It’s been a while since I updated the lab blog, so here’s a run-down of what’s new in the past few months…

• Marcin Karcz, a resident in the Department of Anesthesiology, got his fellowship grant funded by FAER (The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research), and will start in the lab shortly.
• Our paper with Michael O’Reilly on mitochondrial DNA double strand breaks and ATM activation was finally published in FRBM.
• The publications page is finally updated to include our 2013 and YTD 2014 papers.
• We have a summer undergraduate intern, Ling Yang from biomedical engineering, who is designing/making circuits for electrical stimulation of isolated cardiomyoyctes.
• Our dual-PI R01 application with Keith Nehrke on the mitochondrial unfolded protein response received a 13th percentile score. Not fundable (NHLBI payline is 11%) but hopefully close enough to fly on the next cycle.
• Chad Galloway got an impact score of 30 for his K01 application. No percentiles given, so it’s fingers crossed for the October council meeting at NIDDK.
• Chad also got his paper on mito’ morphology in NASH published in AJP Endo (accepted but not online yet).
• AHA Grants have been flying out the door… pre-doc’ from Owen Smith, and lots of letters/references for pre-doc’, post-doc’, grant-in-aid and others. It looks like their fall review cycle is going to be packed!
• Andrew and Sergiy went to the AHA Basic Cardiovascular Sciences meeting in Las Vegas NV, where allegedly Sergiy won a whole 5 dollars (and promptly lost it again).  Oh, and Andrew won a travel award.

Outside the lab’ there’s plenty happening too.  Summer vacations being taken, home improvement projects being done, happenings in the world of PPPR such as this great editorial at PubPeer, trying to get letters/paperwork together for my promotion, playing with my 3D printer, and of course the usual shenanigans over on Twitter.