Just a quick message after the wonderful @The_MCSociety pre-meeting at #APS2025. It was an honor and privilege being entrusted with the MCS presidency these past 2 years. So proud of our trainees and the next generation of microcirculationists! To all the good things ahead!
The official release of our manuscript examining arterial myocyte Panx1 role in diabetic vascular dysfunction is out! Massive effort to uncover new mechanisms underlying vascular disease. Power of science! @ucdavis, @UCDavisHealth, @UCDAVISPharmac1ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/…
CSMOpto at @UCalgary will be hosting its third workshop on Advanced Fiber Photometry from October 21st-24th, 2025! This is a great opportunity for researchers across all career stages to gain hands on experience using this technique! Please apply/share!
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Excited to share a preprint for our new orange calcium biosensor, OCaMP, developed by Abhi Aggarwal! This was a true tour de force with incredible collaborators across the world! (Too many to list here!) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
A little bit late but I’m honored and humbled to have been selected back in May as the recipient of the 2025 @ucdavis, @UCDavisHealth Research Award! This recognition belongs to the M&M Lab members!
Congrats to Wayne State University student George Ayanleke, pictured with mentor Cristina Espinosa-Diez (@krispy-ed.bsky.social). He is a recipient of an APS Local Undergraduate Research Award in Physiology (LURAP). Learn more about LURAP: ow.ly/ZQjs50W5x7F#ProfDev
🎉 Dr. Karen Gould, PhD, has been named interim dean of UNMC Graduate Studies, effective June 1!
Thank you to Dr. Kendra Schmid for her leadership — and congrats to Dr. Gould as she steps into this new role! 👏
So proud of our immediate past President of MCS, Pooneh Bagher PhD, for being awarded Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Junior Faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical Center! Congratulations on this honor!!🍾 @
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Congratulations to MCS member Andreas Beyer PhD for his NHLBI NOA for an R21 to generate models to study the physiological impact of TERT in cancer and CVD! 🙌
Huge congratulations to Malak Alradi, trainee in MCS member Drew Fancher’s lab, for being awarded the Robert Gunn Student award from the APS Cell Section at the 2025 APS Summit!! 🫶
Amazing work by MCS member Fabrice Dabertrand and team! Check out their article in Science Signaling which was featured on the cover with accompanying editorial by Scott Earley!! 🥳@DabertrandFab@vesselmanscience.org/doi/10.1126/scis…
Check out the news article from Tufts about the research being done to improve stroke. Find yours truly along with some amazing clinicians and researchers here at Tufts discussing the big questions needing to be answered! now.tufts.edu/2025/04/28/big…
Honored and humbled to have received the Berne Distinguished Lectureship Award from the @APSPhysiology CV Section this past weekend. Thanks to all current and former M&M Lab members, collaborators, @ucdavis, @UCDavisHealth, @nih_nhlbi & @American_Heart !