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December 12, 2023 - Congrats to HEART Lab Winter 2023 Graduates!
Liz Straight- MS Kinesiology & Health
Kevin Fontana- BS Physiology
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November 16, 2023 - Liz defends Masters thesis!
"Deletion of cardiac AMPK leads to distinct right ventricular remodeling in pulmonary artery banded male mice"
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May 12, 2023 - Congrats to HEART Lab Class of 2023 Graduates!
Undergraduate: Graduate:
Emma Mehl- BS Physiology Sydney Polson- MS Kinesiology & Health
Celeste Keelin- BS Physiology Aykhan Yusifov- PhD Biomedical Science
Megan Borders- BS Molecular Biology
Julian Matthews- BS Kinesiology & Health
Hannah Hagen- BS Kinesiology & Health
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March 31, 2023- Julian Matthews wins undergraduate poster presentation award at RMACSM
"Right ventricular reverse remodeling following hypobaric hypoxia exposure in aged mice"
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May 10, 2024 - Congrats to HEART Lab Class of 2024 Graduates!
Hannah Hagen- MS Kinesiology & Health
Sam Shorthill- MS Kinesiology & Health
Ben McNair- PhD Biomedical Sciences
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Feb 5, 2024 - Ben defends doctoral dissertation. Congrats to Dr. McNair!
"Mechanisms of right ventricular aging and disease"
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March 27, 2023 - Sydney defends Masters thesis!
"Diabetes-induced sex-specific biventricular function in a high fat diet streptozotocin model of diabetic cardiomyopathy"
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November 15, 2022 - Aykhan defends doctoral dissertation. Congrats to Dr. Yusifov!
"Age- and sex-specific differences in isoproterenol-induced cardiac remodeling"
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May 13, 2022 - Congrats to HEART Lab Class of 2022 Graduates!
Undergraduate: Graduate:
Sam Shorthill- BS Physiology Zack Fullerton- MS Kinesiology & Health
Dorcas Odogwu- BS Physiology
Courtney Hughes- BS Molecular Biology
Liz Straight- BS Physiology
Trae Knez- BS Kinesiology & Health
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April 20, 2022 - Zack Fullerton defends Masters Thesis
"Partial pericardiectomy precludes right heart failure phenotype of pulmonary artery banded mice in a sex-dependent manner"
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Undergraduate Poster Award Winners:
3rd- Dorcas Odogwu
2nd- Megan Borders
1st- Sam Shorthill
Masters Student Poster Award Winners:
1st- Zack Fullerton
April 10, 2022 - HEART Lab students win awards at Rocky Mountain ACSM Annual Meeting
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December 23, 2022 - Ben McNair receives American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
"AMPK activation as a novel anti-fibrotic therapy in right heart failure"
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