It’s been a slow summer so far in the lab, but we’ve had a few personnel changes and other things to update…

– Marcin Karcz finished his 1 year research residency funded by FAER, and has now moved on to a cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Columbia NY.

– We have a new lab’ tech, James Miller, who joins us from the Department for Oral Biology.

– Our new post-doc’ fellow Yves Wang started July 1.  Yves joins us from Case Western in Cleveland, where he’s worked on cardiac imaging until now.

– We’re having “fun” trying to get stuff published.  Currently we have 3 papers out there going through the wringer – one on anesthetic preconditioning, one on SIRT1 and cardiac metabolism, and another on autophagy.

– We filed a provisional patent on one of our drugs that protects the heart from IR injury when delivered at the moment of reperfusion, at a concentration of only 10 nM!  The paper on this is being written up for submission in the fall.

– Too many awesome meetings this year…. Jimmy & Sergiy at the AHA BCVS meeting in New Orleans this month. Paul & Owen are going to the TRiMAD meeting in State College PA this November. Paul is also presenting at the APS Physiological Bioenergetics meeting in Tampa in September, and the MiP bioenergetics workshop in Greenville NC in August, and attending the Society for Heart & Vascular Metabolism (SHVM) meeting in NY in October. That’s not counting the AHA sessions and SFRBM Annual meeting, both in November. This has been a seriously big year for conferences!