# Michael Guo Graduate Student Co-member of Hirschhorn Lab ![-1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10531/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/evolutionary_genetics/files/-1_1.jpg?itok=OKCtYE-m) email [michaelguo@fas.harvard.edu ]() I am a graduate student working primarily in Dr. Joel Hirschhorn's lab at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. My thesis project focuses on understanding the pleiotropic role of *HMGA2* in type 2 diabetes risk and human height. I am working with Terry on analyzing transcriptional targets of HMGA2 in human mesenchymal stem cells. - ## Lab members [Collaborators](/lab-members/collaborators)