News & Publications | Bazzi Lab

August 2025

• Congratulations Praise Joel for passing the PhD candidacy exam!
• Welcome Evelyn Chiu, as a rotation student!
• Yang Ma join us as an undergraduate volunteer, welcome!

June 2025

Congratulations Lisa and Hiro, both selected as oral presenters at the Gordon Research Seminar/Conference on Epithelial Keratinization and Differentiation in Ventura, California 

May 2025

• Congratulations to Lisa and Hiro, both selected as oral presenters and recipients of travel awards at 2025 SID Annual Meeting (Society for Investigative Dermatology), San Diego, California (May 7–10, 2025)!

Hiro’s talk: “The Wnt-inhibitor Dkk4 is Required for Hair Follicle Initiation and Patterning.”

Lisa’s talk: “Striatin-Interacting Protein 1 (STRIP1) stabilizes cytoskeletal organizers to ensure barrier formation and planar cell polarity in the skin epidermis”

April 2025

• Welcome Praise Joel, our first PhD student at U-M!
• Lisa Wirtz, PhD, joins us as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome, Lisa!

February 2025

• New review published: Charlotte Meyer‐Gerards and Hisham Bazzi. “Developmental and tissue-specific roles of mammalian centrosomes.” FEBS J 2025 Feb;292(4):709-726.

December 10, 2024

• Congratulations Lisa Wirtz, PhD!

Lisa successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Investigating the mechanisms of skin epidermal stratification and barrier formation during mouse skin development”. We are proud of your accomplishment!

November 2024

• We are delighted to welcome Oluseanu Oyekanmi, an undergraduate volunteer.

October 2024

• Welcome Floridona Pepkolaj, as a master’s student intern from Germany.

August 2024

• Welcome Praise Joel and Claudia Wang our first rotation students!
• Taylor Hoard joins our lab as a temporary postdoctoral fellow, welcome!

July 2024

• Welcome Jinhui Liao, PhD, our Laboratory Manager!
• Congratulations Charlotte Meyer-Gerards, PhD!

Charly successfully defended her PhD thesis. We wish you the best in your future endeavors!

May 13, 2024

• Welcome Hirofumi Teshima, PhD, our first postdoc at U-M!

February 2024

• Marta Grzonka’s paper is published in eLife! “Mouse SAS-6 is required for centriole formation in embryos and integrity in embryonic stem cells.” eLife 2024 Feb 26:13:e94694.
• Kamakshi Bichu joins the lab as a Research assistant! Welcome!

15th April 2023 - Pia Richter – joins the lab as our new energetic technician! Welcome Pia!

22nd November 2022 - Dr. Marta Grzonka – defended her PhD thesis with flying colors! Congratulations!

10th August 2022 - Max Knörrich, M.Sc. – Congratulations Max on the successful MSc thesis defense!

15th January 2022 - Max Knörrich, B.Sc. – joins the lab as an MSc candidate, welcome!

16th March 2021 - Taim Nassr, B.Sc. - Congrats to Taim Nassr who successfully defended his Bachelor thesis!

10th July 2020 - Dr. Charlotte Meyer-Gerards - Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Meyer-Gerards on splendidly defending her PhD thesis!

4th May 2020 - Lisa Wirtz - is our new PhD student! Welcome on board!

24th April 2020 - Dr. Cally Xiao - Congratulations to Dr. Cally Xiao on successfully defending her PhD thesis!

17th March 2020 - Miriam Mack, M.Sc. - Congrats to Miriam Mack who successfully defended her Master thesis!

7th February 2020 - Dr. Mareike Damen - Congratulations to Dr. Mareike Damen! Our first PhD student successfully defending her PhD thesis!

1st September 2019 - Charlotte Meyer-Gerards - joins us as a PhD student: Welcome on board!

15th October 2018 - Miriam Mack - Our first master’s student begins the journey!

1st January 2018 - Hae-Na Choi - New helping hands and spirit!

1st May 2017 - Marta Grzonka - joins us as a PhD student with remarkable enthusiasm!

1st March 2017 - Houda Khatif - Our first Postdoc takes on a new challenge!

1st November 2016 - Monia Al Areeqi - is an international guest intern in our group.

15th May 2016 - Mareike Damen - is a new PhD student: Welcome on board!

1st September 2015 - Our newly hired Lab Manager Ekaterina Soroka - will give the lab a new look!

15th July 2015 - Our first PhD Student Cally Xiao - joins the lab and opens the boxes!

