MCIP Student Achievements

Before the new school year starts up next month, we wanted to recognize the many MCIP graduate student achievements from this past year.  If you know someone that should be on this list, let us know!  Congratulations and keep up the great work this coming year.

Publications:

• Nick Aguirre: The Role of Amino Acids in Skeletal Muscle Adaptation to Exercisehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23899757
• George Crocker: Combined effects of inspired oxygen, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide on oxygen transport and aerobic capacity.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Crocker%20GH%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=23813529
• Danny Daughety: A TSPO ligand is protective in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23681668
• Tony Herren:  Post-translational modifications of the cardiac Na channel: contribution of CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation to acquired arrhythmias.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23771687
• Lucy Lu: Measuring local gradients of intramitochondrial [Ca(2+)] in cardiac myocytes during sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) release.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23243207
• Adam Ross: A Mutation in Mouse Pak1ip1 Causes Orofacial Clefting while Human PAK1IP1 Maps to 6p24 Translocation Breaking Points Associated with Orofacial Clefting.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23935987
• Michael Steinman: Nongenomic effects of estradiol on aggression under short day photoperiods.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23763907 

Grants/Fellowships:

• Nick Aguirre - MCB training grant - Muscle-specific LAT1 KO on mechanical and nutritional post-translational signaling
• Kristi Hamilton - Chateaubriand fellowship- Beneficial effects of pre- and probiotics in obesity
• Tony Herren  - T32 Pharmacology Training Program –CaMKII Based Regulation of the Cardiac Voltage Gated Na+ Channel
• Lucy Lu:  American Heart Association WSA Predoctoral Fellowship
• Collin McCoin - T32 Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program - Acylcarnitines and Inherited Disorders of Fatty Acid Oxidation: From Clinical Diagnostics to Active Players in Driving Inflammation and Myopathy
• Marissa McMackin - NIH NINDS- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Friedreich's Ataxia research in mouse models
• Angeliki Papalamprou -  American Heart Association WSA Predoctoral Fellowship - Antigen removal for the production of immunoacceptable xenogeneic scaffolds for myocardial patch tissue engineering.