Research Assistant Professor at U-M Life Sciences Institute and Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, U-M Medical School, University of Michigan
Michael Cianfrocco's lab focuses on the structural biology and biophysics underlying microtubule-based intracellular transport, defects in which can result in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases. His lab uses a combination of high-resolution cryo-EM and single-molecule techniques to investigate transporting of motor-cargo complexes.

Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize
Oct 05, 2017 03:29 am UTC| Science
Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson had won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing this...