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UAMS at the UAFS Research Den

On December 4th, two of our graduate students presented their research to undergraduates and faculty at the UA-Fort Smith Research Den.  Steven Murdock (Craig Forrest’s lab) and Walter Saul Aragon-Ramirez (Vladimir Lupashin’s lab) did a great job presenting and answering questions about life as a graduate student at UAMS. Our GPIBS director, Karl Boehme, drove them […]

Dr. Bellido gets invited to present in Tokyo Japan

Dr. Teresita Bellido was invited to present her lecture, “Role of osteocytes in bone pathophysiology” at the prestigious 2025 Japan Bone Academy in Tokyo on November 24th. Her presentation summarized advances in the field regarding osteocyte biology and their role in the mechanisms of bone diseases and their treatment.

2025 Department Town Hall

On November 19, 2025, the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology held our annual Town Hall. We celebrated in the Hamlen Boardroom, 12th floor, of the Spine Institute from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Publication of Themed Collection with an Endocrine Focus, Co-Edited by Dr. Rosie Simmen

A Themed Collection ‘Transcriptional Drivers of Endocrine Disorders’ led by Deputy Editor Professor Emerita Rosalia (Rosie) Simmen and Senior Editor Professor Gwen Lomberk (Medical College of Wisconsin) was published recently in Endocrine Connections, a journal of the European Society of Endocrinology and the UK Society of Endocrinology.  The Special Collection of four reviews and five primary research articles with an accompanying Editorial […]