Tensions were high, players were snatched and fun was had during our annual draft day for the Science Bowl fantasy football league.
Dawn Marks Day 2022 - trainee showcase
The Elrod Lab wins again at Dawn Marks Day, a graduate school research symposium to highlight work by trainees in the biomedical sciences. Mike Lazaropoulos (MD/PhD student) took home 1st place for his poster titled “Acetyl-CoA Synthesis by ATP-Citrate Lyase is Essential for Myofibroblast Differentiation and Persistence”.
Excellent work Mike!
AHA BCVS 2022 - Chicago, IL
The gang made their way to Chicago for American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions.
Joanne received the award for the top postdoctoral poster for her work titled “Mitochondrial calcium accumulation drives the progression of non-ischemic heart failure: Integrated lessons from genetic mouse models”. Mike presented a poster as well titled, “Acetyl-CoA Synthesis is Required for Chromatin Remodeling in Myofibroblast Differentiation and Persistence”.
Joanne caught up with former Elrod Lab post doc - DT (now faculty at Wake Forest)!
ISHR World Congress in Berlin, Germany - GIBB WINS PRESTIGIOUS BING AWARD
Berlin was a successful trip for the Elrod lab as they took on the ISHR World Congress!
Andrew won the prestigious Bing Young Investigator Award Competition for his presentation titled “Glutaminolysis is essential for myofibroblast persistence and in vivo targeting reverses fibrosis and cardiac dysfunction in heart failure”.
Joanne presented a poster titled "Manipulation of cardiomyocyte MCU expression reveals distinct consequences of mitochondrial calcium uptake in early versus late adaptation to sustained stress" and was awarded an ISHR World Congress Early Career Investigator Travel Award.
LKSOM Educational Excellence Awards
The Lewis Katz School of Medicine Educational Excellence Awards highlights the successes of the faculty mentors throughout the school of medicine. To win the award, current students and trainees nominate their mentors for consideration. Our valiant leader, John, was awarded the Research Mentoring Award. John’s trainees - graduate students and postdoctoral fellows have won countless awards for presentations and posters - nationally and internationally - and have been awarded numerous fellowships and grants, including two recent NIH K99 grants. Anyone working within the Elrod Lab knows that John is an excellent mentor and we are very happy to have others acknowledge the success he has had!
CONGRATS JOHN!
More about the awards ceremony here.
The man, the myth, the legend... Trevor is off to Penn!
Our wonderful lab manager, Trevor, is taking the next steps in his career to be the Director of Lab Operations at the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program. Trevor has been with the lab for over 6 years and has been instrumental in the success of everyone in the lab. The lab celebrated with with a few rounds of simulated golf at Five Iron Golf.
Best of luck Trev! We will miss you and all of your stories!
Pooja and DT off to wake forest university!
Pooja and DT both took the next steps in their academic careers as they begin tenure-track faculty positions in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. These two have been instrumental to the lab’s many successes and research direction yielding excellent publications and awards. They have been excellent mentors to numerous fellow trainees in the lab.
We will miss them greatly, but they are going to achieve big things and making massive strides in their prospective fields!
Annual Holiday Party 2021
All labs from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences got together to celebrate the holiday season! Karaoke singing and dancing was in full effect!
ISHR - Denver, Colorado - ANDREW IS THE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD WINNER!
The lab had a successful week at the International Society for Heart Research Conference in Denver, Colorado. This was our first ‘in-person’ meeting in two years! It was great to see old friends and colleagues as well as make some new ones.
The lab had a strong showing with many award winners! Andrew won the ISHR Young Investigator Competition Award, DT was a finalist for the ISHR Senior trainee Investigator Competition , and Joanne and Mike both won Michael Bristow Trainee Investigator Awards.
Nadina Wins Award At Graduate School Research Day
Nadina presented her work at the 2021 Dawn Mark’s Day, a graduate school research symposium to highlight work by trainees in the biomedical sciences. Nadina won 2nd place for her poster presentation! Congratulations Nadina!
Nadina and the other graduate school winners.
Draft Day for Science Bowl MMXXII
The lab gathered in the conference room to draft players for our fantasy football league, Science Bowl MMXXII. Current MD/PhD student, Henry Cohen has taken over as league commissioner amid controversy and high expectations.
Jonathan returns from Italy!
Jonathan came back to the lab for a visit to tell us all about his adventures in Italy! The lab enjoyed their time at Jonathan’s favorite brewery in the city, Evil Genius , and played many rounds of corn hole.
Introducing Dr. Emma Murray
Emma Murray (PhD student) defended her thesis "N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF) is a regulator of plasma membrane rupture and necrotic cell death" on April 8th. The lab celebrated her successful defense at Harper’s Garden in Center City. Emma has now transitioned to an industry position as a precision medicine scientist at the Rajant Corporation. Congratulations Emma and best of luck!
CTM faculty came out to celebrate Em’s achievements!
Elrod Lab Annual Holiday Party
Door decoration contest.
The lab did its best to spread holiday cheer and closed out an ugly 2020 with high hopes for the new year.
End of the year Lab Outing to Dim Sum House
The lab wrapped up a successful year at the Dim Sum House by Jane G’s in West Philly.
Annual Holiday Party
Temple’s Center for Translation Medicine and Center for Cardiovascular Research moved their annual holiday party to Philadelphia’s Brickwall Tavern. Karoake and merriment were enjoyed by all as we celebrated the end of another wonderful year at Temple.
AHA Scientific Sessions - Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Tomar, Garbincius and former trainee Tim Luongo win Travel Awards.
Big AHA was in the City of Brotherly Love. John and lab members: Dhanendra, Andrew, Joanne, and Emma, presented work in either session talks or poster format. The CTM and CVRC hosted a reception at Brickwall Tavern for colleagues from around the world.
URP Poster Presentations - Students win awards
Anh Huynh, Adam Mangold, and Jacob Cox, attended the fall undergraduate research program (URP) poster sessions at Temple University. Jacob presented on his work with PhD student Emma Murray on necrotic cell death and made it to the second round of the competition. A special congratulations to Anh and Adam who received Honorable Mention Awards for placing in the Top 3% of the nearly 200 posters presented.
Congratulations on a job well done!
TRiMAD Conference - Philadelphia, PA - Awards won!
The Elrod lab travelled down to CHOP to attend the 9th Annual TRiMAD - Conference on Mitochondria. Everyone enjoyed catching up with our cross-town colleagues and mitochondrial experts from Pennsylvania and across the country. Five lab members presented posters on their research, with Emma’s and Andrew’s abstracts featured as oral presentations . Joanne took home a poster award for her work on NCLX.
AHA BCVS 2019 - Boston - Lab wins awards
The Elrod Lab travelled to Boston and took BCVS 2019 by storm. Drs. Garbincius and Tomar opened the first day of the conference as featured trainee talks detailing their work on mitochondrial calcium handling in non-ischemic heart disease and novel functions of MICU1 in mitochondrial structure.
Dr. Gibb, Emma, and Jonathan also presented posters on their research on metabolism, cell death, and mitochondrial calcium uptake. The lab concluded the meeting by bringing home numerous awards at the banquet dinner. Congratulations on all your hard work!
Andrew Gibb: New Investigator Travel Award
Joanne Garbincius: New Investigator Travel Award, and Abstract Selected for the Oral Presentation
Jonathan Lambert: Outstanding Poster Presentation Award
Dhanendra Tomar: Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, Young Investigator Award from South Asian Heart Association, and Abstract Selected for a talk.
