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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. |
Name |
Institute |
keywords |
links |
Adah Almutairi, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | Nanomedicine, drug and gene delivery | Website; Contact: aalmutairi@ucsd.edu |
Sanford I. Bernstein, Ph.D. | SDSU | drosophila melanogaster, muscle defects, RNA splicing, myosin, unc-45 | Website; Contact: sbernstein@mail.sdsu.edu |
Ju Chen, PhD | UC-San Diego | zaspopathy, nemaline myopathy, mouse models, knockout, knockin, Crispr/Cas9 | Website; Administrative Core > Contact: juchen@ucsd.edu |
Shu Chien, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | vascular biology, biomechanical signaling | Website; Contact: shuchien@ucsd.edu |
Adam Engler, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | stem cells, mechanobiology, cell signaling | Website; Contact: aengler@ucsd.edu |
Ronald Evans, Ph.D. | SALK Institute | hormones and hormone receptors, salt, fat & sugar metabolism, obesity | Website; Contact: evans@salk.edu |
Velia Fowler, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | Lmod, Tmod, muscular dystrophy, thin filament regulation | Imaging Core >; website > Contact: velia@scripps.edu |
Larry Gerace, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | nuclear envelope, laminopathies | website > Contact: lgerace@scripps.edu |
Daniel Goble, Ph.D. | SDSU | sensorimotor neuroscience, motor control, biomechanics | website > dgoble@mail.sdsu.edu |
Michael C Hogan, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | oxygen dependence, bioenergetics, fatigue, cell physiology | Website; Contact: mchogan@ucsd.edu |
Anastasia Kralli, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | metabolic stress, transcriptional regulation | website >; Contact: kralli@scripps.edu |
Katja Lamia, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | circadian rhythm, metabolic regulation | website >; Contact: klamia@scripps.edu |
Stephan Lange, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | mechanosensors and mechanosignaling in muscles, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, cardiomyopathy, calcium dependent signaling, proteomics | Website; Contact: slange@ucsd.edu |
Helen Makarenkova, Ph.D. | Scripps Research Institute | muscle regeneration, satellite cell function | website >; Contact: hmakarenk@scripps.edu |
Girish Melkani, Ph.D. | SDSU | amyloidâinduced proteinâunfolding, protein degradation, inclusion body myopathy | website >; Contact: gmelkani@mail.sdsu.edu |
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: lpuri@sanfordburnham.org |
Alessandra Sacco, Ph.D. | Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute | skeletal muscle stem cells, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy | Website; Cell Analysis Core > Contact: asacco@sanfordburnham.org |
Simon Schenk, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | substrate metabolism in skeletal muscle | Website; Contact: sschenk@ucsd.edu |
Sameer Shah, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | function, dysfunction and plasticity of the nervous and muscular system | Website; Contact: sbshah@ucsd.edu |
Lori Tuttle Ph.D. | SDSU | aging, women's health, pelvic muscles, rehabilitation | Website; Contact: ltuttle@mail.sdsu.edu |
Shyni Varghese, Ph.D. | UC-San Diego | bioinspired materials, extracellular matrix | Website; svarghese@ucsd.edu |
Peter D. Wagner, M.D. | UC-San Diego | oxygen, metabolism, hypoxia | Website; Contact: pdwagner@ucsd.edu |
Samuel R. Ward, PT, PhD | UC-San Diego | rotor-cuff, injury, spinal cord, botulinum toxin, shoulder, skeletal muscle adaption | Website; Physiology & Phenotyping Core > Contact: s1ward@ucsd.edu |