The Medical Physiology program will hold its annual retreat at the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom on Thursday-Friday, January 28-29, 2021. Medical Physiology students attended sessions and seminars on preparing applications for professional school.
Cassandra Barone, a doctoral student in the Center for Aerospace Physiology, headed by Dr. Michael Decker, has been name a Solar System Ambassador in the Solar System Exploration program of NASA Science.
The Department will host an Open House for all students, parents, and undergraduate advisors interested in learning more about the M.S. in Medical Physiology Post-Bacc program on Saturday, April 17, 2021. This will be held via Zoom.
For more information: https://physiology.case.edu/education/department-open-house/
August 1, 2021 is the deadline for submitting applications for the MS in Medical Physiology Program (Post-Bacc Program). The admissions committee will review your application once it is complete and all application materials are received. If you have any questions, please contact the program at msmpadmissions@case.edu. Contact us if you need assistance.
Join our TAs (current students and alumni) as they answer all your questions about the student experience in Case Western's Medical Physiology Program. Learn more about the curriculum, enrichment experiences, advising/ support services, life in Cleveland, and more during this casual virtual event.
The Department of Physiology and Biophysics held its annual Recknagel Symposium on Monday, December 14, 2020 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Doctoral students who entered the program over the last year presented research from their lab rotations.
The department established the annual Recknagel Symposium in memory of Professor Richard Recknagel, who was Chair of the Department of Physiology from 1976 until 1986 and an admired thinker and investigator who took a keen interest in mentoring young students and faculty.
The event was held remotely, via Zoom.
Solomiia Boyko, a Ph.D. student mentored by Dr. Wïtold Surewicz, has had the paper "Regulatory mechanisms of tau protein fibrillation under the conditions of liquid-liquid phase separation” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Dr. Fraser Moss and Dr. Walter Boron have had published in the Journal of Physiology their paper "Carbonic anhydrases enhance activity of endogenous Na-H exchangers and not the electrogenic Na/HCO3 cotransporter NBCe1-A, expressed in Xenopus oocytes" (https://doi.org/10.1113/JP280143) and the associated perspective article on their research "The devil is in the C-tail: a NBCe1-carbonic anhydrase bicarbonate transport metabolon?" (Jeppe Praetorius) (https://doi.org/10.1113/JP280143).
The American Physiological Society has recognized for distinction in scholarship the authors of the paper "Rapid measurement of cardiac neuropeptide dynamics by capacitive immunoprobe in the porcine heart" published in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
Nicholas Kluge*, Michael Joseph Dacey, Joseph Hadaya, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Shyue-An Chan*, Jeffrey Laurence Ardell, and Corey Smith*
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00674.2020
*Smith lab member
Eva Gilker, a first year Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Walter Boron, was the winner of the Morning Group One poster award at the 43rd Biomedical Graduate Student Symposium on November 9, 2020. The symposium is sponsored by the CWRU Graduate Student Council.
Michael Babinchak, Ph.D.*, Benjamin Dumm and Solomiia Boyko, in the lab of Dr. Wïtold Surewicz had the paper,
“Small molecules as potent biphasic modulators of protein liquid-liquid phase separation”
accepted for publication in Nature Communications 11, 5554 (2020)
W. Michael Babinchak, Benjamin K. Dumm, Sarah Venus, Solomiia Boyko, Andrea A. Putnam, Eckhard Jankowsky & Wïtold K. Surewicz
https:/ /doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19211-z
*Dr. Babinchak was a doctoral candidate in the Surewicz lab who graduated in March 2020.
Yuan Cai is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics doctoral program mentored by and in the lab of Dr. Christopher Ford, formerly an associate professor in the Department and now a professor at the University of Colorado - Denver and an adjunct here, publicly defended his doctoral dissertation via Zoom at 12:00 noon EDT/10:00 a.m. MDT on Friday, October 30, 2020.
Yuan's dissertation is titled "Striatal acetylcholine-dopamine interactions in physiology and pathophysiology".
Yuan transferred from Dr. Ford's lab at Case to his new lab at UC-Denver when Dr. Ford moved to Denver in September 2017.
He is heading to a postdoc position at MIT.
The lab of Corey Smith, Ph.D. has had two papers accepted for publication:
“Fast in vivo detection of myocardial norepinephrine levels in the beating porcine heart”
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Shyue-An Chan, Marmar Vaseghi, Nicholas Kluge, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Jeffrey Ardell, Corey Smith
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“Rapid measurement of cardiac neuropeptide dynamics by capacitive immunoprobe in the porcine heart”
Nicholas Kluge, Michael Dacey, Joseph Hadaya, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Shyue-An Chan, Jeffrey L. Ardell, Corey Smith
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Sandip Basak, Ph.D., Arvind Kumar, Ph.D., and Eric Gibbs, Ph.D., postdocs in the lab of Dr. Sudha Chakrapani, have had the paper
"High-resolution structures of multiple 5-HT3AR-setron complexes reveal a novel mechanism of competitive inhibition"
accepted for publication in eLife.
Sandip Basak, Arvind Kumar, Steven Ramsey, Eric Gibbs, Abhijeet Kapoor, Marta Filizola, and Sudha Chakrapani
Postdoctoral scholars Rihua Wang, Ph.D. and Di Hu, Ph.D. and Senior Research Assistant Xiaoyan Sun, members of the lab of Professor Xin Qi, Ph.D. are authors of the paper, "Oligodendroglial glycolytic stress triggers inflammasome activation and neuropathology in Alzheimer’s disease", which has been accepted for publication in Science Advances. Xinwen Zhang, Ph.D., a former visiting scholar in the Qi lab, was also an author.
Authors: Xinwen Zhang, Rihua Wang, Di Hu, Xiaoyan Sun, Hisashi Fujioka, Kathleen Lundberg, Ernest R. Chan, Quanqiu Wang, Rong Xu, Margaret E. Flanagan, Andrew A. Pieper and Xin Qi
Members of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics Center for Aerospace Physiology lab, led by Associate Professor Michael J. Decker, Ph.D., have had published the paper,
“Neurovascular and cortical responses to hyperoxia: enhanced cognition and electroencephalographic activity despite reduced perfusion”
Journal of Physiology 598.18 (2020) pp 3941–3956
Elizabeth G. Damato, Tod A. Flak, Ryan S. Mayes, Kingman P. Strohl, Aemilee M. Ziganti, Alireza Abdollahifar, Chris A. Flask, Joseph C. LaManna, Michael J. Decker
Sudha Chakarpani, Ph.D. has been appointed the Director of the Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology (CCMSB).
Dr. Chakrapani is the Joseph T. Wearn, M.D. University Professor in Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and the Director of the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Walter Boron, M.D., Ph.D., the David N. and Inez Myers/Antonio Scarpa Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, was honored for his recent appointment as a Distinguished University Professor at the Fall University Convocation on Wednesday, August 26.
Joseph C. LaManna, Ph.D., the Silber Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society.
The rank of Fellow is reserved to honor distinguished leaders who have demonstrated excellence in science, have made significant contributions to the physiological sciences, and who have served the Society.
August 1, 2021 is the deadline for submitting applications for the MS in Medical Physiology Program (Post-Bacc Program). The admissions committee will review your application once it is complete and all application materials are received. If you have any questions, please contact the program at msmpadmissions@case.edu. Contact us if you need assistance.
