2014 News Archive
Congratulations! to Dr. Lance Stechschulte, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Beata Lecka-Czernik's
lab, has been selected as a recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Award
for an Outstanding Publication in 2014. He will receive a $1,000 award at ENDO 2015,
the Endocrine Society's 97th Annual Meeting being held March 5-8, 2015, in San Diego,
CA .
Congratulations! to Dr. Bina Joe for being named the Shining Star Award winner for
Outstanding Research by the Office of the Provost at the University of Toledo. View Video
Congratulations! To Dr. Bina Joe for the appointment as Editor-in-Chief of an American Physiological Society journal. Dr. Joe will assume office as the Editor of Physiological Genomics from July 1, 2015.
Congratulations! to Robert Lee who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November 13, 2014, "Alpha 7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Novel Role in Macrophage Survival and Murine Atherosclerosis" Advisor: Dr. Guillermo Vazquez
Congratulations! to Namrata Madan who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on October
16, 2014, "Role of Different Isoforms of Na/K-ATPase in Signal Transduction" Advisor:
Dr. Zi-Jian Xie
Congratulations! to Anita Rana, Ph.D., she has been selected to receive a Basic Cardiovascular
Sciences (BCVS) Abstract Travel Grant to attend the AHA Scientific Sessions 2014 in
Chicago, IL, November 15-19, 2014. This award recognizes meritorious work by young
investigators, encourages participation in the AHA Scientific Sessions and provides
a small stipend to help defer the council's international presenters' travel expenses
to present research at the AHA Scientific Sessions.
Congratulations! to Brahma Raju Mopidevi, Ph.D., on being selected for the Kidney
Council New Investigator Travel Award for the abstract he submitted, "A Genetic Variant
of Human Aldosterone Synthase Gene Causes Salt-Dependent High Blood Pressure in Transgenic
Mice". The High Blood Pressure Research (HBPR) 2014 Scientific Session will be held
at the Hilton San Francisco, September 9-12, 2014. Dr. Mopidevi's abstract is among
the top 10 percent of the accepted abstracts. He will present a poster presentation
at the Scientific Sessions 2014, Chicago, IL, November 15-19, 2014.
Congratulations! to Dr. Lance Stechschulte, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Beata Lecka-Czernik's
lab, submitted two abstracts for a meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral
Research entitled: (1) "Protein Phosphatase 5 (PP5) regulates both energy metabolism
and bone mass by reciprocal regulation of PPARγ and Runx2 activities", Stechschulte,
Ge, Czernik, Sanchez, Francheschi, Lecka-Czernik and (2) "The molecular chaperone
FKBP51 regulates energy metabolism and bone mass by controlling PPARg and p38 MAPK
activities in adipocytes and marrow mesenchymal stem cells", Stechschulte, Sanchez,
Czernik, Lecka-Czernik. Both abstracts received multiple awards. One of them will
be featured 4 times in the form of oral presentation, plenary poster, during a guided
poster tour, and during a special symposia on Bone and Diabetes. For the second abstract
Lance is awarded an oral presentation and the Young Investigator Travel Award, only
few young investigators receive this award, and poster presentation on the Bone and
Diabetes symposium.
Congratulations! to Bina Joe, Ph.D. who has been named the 2014 Lewis K. Dahl Memorial
Lecturer by The American Heart Association's Council on High Blood Pressure Research
(soon to be Hypertension). The Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture was established in
1988 by the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in honor of Dr. Dahl's pioneering
work on the relations between salt, the kidney, and hypertension, and his establishment
of a major genetically based experimental model of hypertension, the Dahl salt-sensitive
rat. Dr. Joe will attend the conference in San Francisco, CA, September 9-12, 2014.
Video - 2014 Lewis K Dahl Memorial Lecture Bina Joe, PhD, FAHA
Congratulations! to Dr. Sivarajan Kumarasamy, Assistant Professor, and newly appointed
faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Congratulations! to Sonia Najjar, Ph.D. being a recipient of the YMCA Milestone Award,
honoring women who have been making a difference in Northwest Ohio (March 13, 2014).
Congratulations! to Bina Joe, Ph.D. who has been selected as the recipient of the
American Physiological Society (APS) Physiological Genomics Distinguished Service
Award. This award is given to recognize those who have made outstanding contribution
to the development of the APS Physiological Genomics group.
Congratulations! to Terry Hinds, Ph.D. who has been named to the Editorial Board of
the Journal of Diabetes Research.
Congratulations! to Resmi Pillai graduate student in Dr. Bina Joe's Laboratory who
has won the Young Investigator Award from the American Physiological Society (APS),
which is awarded to the first author of the best paper published in an APS journal-Physiological
Genomics in 2013. Title of publication: "Isolation and high-throughput sequencing
of two-closely linked epistatic hypertension susceptibility loci with a panel of bicongenic
strains", Resmi Pillai, Harshal Waghulde, Ying Nie, Kathirvel Gopalakrishnan, Sivarajan
Kumarasamy, Phyllis Farms, Michael R. Garrett, Santosh S. Atanur, Klio Maratou, Timothy
J. Aitman, Bina Joe. Physiological Genomics - Published 11 June 2013 Vol. no. DOI:
10.1152/physiolgenomics.00077.2013
Congratulations! to Xingjian Jin who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March
25,2014,"Regulation of Calcium Signaling by Cilla and its Role in Polycystic Kidney
Disease Pathogenesis" Advisor: Dr. Surya Nauli
Congratulations! to Moustafa Sayed who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on March
28, 2014, "Effects of Na/K-ATPase Pump and its Ligands on the Differentiation of Bone-marrow
Stem Cells" Advisor: Dr. Jiang Tian