Lab News
May 2019
Congratulations to former summer students Johan Lee and Stephen Buiter for being accepted and enrolling into medical school at University of Michigan and University of Illinois - Chicago.
January 2018
Congratulations to Molly Thorson for being awarded a fellowship on the Cardiovascular Research and Entrepreneurship Training Grant
December 2017
Congratulations to Joanne Garbincius for defending her thesis and officially being awarded her PhD at commencement
July 2016
Congratulations to Michael Fayad for being awarded an AHA Graduate Student Fellowship and also completing his Masters degree in Physiology.
May and July 2016
Congratulations to Matt Campbell, Anoop Gopal and Marc Witcher for their paper being featured in an AJP Heart and Circ Podcast as well as an AJP Editor's Choice article for the month of July.
May 2016
Congratulations to Ashley Cuttitta who was co-first author on a Best Poster Award winning poster with Benny Eisen from our collaborator Dr. Binah's laboratory at Technion University. The award was given at the D. Dan and Betty Kahn UM-Israel Partnership for Research and Education 5th Annual Symposium.
April 2016
Congratulations to Elizabeth Cowdin, UROP student,on her Outstanding Poster award at the 2016 UROP Symposium.
April 2016
Congratulations to Molly Thorson for receiving a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant
March 2016
Congratulations to Joanne who was awarded a prestigous Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to cover her final year in the PhD program.
February 2016
Congratulations to Molly for passing her CMB preliminary exams and appointment as a graduate student trainee on the CMB Training Grant
October 2015
Congratulations to Joanne for her publication in PNAS describing the role of the DGC as a mechanosensor that regulates nitric oxide through AMPK signalling.
April 2014
Congratulations to Joel for his publication in FASEB J describing the first in vivo transgenic dysferlin-GFP membrane repair biosensor mice.
January 2014
Congratulations to Joel for successfully defending his thesis.
October 2014
Congratulations to Joel for his publication in HMG describing the role of microtubles and kinesins in dysferlin-GFP labelled vesicle trafficking and the formation of super huge dysferlin containing vesicles after membrane damage.