Lots of recent happenings in the lab to report…<\/p>\n
(1) Congratulations to Owen Smith, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in March!\u00a0 Owen’s final paper from his thesis work is currently in revision, but you can see the pre-print at BioRxiv here<\/a>.\u00a0 Owen is going on to do a post-doc in the lab of Roman Eliseev<\/a> in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research.<\/p>\n (2) On April 11th we have another graduation – Jimmy Zhang is finishing up the PhD part of his MD\/PhD and returning to medical school.\u00a0 Jimmy’s last paper on his thesis work is also in revision, but no pre-print yet as per journal policy (boo!)\u00a0 The short version – not everything in this<\/a> paper appears to be 100% correct.<\/p>\n (3) We have a new post-doc’ in the lab. Chaitanya Kulkarni (Chaitu) came from Bob Kern<\/a>‘s lab in the Medicinal Chemistry program at the University of Iowa, with a strong background in developing mito-targeted drugs.<\/p>\n (4) Our paper on the metabolic effects of NMN is also in revision, but the BioRxiv pre-print is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n (5) Some work on metabolomics of the developing embryonic heart, performed with our collaborators Steve Ebert<\/a> at UCF and George Porter<\/a> here in Rochester was published<\/a> in J Biol Chem<\/em>.<\/p>\n With another paper about to be submitted, all being well we should be looking at hlf a dozen primary science manuscripts in press by late summer, plus a couple of reviews. Publish or perish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of recent happenings in the lab to report… (1) Congratulations to Owen Smith, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in March!\u00a0 Owen’s final paper from his thesis work is currently in revision, but you can see the pre-print at … Continue reading