Coller Research Lab
Welcome to the Coller Lab
While many cells in our body are not actively dividing, we have a poor understanding of the biologically and medically important cellular state of quiescence.
Our lab’s mission is to apply modern approaches drawn from molecular and cellular biology, genomics, biochemistry, computer science and systems biology, chemistry and medicine to gain an insight into the molecular basis of quiescence, and thereby cell cycle control and cancer.
Recent Publications
2025
- X. Cheng, Z. Li, J. Zhu, J. Wang, R. Huang, L. W. Yu, S. Lin, S. Forman, E. Gromilina, S. Puri, P. Patel, M. Bahramian, J. Tan, H. Hojaiji, D. Jelinek, L. Voisin, K. B. Yu, A. Zhang, C. Ho, L. Lei, H. A. Coller, E. Y. Hsiao, B. L. Reyes, J. H. Matsumoto, D. C. Lu, C. Liu, C. Milla, R. W. Davis, & S. Emaminejad (2025). Tandem metabolic reaction-based sensors unlock in vivo metabolomics, PNAS, 122(9):e2425526122, PubMed
- M. Mitra, S. L. Batista, & H. A. Coller (2025). Transcription factor networks in cellular quiescence, Nature Cell Biology, 27(1):14-27. PubMed. Read the full review here: PDF
2024
- Gee, M. W., Atai, K., Coller, H. A., T. O. Yeates, & Castells-Graells R. (2024). Designed fluorescent protein cages as fiducial markers for targeted cell imaging, bioRxiv. PubMed
2023
- Cheng, M. W., Mitra, M., & Coller, H. A. (2023). Pan-cancer landscape of epigenetic factor expression predicts tumor outcome. Communications Biology, 6(1). PubMed. (Life Sciences Best Paper Award) Press Release: UCLA Health NIH
- Mitra, M., & Coller, H. A. (2023). Screen time: An unbiased search for histone mutations that affect quiescence and chronological aging. The FEBS Journal, 290(14), 3533–3538. PubMed
2022
- Zhao, Y., Wang, B., Tan, J., Yin, H., Huang, R., Zhu, J., Lin, S., Zhou, Y., Jelinek, D., Sun, Z., Youssef, K., Voisin, L., Horrillo, A., Zhang, K., Wu, B. M., Coller, H. A., Lu, D. C., Pei, Q., & Emaminejad, S. (2022). Soft strain-insensitive bioelectronics featuring brittle materials. Science, 378(6625), 1222–1227. PubMed
- Lin, S., Cheng, X., Zhu, J., Wang, B., Jelinek, D., Zhao, Y., Wu, T.-Y., Horrillo, A., Tan, J., Yeung, J., Yan, W., Forman, S., Coller, H. A., Milla, C., & Emaminejad, S. (2022). Wearable microneedle-based electrochemical aptamer biosensing for precision dosing of drugs with narrow therapeutic windows. Science Advances, 8(38). PubMed
- Coller H. A. (2022). Stressed-out yeast do not pass GO. The Journal of cell biology, 221(1), e202111032. PubMed
- Coller H. A. (2022). Prereplication complex proteins get caught moonlighting. PLoS biology, 20(2), e3001549. PubMed
News
2025
- Welcome to our rotation students: Ricardo Roure, Systems Biology; Hayden Hausman, Cell and Developmental Biology; and Islah Zareef-Mustafah.
- Welcome to our new Master’s graduate student George Contreras.
- Congratulations to Kaiser Atai on defending his Ph.D..
- Congratulations Cecilia Lei for winning a Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Week.
- Congratulations to students who presented at Undergraduate Research Day: Clara Sullivan, Cecilia Lei, Nathan Siemers, Amy Kalteis, Prerana Kasanagottu.
2024
- Aaron Ambrus presented at the Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Department Retreat.
- Congratulations Mithun Mitra and Michael Chen on your selection for Life Science Best Paper award.
- Congratulations Eliana Bohn and Isabel Romero on winning a Science Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Day
- Raymond Alvarado presented at ABCRMS and Cecilia Lei presented at the UCLA Metabolism Interest Group.
- Congratulations Beza Mesfin on winning the Biochemistry Queen’s Road Scholar award.
2023
- Congratulations to Oarteze Hunter for being selected for the UCLA Tumor Cell Biology Training Grant.
- Welcome new postdoctoral fellow Oarteze Hunter.
- Congratulations Rui Wang for winner Outstanding Senior award at Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Commencement.
- Congratulations Ronida Cheko on winning a Science Dean’s Prize at Undergraduate Research Day.
- Congratulations Namita Shyam on winning a Biomedical Research Summer Scholarship.
- Congratulations Amy Kalteis for being selected as a finalist for the Kristen Hansen award.
- Congratulations to our graduate researcher, Kaiser Atai, for presenting at the MBI poster session.
- Congratulations to Laurent Voisin on his fantastic presentation at the MCDB Retreat.