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
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.
December 16, 2023
2023 Lab Holiday Party
University of Michigan Medical School · May 11, 2023
Improving and Scaling Techniques in Both Molecular and Computational Labs with NIH Support
Ryan Mills is co-PI on a NIH Common Fund grant (Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network) to develop improved molecular and computational methods for detecting somatic mosaicism across human tissues and life stages.