Neuromuscular Defects

Precision medicine, Ethics, Stem cells, Microbiome, Infectious Disease, Immunology, Model Development, Rare Diseases, Aging, Cardiovascular, Cancer/Tumors, Developmental Biology, Diabetes, Genetic Tools, Optogenetics and Pharmacogenetics, Autoimmunity, Inflammation, Lupus, Addiction, Dermatology, Autoimmune Diseases Information, Metabolic Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disease, Reproductive Biology, Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Rett Syndrome, Breast Cancer, Neurodevelopmental Defects, Metabolic Defects, Cystic Fibrosis, Genetics and Genomics, Reproductive Disorders, Complex Traits, Developmental Disorders, Diabetes and Obesity, Neurodegenerative and Neuromuscular Diseases, Immune Disorders, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Cancer

Research & Faculty

The Cox Lab

Researches the molecular pathways of human degenerative muscle diseases.

Parkinson's Disease Mouse Model Resource

The Parkinson’s Disease Mouse Model Resource characterizes and distributes new mouse models of Parkinsonism and Parkinson’s disease.

Mouse Genome Informatics

International database resource for the laboratory mouse, providing integrated genetic, genomic, and biological data.

Michael Sasner, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist

Peripheral Neuropathy Resource

Serves as a centralized resource for mouse models and tools that have been validated for use in preclinical studies of peripheral neuropathy.

Neuromuscular Defects

Defective protein quality control and neuromuscular disease

Mighty Mice stay mighty in space

News and Insights

Defective protein quality control and neuromuscular disease

Mighty Mice stay mighty in space

Mighty Mice in the classroom

The Versatile Mouse Model for Rare Disease Research

Of mighty mice and men

New $1.9M federal grant to fund JAX studies of microbiome’s role in multiple sclerosis

$3.3M grant to JAX for study of new ALS candidate gene

Meet the muscle man

Education Resources

The Short Course on the Application of Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior

Short Course on the Genetics of Addiction

Workshop on Stereotaxic Surgery in the Laboratory Mouse

Principles and Techniques for Improving Preclinical to Clinical Translation in Alzheimer's Disease Research

Workshop on Techniques in Modeling Human Cancer in Mice

Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics: The 65th McKusick Short Course