1. Grzonka, M. and Bazzi, H. (2024). Mouse SAS-6 is required for centriole formation in embryos and integrity in embryonic stem cells, eLife, 13, e94694. PMID: 38407237.
2. Khatif, H. and Bazzi, H. (2023). Generation and characterization of a Dkk4-Cre knock-in mouse line. Genesis, e23532. PMID: 37435631.
3. Damen, M., Wirtz, L., Soroka, E., Khatif, H., Kukat, C., Simons, B.D., Bazzi, H. (2021). High proliferation and delamination during skin epidermal stratification. Nat Commun, 12(1), 3227. PMID: 34050161.
4. Xiao C.*, Grzonka M.*, Meyer-Gerards C., Mack M., Figge R., Bazzi H. (2021). Gradual centriole maturation associates with the mitotic surveillance pathway in mouse development. EMBO Rep, 22(2), e51127. PMID: 33410253.
5. Xiao, C., Nitsche, F. & Bazzi, H. (2018). Visualizing the node and notochordal plate in gastrulating mouse embryos using scanning electron microscopy and whole mount immunofluorescence. J Vis Exp, (141). PMID: 30474633.
6. Bazzi, H.#, Soroka, E., Alcorn, H., Anderson, K.V.#. (2017). STRIP1, a core component of STRIPAK complexes, is essential for normal mesoderm migration in the mouse embryo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 19;114(51), E10928-E10936. # Co-correspondence. PMID: 29203676.
7. Insolera, R.*, Bazzi, H.*, Shao, W., Shi, S.H., Anderson, K.V. (2014). Cortical neurogenesis in the absence of centrioles. Nat Neurosci, 17 (11), 1528-35. * Co-authorship. PMID: 25282615.
8. Bazzi, H. and Anderson K.V. (2014). Acentriolar mitosis activates a p53-dependent apoptosis pathway in the mouse embryo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111 (15), E1491-500. PMID: 24706806.
9. Bazzi, H., Demehri, S., Potter, C.S., Barber, A.G., Awgulewitsch, A., Kopan, R. & Christiano, A.M. (2009). Desmoglein 4 is regulated by transcription factors implicated in hair shaft differentiation. Differentiation, 78(5), 292-300. PMID: 19683850.
10. Bazzi, H., Fantauzzo, K.A., Richardson, G.D., Jahoda, C.A. & Christiano, A.M. (2007). The Wnt inhibitor, Dickkopf 4, is induced by canonical Wnt signaling during ectodermal appendage morphogenesis. Dev Biol, 305(2), 498-507. PMID: 17397822.
11. Bazzi, H., Fantauzzo, K.A., Richardson, G.D., Jahoda, C.A. & Christiano, A.M. (2007). Transcriptional profiling of developing mouse epidermis reveals novel patterns of coordinated gene expression. Dev Dyn, 236(4), 961-70. PMID: 17330888.
12. Bazzi, H., Getz, A., Mahoney, M.G., Ishida-Yamamoto, A., Langbein, L., Wahl, J.K. 3rd & Christiano, A.M. (2006). Desmoglein 4 is expressed in highly differentiated keratinocytes and trichocytes in human epidermis and hair follicle. Differentiation, 74(2-3), 129-40. PMID: 16533311.
13. Bazzi, H., Kljuic, A., Christiano, A.M. & Panteleyev, A.A. (2004). Intragenic deletion in the Desmoglein 4 gene underlies the skin phenotype in the Iffa Credo "hairless" rat. Differentiation, 72(8), 450-64. PMID: 15606503.
14. Kljuic, A., Bazzi, H., Sundberg, J.P., Martinez-Mir, A., O'Shaughnessy, R., Mahoney, M.G., Levy, M., Montagutelli, X., Ahmad, W., Aita, V.M., Gordon, D., Uitto, J., Whiting, D., Ott, J., Fischer, S., Gilliam, T.C., Jahoda, C.A., Morris, R.J., Panteleyev, A.A., Nguyen, V.T. & Christiano, A.M. (2003). Desmoglein 4 in hair follicle differentiation and epidermal adhesion: evidence from inherited hypotrichosis and acquired pemphigus vulgaris. Cell, 113(2), 249-60. PMID: 12705872.

See more articles at PubMed

1. Meyer-Gerards, C. and Bazzi, H. (2024). Developmental and tissue-specific roles of mammalian centrosomes. FEBS J, 292(4):709-726. PMID: 38935637.
2. Bazzi, H. & Anderson, K.V. (2014). Centrioles in the mouse: cilia and beyond. Cell Cycle, 13(18), 2809. PMID: 25486466.
3. Bazzi, H. & Christiano, A.M. (2007). Broken hearts, woolly hair, and tattered skin: when desmosomal adhesion goes awry. Curr Opin Cell Biol, 19(5), 515-20. PMID: 17951043.