Professor Hansong Ma PhD

Professor Hansong Ma

School of Biosciences
Professor in Genetics

Contact details

Email
h.ma.6@bham.ac.uk
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Hansong is a leading expert in mitochondrial genetics. Her group developed tools and systems in Drosophila to study mitochondrial DNA transmission and maintenance.

Biography

Hansong studied the host-pathogen interaction for her DPhil at the University 麻豆精选 under the supervision of Prof Robin May. She then joined Prof Patrick O’Farrell’s laboratory as a Human Frontier postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Francisco to explore mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) transmission in Drosophila. In 2017, she started her group as Wellcome Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. She moved her lab to Birmingham in 2023.

Postgraduate supervision

The lab is recruiting PhD students.

We have a PhD studentship available. Please apply before the 31st May 2023!

Other activities

Mitochondrial DNA transmission, inheritance and repair, Mitochondrial dynamics, mito-nuclear coevolution

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Wang, Z, Meerod, T, Cortes-Silva, N, Chiang, C-Y, Nie, Z, Di, Y, Mu, P, Verma, A, Reid, A & Ma, H 2025, '', The EMBO journal.

Chiang, C-Y, Jezek, J, Mu, P, Di, Y, Klucnika, A, Jaburek, M, Jezek, P & Ma, H 2024, '', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 611.

YZ Li, A, Di, Y, Rathore, S, Chiang, C-Y, Jezek, J & Ma, H 2023, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 120, no. 34, e2306073120.

Klucnika, A, Mu, P, Jezek, J, McCormack, M, Di, Y, Bradshaw, CR & Ma, H 2023, '', Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 222, no. 1, e202201137.

Klucnika, A & Ma, H 2020, '', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

van den Ameele, J, YZ Li, A, Ma, H & Chinnery, P 2020, '', Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.

Klucnika, A & Ma, H 2019, '', Open Biology.

Chiang, AC-Y, McCartney, E, O'Farrell, PH & Ma, H 2019, '', Current Biology.

Ma, H & O'Farrell, PH 2016, '', Nature Genetics.

Ma, H & O'Farrell, PH 2015, '', eLife.

Ma, H, Xu, H & O'Farrell, PH 2014, '', Nature Genetics.

Hagen, F, Ceresini, PC, Polacheck, I, Ma, H, van Nieuwerburgh, F, Gabaldon, T, Kagan, S, Pursall, ER, Hoogveld, HL, van Iersel, LJJ, Klau, GW, Kelk, SM, Stougie, L, Bartlett, KH, Voelz, K, Pryszcz, LP, Castaneda, E, Lazera, M, Meyer, W, Deforce, D, Meis, JF, May, RC, Klaassen, CHW & Boekhout, T 2013, '', PLOS One, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. e71148. ,

Voelz, K, Ma, H, Phadke, S, Byrnes, EJ, Zhu, P, Mueller, O, Farrer, RA, Henk, DA, Lewit, Y, Hsueh, Y, Fisher, MC, Idnurm, A, Heitman, J & May, RC 2013, '', PLoS Genetics, vol. 9, no. 9, e1003771. ,

Byrnes, EJ, Li, W, Lewit, Y, Ma, H, Voelz, K, Ren, P, Carter, DA, Chaturvedi, V, Bildfell, RJ, May, R & Heitman, J 2010, '', PLoS pathogens, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. e1000850.

Ma, H & May, RC 2010, '', Virulence, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 197-201.