Center for Muscle Biology

News (Archive for 2010)

• The Center held its 2nd Annual Research Retreat on Thursday October 28th at the Boone Center on the UK campus. Selected pictures from the event are shown below.

• Robin Cooper's group publishes Sturcture/function assessment of synapses at motor nerve terminals in Synapse.
   
  

• Ken Campbell organizes a session titled "Cross-bridge and sarcomere modeling" at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Singapore
   
  
• The Center will host a Modeling workshop for trainees in muscle biology in July, 2011. Ken Campbell is the local organizer.
   
  

• Karyn Esser replaces Mike Reid as the new Center Director. The press release is available here

  
   
  

• The Center is pleased to announce new Associate Members.

• Two former students from the Jessamine Career and Technology Center, Cala Meikle and Elle Lintemuth, join the Esser lab to gain research experience during their summer vacation.

  You can see a newspaper article about their summer internship in our Pressroom.

  
   
  

• Paul Murphy wins the prestigious Thomas Maciag Award at the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence.

  

  
   
  

• The Center held its summer Membership meeting at the Boone Center on June 1st.

  Four trainees were awarded prizes at the Poster Session:
  Melani Lefta and Ann Cooper - Junior Trainees
  Mitsunori Miyazaki and Mihail Mitov - Senior Trainees

  
   
  

• Mitsunori Miyazaki Esser lab is the first author for a new publication: Insulin like growth factor-1 induced phosphorylation and altered distribution of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)1/TSC2 in C2C12 myotubes in FEBS Journal.
   
  

• The "Basketball Raffle" run by our Center, the Cardiovascular Research Center, and the Department of Physiology raised almost $1,000 for the American Heart Association. The picture below shows Ken Campbell with the balls at the Central Kentucky Heartwalk. The people wearing red hats are heart disease survivors. Thanks to Alan Daugherty and the CVRC for providing the picture.

  
   
  

• Ayodele Osasona (ex-Campbell Lab, now UK Medical Student) is a member of a 3-person team that is awarded 2nd place in the National Clarion Competition. This contest is designed to test the collective knowledge of an interprofessional student team and focuses on patient safety and patient care. You can read the official UK press release here.

  
   
  

• Ken Campbell and Ben Lawson talk about the new Single Fiber Function Core at a Muscle Forum.

March, 2010

• Adam Tilley from the Campbell lab has procured basketballs signed by Matthew Mitchell and John Calipari, the Coaches for the UK Women's and Men's basketball teams.

  

  The Campbell Lab, in collaboration with the UK Cardiovascular Research Center, will be selling raffle tickets for these balls to raise money for the Central Kentucky Heartwalk which will be taking in place in Lexington on Saturday April 24th. All proceeds will go to the American Heart Association.

  More details about the raffle are available here

  
   
  

• Many Center Members participated in the Department of Physiology's 2010 March Madness Chili Cookoff. Award winners included:

  
  Mike Reid - Hottest Chili

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  Laura Ashley-Gilliam - Best Chili
   
  

February, 2010

• For the second year in a row, the winner of the Medicine/Health Sciences Award at the Kentucky American Water/Fayette County Public Schools Science Fair was a high school student working with members of the Center for Muscle Biology. Alex Wade (Paul Dunbar High School) analyzed bones from male and female rats that were maintained in simulated microgravity. The experiments were performed with assistance from Ken Campbell and Esther Dupont-Versteegden.

  Alex also won a Science Fair Award from the American Physiological Society.
   
  

• Martin Lakie from the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham in Britain visits the Center and discusses his work at a Muscle Forum and at a separate Seminar

  
   
  

January, 2010

• Edgar Arriaga from the University of Minnesota give a talk in the Department of Chemistry at UK titled "Unraveling biological complexity: Microanalysis of tissues, cells, and organelles"
   
  
• Mark Bonnell is awarded a pilot project grant from the Center of Research in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease to study heart failure in overweight patients.

  
   
  

• Ken Campbell gives a talk titled "Modeling muscle cells" in the program "Building research collaborations between Medicine and Engineering".

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News archive for 2009