Michael Buszczak, Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Professor Endowed Title E.E. and Greer Garson Fogelson Scholar in Medical Research; Lillian B. and Tom B. Rhodes Professorship in Stem Cell Research School Medical School Department Molecular Biology Graduate Programs Cancer Biology, Genetics, Development and Disease Education Graduate School Yale University (2002), Biology Research Interest Chromatin mRNA Translation Ribosomes RNA Stem Cells Publications Featured Publications A programmed decline in ribosome levels governs human early neurodevelopment. Ni C, Wei Y, Vona B, Park D, Wei Y, Schmitz DA, Ding Y, Sakurai M, Ballard E, Li L, Liu Y, Kumar A, Xing C, Qin S, Kim S, Foglizzo M, Zhao J, Kim HG, Ekmekci C, Karimiani EG, Imannezhad S, Eghbal F, Badv RS, Schwaibold EMC, Dehghani M, Mehrjardi MYV, Metanat Z, Eslamiyeh H, Khouj E, Alhajj SMN, Chedrawi A, Ramzan K, Hashmi JA, Alluqmani MM, Basit S, Veltra D, Marinakis NM, Niotakis G, Vorgia P, Sofocleous C, Lee H, Jeong WC, Umair M, Bilal M, Alves CAPF, Sieber M, Kruer M, Houlden H, Alkuraya FS, Zeqiraj E, Greenberg RA, Cenik C, Yu L, Maroofian R, Wu J, Buszczak M, Nat Cell Biol 2025 Aug 27 8 1240-1255 Bourbon and Mycbp function with Otu to promote Sxl protein expression in the Drosophila female germline. Mercer M, Dasgupta A, Pawlowski K, Buszczak M, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2025 Apr 122 15 e2426524122 Labeling of heterochronic ribosomes reveals C1ORF109 and SPATA5 control a late step in human ribosome assembly. Ni C, Schmitz DA, Lee J, Pawlowski K, Wu J, Buszczak M, Cell Rep 2022 Mar 38 13 110597 The Drosophila ribosome protein S5 paralog RpS5b promotes germ cell and follicle cell differentiation during oogenesis. Jang S, Lee J, Mathews J, Ruess H, Williford AO, Rangan P, Betrán E, Buszczak M, Development 2021 Sep GCNA Preserves Genome Integrity and Fertility Across Species. Bhargava V, Goldstein CD, Russell L, Xu L, Ahmed M, Li W, Casey A, Servage K, Kollipara R, Picciarelli Z, Kittler R, Yatsenko A, Carmell M, Orth K, Amatruda JF, Yanowitz JL, Buszczak M, Dev. Cell 2019 Dec Repression of Pumilio Protein Expression by Rbfox1 Promotes Germ Cell Differentiation. Carreira-Rosario A, Bhargava V, Hillebrand J, Kollipara RK, Ramaswami M, Buszczak M Dev. Cell 2016 Mar 36 5 562-71 Nanotubes mediate niche-stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis. Inaba M, Buszczak M, Yamashita YM Nature 2015 Jul Cellular Differences in Protein Synthesis Regulate Tissue Homeostasis. Buszczak M, Signer RA, Morrison SJ Cell 2014 Oct 159 2 242-251 Lsd1 restricts the number of germline stem cells by regulating multiple targets in escort cells. Eliazer S, Palacios V, Wang Z, Kollipara RK, Kittler R, Buszczak M PLoS Genet. 2014 Mar 10 3 e1004200 Changes in rRNA transcription influence proliferation and cell fate within a stem cell lineage. Zhang Q, Shalaby NA, Buszczak M Science 2014 Jan 343 6168 298-301 Results 1-10 of 28 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards BlackStone LaunchPad Pitch Competition Winner (2022) SCCC Translational Pilot Award (2021) UTSW High Impact/ High Risk Award (2018) Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award (2009) Endowed ScholarE.E. and Greer Garson Fogelson Scholar in Medical Research (2007) Professional Associations/Affiliations Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine (2014) Genetics Society of America
