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Meet the Scientists
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The San Diego Skeletal Muscle Research Center (SDMRC) is composed of scientists interested in all aspects of muscle research, who span five research institutions and nine academic Departments. Below is a list of SDMRC supported scientists, their research interests and links to the lab-homepages. |
List of SDMRC associated scientists and research interests
Name |
Institute |
keywords |
links |
| Adah Almutairi, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | Nanomedicine, drug and gene delivery | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Sanford I. Bernstein, Ph.D. | SDSU | drosophila melanogaster, muscle defects, RNA splicing, myosin, unc-45 | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Ju Chen, PhD | UC-San Diego | zaspopathy, nemaline myopathy, mouse models, knockout, knockin, Crispr/Cas9 | Website; Administrative Core > Contact: [email protected] |
| Shu Chien, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | vascular biology, biomechanical signaling | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Adam Engler, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | stem cells, mechanobiology, cell signaling | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Ronald Evans, Ph.D. | SALK Institute | hormones and hormone receptors, salt, fat & sugar metabolism, obesity | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Velia Fowler, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | Lmod, Tmod, muscular dystrophy, thin filament regulation | Imaging Core >; website > Contact: [email protected] |
| Larry Gerace, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | nuclear envelope, laminopathies | website > Contact: [email protected] |
| Daniel Goble, Ph.D. | SDSU | sensorimotor neuroscience, motor control, biomechanics | website > [email protected] |
| Michael C Hogan, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | oxygen dependence, bioenergetics, fatigue, cell physiology | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Anastasia Kralli, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | metabolic stress, transcriptional regulation | website >; Contact: [email protected] |
| Katja Lamia, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | circadian rhythm, metabolic regulation | website >; Contact: [email protected] |
| Stephan Lange, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | mechanosensors and mechanosignaling in muscles, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, cardiomyopathy, calcium dependent signaling, proteomics | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Helen Makarenkova, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | muscle regeneration, satellite cell function | website >; Contact: [email protected] |
| Girish Melkani, Ph.D. | SDSU | amyloidâinduced proteinâunfolding, protein degradation, inclusion body myopathy | website >; Contact: [email protected] |
| Lorenzo Puri, M.D., Ph.D. | Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute | embryonic and adult stem cells, iPS, reprogramming, pluripotency, translational research | Website; Cell Analysis Core > Contact: [email protected] |
| Alessandra Sacco, Ph.D. | Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute | skeletal muscle stem cells, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | Website; Cell Analysis Core > Contact: [email protected] |
| Simon Schenk, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Sameer Shah, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | function, dysfunction and plasticity of the nervous and muscular system | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Lori Tuttle Ph.D. | SDSU | aging, women's health, pelvic muscles, rehabilitation | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Shyni Varghese, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | bioinspired materials, extracellular matrix | Website; [email protected] |
| Peter D. Wagner, M.D. | UC-San Diego | oxygen, metabolism, hypoxia | Website; Contact: [email protected] |
| Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD | UC-San Diego | rotor-cuff, injury, spinal cord, botulinum toxin, shoulder, skeletal muscle adaption | Website; Physiology & Phenotyping Core > Contact: [email protected] |