Physiology

Department News

• December 4, 2010
  Holiday Party
  
• November 20, 2010
  Megan Bardgett receives her PhD.
  
• October 21, 2010
  PGY Day at Keeneland
  
• October 16, 2010
  50th Anniversary Celebration - UK football Game
  
• October 15, 2010
  50th Anniversary Celebration Poster Session and Awards
  
• October 15, 2010
  50th Anniversary Celebration luncheon
  
• October 15, 2010
  50th Anniversary Celebration at the WT Young Library
  
• October 14, 2010
  50th Anniversary Celebration at Woodford Reserve
  
• September 7, 2010
  PGY Bowling Tournament
  
• September 2, 2010
  Laura Ashley Gilliam receives her PhD.
  
• August 9, 2010
  2010 IBS Retreat
  
• July 20, 2010
  Highlights from July 20, 2010 faculty meeting
  
• Kudo’s:
• Dr. Lee DoD grant
• Dr. Satin/Andres Co-PI grant
• Dr. Karakashian - Perry Dotson AHA Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Paula Heron - NRSA Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Camille Blake – NRSA Post Doctoral Fellowship
• Kathleen Schoch NRSA Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Mellani Lefta – AHA Pre Doctoral Fellowship
• Dates to remember:
• IBS Retreat (August 9th)
• UK Fusion (August 23rd)
• Research Retreat (August 18th & 19th)
• 50th Anniversary celebration (October 14th and 15th)
• June 24, 2010
  
  • Physiology Night at the Lexington Legends
  
• June 3, 2010
  
  Miranda Byse receives her PhD
  
• April 22, 2010
  Natalie Snider, a Biology undergraduate working in Dr. Paco Andrade’s lab, has been selected for the 2010 Buck for Brains Summer Research Program.
• April 21, 2010
  
  • Robert F. Hunt, III receives his PhD
    
  • Drs. Karyn Esser and Ken Campbell received a new 5 year Grant in collaboration with Dr. Tom Clemons (John Hopkins University).
  • Dr. Ok-Kyong Park-Sarge will be stepping down after a four-year term as the Director of Graduate Studies. Dr. Bret Smith will take over this position beginning July 1, 2010
  • The Physiology Department will be participating in the COM 50th Celebration. Mark your calendars now for October 15th. More details will be available soon.
  • It’s not too late to purchase your $5 ticket for chances to win autographed basketballs by John Calipari, UK Men’s Basketball Coach and Matthew Mitchell, UK Women’s Basketball Coach. You can buy tickets until Friday, April 23rd by contacting Cindy McKenzie in MS509. All proceeds go to the American Heart Association.
• January 27, 2010
  The American Physiological Society selected Megan Bardgett (Stocker lab) for a Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Award, and Mary Garcia-Cazarin (Andrade lab) for a Steven M. Horvarth Award.”
• January 21, 2010
  

  

  The individuals pictured (from the left): Laura Gilliam, Gretchen Wolff, Carmen Kiper, Mary Garcia-Cazarin, Mellani Lefta

  Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from the department attended the American Physiological Society Professional Skills Training Workshop in Orlando, FL. The workshop allows students to develop scientific presentation skills, and improve writing and reviewing skills for scientific journals.

  If you would like more information please visit their website
  http://www.the-aps.org/education/profskills

• November 16, 2009
  Congratulations Jeremy McIntyre, Ph.D. Nov. 16, 2009
  
• October 12, 2009
  Celebration for Betty White’s 60th Birthday on October 12
  
• September 22, 2009
  Congratulations go out to the following PIs on recently funded awards
  
  • Drs. Karyn Esser and Paco Andrade
    1 RC1 ES018636-01, titled Clock genes, environmental challenges and cardiopulmonary disease
  • Dr. Lu-Yuan Lee
    R01, titled Role of TRPV1 in Airway Hypersensitivity Induced by Allergic Inflammation
  • Dr. Steve Estus
    In collaboration with labs at Washington University, University of IL at Chicago, University of S. Florida, and Georgetown University, the Estus lab was awarded a program project grant to evaluate the role of apoE receptors in Alzheimer’s disease. This five year grant has direct costs of $1.5 million per year.
  • Dr. Gary VanZant
    Challenge grant titled Slit2-mediated expansion of primitive hematopoietic stem cell populations for transplantation and hematopoietic recovery. It is the direct outgrowth of Amanda Waterstrat's Ph.D. research. Amanda obtained her degree in January, 2009 from the Dept. of Physiology and is now Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.
    
  • Dr. Gregory Frolenkov
    R01DC008861-01A2S109, titled Role of Staircase Hair Bundle Morphology in Auditory Mechanotransduction
  • Dr. Karin High
    NIH ARRA RO1 NS 039041-10 S1: Neurogenic Amplification of Pancreatitis Pain Student Supplement
    NIH ARRA RO1 NS 039041-10 S2: Neurogenic Amplification of Pancreatitis Pain Microscope Upgrade Supplement
  • Drs. Charlotte Peterson and John McCarthy
    R21 - Defining the role of satellite cells in muscle maintenance throughout the lifespan using genetic labeling.
    
• August 27. 2009
  Congratulations to Jorge Gamboa on receiving his Ph.D.
  
• June 9, 2009
  Congratulations to Krasi Rozenova on receiving her Ph.D.
  
• December 20, 2008
  Congratulations to Guangfan Zhang, Rangaraj Gopalraj, Amanda Waterstrat and Romulo Albuquerque on receiving their Ph.D.
  

• Novemeber 20, 2008
  The Physiology Department would like to welcome two new administrative staff. Cindy McKenzie is now the Chair’s Assistant and the Administrator for the Muscle Biology Center. She comes to UK from Lexmark with over eighteen years experience in business. Sherry Howard will be working with all things related to the Graduate Student program. She comes to us from Lexington Christian Academy with more than fourteen years experience in education. We are thrilled to have both Cindy and Sherry join our team!
• August 1, 2008
  UK Receives $1 Million for Heart Research.
  http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=3775
• July 18, 2008
  If you are interested in attending the Adult Skeletal Muscle Symposium please visit
  http://www.mc.uky.edu/physiology/symposium
• Physiology Graduate Students
• Jorge Gamboa received the 2008-2009 Porter Physiology Fellowship award from the APS
• Congratulations to Shawn Crump for passing the qualifying exam in March.
• McClintock Lab
  The McClintock Lab received a $10K NIDCD supplement.
• Stocker Lab
  
  • Julye Adams received 2008 APS Central Nervous System Section Research Recognition Award
  • Caitlynn Taylor is a finalist for the 2008 APS David Bruce Undergraduate Research Award