Alicia K. Michael

Ass. Prof. Dr.

Member of the Young Academy since 2026

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

alicia.michael(at)ista.ac.at

Orcid-ID:

0000-0002-6080-839X

Research Areas:

Biology
Structural biology
Biochemistry

Circadian rhythms
Gene regulation

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

Society for Research in Biological Rhythms

Selected Prizes:

2024 ERC Starting Grant
2023 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, Finalist
2019 Friedrich Miescher Institute Ruth Chiquet Originality Prize
2019 HFSP Long-Term Fellowship
2017 EMBO Long-Term Fellowship

Selected Publications:

Michael AK, Grand RS, Isbel L, et al. Mechanisms of OCT4-SOX2 motif readout on nucleosomes. Science. 2020; 368 (6498): 1460-1465. doi: 10.1126/science.abb0074
Michael AK, Stoos L, Crosby P, et al. Cooperation between bHLH transcription factors and histones for DNA access. Nature 619, 385–393 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06282-3.
Kelley R, Khavnekar S, Righetto R, et al. Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Molecular Cell, 2025; 86, 213-230.e7.
Kobayashi W, Michael A, Ruangroengkulrith S, et al. Protocol for integrative analysis of transcription factor-nucleosome interactions using SeEN-seq and cryo-EM structure determination. STAR Protocols, 2026; 7.
Michael AK, Fribourgh JL, Chelliah Y, Sandate CR, Hura GL, Schneidman-Duhovny D, Tripathi SM, Takahashi JS, Partch CL. Formation of a repressive complex in the mammalian circadian clock is mediated by the secondary pocket of CRY1, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114 (7) 1560-1565, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615310114 (2017).

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