The Annual Physiology and Biophysics Halloween Potluck was Spooktacular! Thank you to Leoamie Jefferson for a boo-tiful job planning fun and games and fellowship–she even brought Trick or Treaters. Adam Corken, Postdoctoral Fellow, transformed the hallway and break room in to a bone-chilling dark and creepy spider’s den to set the atmosphere. Adam was also […]
Congratulations Maya Merriweather – 2019 Phillip L. Rayford Scholarship Winner
The 2019 Phillip L. Rayford Memorial Scholarship winner is Maya Merriweather. Maya received a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 2017. She is a member of the Student Advocacy Council and is Vice President of the Edith Irby Jones Chapter of the Student National Medical Association. She is also the […]
Great Job
Congratulations are in order to Pankaj Patyal who was awarded first place for his poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience held on Sept. 30, 2019 at UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. The title of the presentation is “The wmN1 Enhancer Region of the Mouse Myelin Proteolipid Protein Gene (mPlp1) is Indispensable for […]
Congratulations Ph.D. Candidates
Congratulations to Departmental Graduate Students Receiving White Coats Rebecca Ring, a graduate student in Dr. Maria Almeida-Schuller’s lab, Zinia D’Souza, a graduate student in Dr. Vladimir Lupashin’s lab, and Caitlin Caperton, an M.D./Ph.D. student of Drs. Aime Franco and Jerry Ware received their white coats at the recent UAMS Graduate School’s Research Induction Ceremony. The […]
Congratulations Zinia D’Souza
Ms. Zinia D’Souza for successfully passing her Ph.D. Qualifying Exam! This summer Zinia presented her research at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Membrane Biology and was selected to participate in the EMBO Practical Course on Current Methods in Cell Biology, which will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany in September. She also published her […]
Congratulations, Dr. Chowdhury
Parimal Chowdhury, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and a longtime member of the American Physiological Society was awarded APS FELLOW status by the governing board of the American Physiological Society on June 4, 2019. The rank of Fellow is an elite member status reserved to honor distinguished leaders who […]
Welcome Summer Students!
This summer session, a number of our faculty are hosting undergraduate students in their laboratories to conduct research under the auspices of the INBRE and SURP Programs. We welcome these students to UAMS and to our Department. INBRE- Richard ‘Jon’ Ward, Harding University (Dr. Rosie Simmen) SURP- Daija Green, Jackson State University (Drs. Frank Simmen […]
Symposium Presentation
Parimal Chowdhury, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and his team of collaborators that include students and faculty members from UAMS, UCA and UALR, presented five papers in 27th Annual Arkansas Space Grant Consortium Symposium held at Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in Morrilton, Arkansas on April 19, 2019. Presentations were in both […]
Congratulations Dr. Wight
Patricia Wight, Ph.D., received a NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke R01 grant entitled “Elucidation of Mechanisms Controlling Human and Mouse Myelin PLP1 Gene Expression” $1,093,750 (April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2024)
Congratulations Dr. Ware
In the most recent issue of Nature Medicine (April 1, 2019), the blood platelet receptor, glycoprotein Ib a, is shown to be critical for the develop of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and in particular the progression to liver cancer (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0379-5). Jerry Ware, Ph.D., (Professor, Physiology & Biophysics) participated in the study. Dr. Ware and his […]