The admin team wanted to have some holiday fun for the Holidays. We did a “Deck the Doors” contest. Each lab had to decorate their doors in creative fun ways. We also provided lunch for the department. We wanted to show them how much we appreciate them and all their hard work.

On December 4, 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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

Dr. Bagchi and her team recently published the lab’s first original research article where they incorporated human iPSC-derived cardiac fibroblasts in 3D-bioprinted hydrogel system. This study helped uncover non-canonical epigenomic remodeling of fibrotic genes in the setting of acute onset of cardiometabolic disease. The findings also revealed sex-specific differences in these gene programs emphasizing biological […]

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Graduate School held their induction ceremony on Monday September 8. Walter Aragon recieved his laboratory coat that symbolized his mentor-mentee relationship and to celebrate the initiation of dissertation research. One of the hallmark achievements for students pursuing the Doctor of Philosophy degree is their recognition as a formal […]

Dr. Bagchi was invited to publish a peer-reviewed article in the reputed journal Physiology. The article is titled “Histone Deacetylases in Metabolism: The Known and the Unexplored” and was included in the May print issue of the journal. Physiology, with a 2024 impact factor of 10.3, is published by the American Physiological Society, highlights cutting-edge […]

Dr. Bagchi’s lab received quite the attention at the American Physiology Summit in Baltimore held in April 2025. The lab had two abstracts submitted, both of which were competitively selected for oral presentations. One of the abstracts focused on adipose-heart crosstalk mechanisms in early onset of obesity, was selected as an abstract of distinction and […]

Hayley Sabol successfully completed her Dissertation Defense through the Cell Biology and Physiology Program. Hayley Sabol completed her Dissertation Defense on Tuesday July 22, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. in the Sam Walton Auditorium Winthrop Cancer Institute 10th floor. His presentation is titled “Targeting and Characterization of Notch Signals in Multiple Myeloma Disease Progression” Her Advisor was […]