Affiliations
The Colacino Lab is housed in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are also affiliated with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Program in the Environment, the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, the Michigan Center for Single-Cell Genomic Data Analysis, the Michigan Single Cell Spatial Analysis Program, the Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease NIEHS P30 Core Center, the Center of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS).
Our research
We integrate wet lab work with epidemiological and bioinformatic approaches to understand why people get diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. In the lab, we use a range of systems, including three dimensional cultures of primary human tissues, to test how environmental and dietary factors alter normal stem cell differentiation. By using tissues collected from well characterized individuals, we conduct precision toxicology studies in a dish to study how environmental exposures impact disease disparities.