F31 NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship! Congratulations!
07/2018 Sukhmani Bedi gave a workshop talk at 37th American Society for Virology meeting. Good job!
05/2018 Dishari Mukherjee gave a platform presentation at 2018 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting. Tomoyuki Murakami and Chris Sumner did poster presentations. Good job, all!
05/2018 The paper Tomoyuki Murakami wrote as first author has been accepted to Nature Communications! Congratulations! (Published 06/2018)
11/2017 Dishari Mukherjee has been awarded the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant! Congratulations!
07/2017 The R01 we just got renewed has been chosen for the NIH/NIAID MERIT Award!
06/2017 We have successfully renewed our R01 program to study mechanisms that determine the subcellular sites of HIV-1 Assembly! Yay!
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