Michael McManus's Biography

Michael McManus, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco

Michael T. McManus obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where he studied RNA editing in the laboratory of Stephen L. Hajduk. He did his postdoctoral training as a Cancer Research Institute fellow, in thelaboratory of Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studying the role of RNA-interference pathways in mammals. He has a long-standing interest in post-transcriptional gene regulation and the role of small RNAs in gene expression. Dr. McManus is appointed as an Associate Professor in the University of California San Francisco, in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and directs a laboratory focused on understanding the roles and mechanisms of small RNA activity in the mammalian system. At UCSF he runs a Virus Core and is the Director of the WM Keck Center for Noncoding RNAs.