February 2025

PhD student Chau Le presents her research
Feb 5, 2025 – In the student-organized seminar series, Chau Le (Nassar lab) described “Identification of binding partners of the leukemia target and RAC activator VAV3”.
Thank you, Dr. Qian!
Feb 12, 2025 – Distinguished Lecturer Li Qian, PhD (University of North Carolina School of Medicine) presented her work on "Altering cardiac cell fate for heart repair".

Hong group publishes in "Technometrics"
Feb 2025 – The group and collaborators report on Bayesian model calibration and sensitivity analysis for oscillating biological experiments.

Dr. Norman reports to the College on Problems of Drug Dependence
Feb 2025 – Dr. Norman described The compulsion zone theory of cocaine self-administration behavior: a blueprint for medications development.

Congratulations to Dr. Gao!
Feb 16, 2025 – Dr. Gao won first place at the Annual Cardiac Muscle Society Early Career Investigator Competition (Assistant Professor level).

Chella Krishnan group publishes in "Communications Biology"
Feb 2025 – The group's work addresses the Functional compartmentalization of hepatic mitochondrial subpopulations during MASH progression.

First-author paper for PhD candidate Andrew Gaulden in "Physiology & Behavior"
Feb 2025 – Andrew and colleagues in the McReynolds lab report that Repeated footshock stress enhances cocaine self-administration in male and female rats: role of the cannabinoid receptor 1.

Congratulations to Dr. Thakkar!
Feb 25, 2025 – Kairavee Thakkar (Salomonis lab) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation “Leveraging single-cell genomics for patient subtype discovery and lineage dynamics”.

Congratulations to Alex Kuhn!
Feb 26, 2025 – Alex (Wohleb lab), won the People's Choice Award at the Graduate College's Three-Minute Thesis Competition and $1000.

Dr. Drosatos and colleagues propose a plan in "Nature Reviews Cardiology"
Feb 2025 – The international group describes a Roadmap for alleviating the manifestations of ageing in the cardiovascular system

Dr. Gao publishes in "JACC: Basic to Translational Science"
Feb 2025 – With two co-authors, Dr. Gao provides an editorial comment "A new GRK2 inhibitor for heart failure".
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Ms. Jennifer Bedel
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Email: bedelj@ucmail.uc.edu