Muscle Metabolism and Physiology Lab

Nick Berger presents in Boston, MA. Partial Knockout of Skeletal Muscle Dynamin-Related Protein 1 Modulates Mitochondrial Quality Controls Proteins After Exercise.

Nick Berger presents in Long Beach, CA. Effects of Partial Knockout of Skeletal Muscle Dynamin-Related Protein 1 on Skeletal Muscle Characteristics in Lean and Obese Mice.

Congratulations to Masters student Grace Rosen for successfully defending her M.S. thesis entitled “Effects of mitochondrial fission inhibition of mitochondrial quality and muscle function in D2-mdx mouse model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”. Grace recently accepted a position at Biocytogen at… Continue Reading →

Nick presented skeletal muscle characteristics of lean and obese Drp-1 partial knockout C57BL6 mice. Grace presented on mitochondrial structure and function and resulting effects of inhibition of mitochondrial fission in D2-mdx mice. Elizabeth presented on methods of generating a homozygous… Continue Reading →

Our paper titled “Development and characterization of a first-in-class adjustable-dose gene therapy system” was published in Gene. Remedium Bio and the Zou Lab announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating the performance of the adjustable dose gene therapy platform –… Continue Reading →

Remedium Bio announces the receipt of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to support the development of the Prometheus™ dose-adjustable gene therapy platform technology. Dr. Zou is Co-Investigator on this funded project. Our collaboration with them… Continue Reading →

Nick Berger presents in Denver, CO. Voluntary Wheel Running Alters Mitochondrial Fission Protein DRP1 in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer.

Grace presents Impaired mitochondrial quality control in skeletal muscles from C57- and D2-mdx model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Nick Berger receives The Exercise and Health Sciences (EHS) Discovery and Enrichment Travel Award; The EHS Outstanding Research Assistant Award Atsutaro Fujishiro receives The EHS Undergraduate Research Award

Nicole, Jared, Nick, Atsutaro, Annalisa, and Grace present posters at research day (Left to Right)