University of Michigan Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics
The Mills Lab
A bioinformatics research group exploring genomic structural variation in human health and disease.
Recent News
Michigan Medicine · October 1, 2026
Mills Lab: Discovery Research Week, 2026
Video feature on the Mills Lab for Michigan Medicine's Discovery Research Week, highlighting how the lab's work understanding the genetic causes of disease drives future breakthroughs.
September 14, 2026
Viral Integration Review Published in Frontiers in Oncology
December 13, 2025
2025 Lab Holiday Party
Scientific American · January 3, 2025
Jumping 'Numts' from Mitochondria Can Be Fast and Deadly
Coverage of the discovery that DNA fragments from mitochondria (numts) can rapidly insert into the human genome and accumulate in brain tissue, potentially affecting lifespan.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · August 22, 2024
Mitochondria Are Flinging Their DNA into Our Brain Cells
Coverage of the PLOS Biology study, co-led with Columbia University, showing that mitochondrial DNA insertions accumulate in the brain over a lifetime and are linked to earlier mortality.