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.
devin is off to st. louis - thanks and good luck!
Long time undergraduate lab student turned lab technician, Devin Kolmetzky, was accepted into Washington University’s medical school postbac program in St. Louis. The lab celebrated his contributions and future at the Frankford Hall beer garden. Congratulations Devin! Keep up the hard work!
Elrod lab past and present members: (Left to Right) Neil Shah, Mike Lazaropoulous, Joanne Garbincius, Andrew Gibb, Emma Murray, Jonathan Lambert, Devin Kolmetzky, Nadina Latchman, Trevor Tierney, and John Elrod.
Annual Graduate School research Day - lab wins awards
Jonathan and Emma both delivered talks and poster presentations at the 2019 Dawn Mark’s Day, a graduate school research symposium to highlight student’s work within all the biomedical sciences. Emma won 3rd place for her oral presentation and Jonathan won 3rd place for his poster presentation! Congratulations Emma and Jonathan! The CTM featured four winners in total. Congrats to the Drosatos and Tilley lab!
Jonathan Defends Thesis - Phd bestowed
Jonathan Lambert (PhD student) defended his thesis "MCUB Regulates the Molecular Composition of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Channel to Limit Mitochondrial Calcium Overload During Stress" on May 16th. The lab celebrated his successful defense at Evil Genius Brewery in Fishtown. Jonathan has now moved onto a postdoc position with Luca Scoranno in Italy. Congratulations Jonathan and best of luck!
Dr. Tim Luongo, alumni of the Elrod lab, came back to celebrate the newly minted Dr. Lambert. He brought his son to meet the lab as well.
Jonathan and his family in the Center for Translational Medicine
Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics, New York City - Pooja Wins Award
Dr. Pooja Jadiya attended the Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics: Alternatives to Amyloid Conference at the New York Academy of Sciences. The conference focused on the identification of novel pathways and therapeutics. Pooja won the F1000 Outstanding Presentation Prize and gave a oral talk on her work on the role of mitochondrial calcium efflux in AD.
Congratulations Pooja!
Pooja presenting her work on the role of mitochondrial calcium exchange in AD.
AHA Scientific Sessions - Chicago
John, Andrew and Emma attended AHA’s Scientific Sessions in Chicago. John gave a talk on a new mechanism regulating mitochondrial calcium uptake and Emma presented her work defining new mechanisms of membrane rupture in necrotic cell death.
BCVS 2018 - San Antonio, Texas
Dhanendra, Joanne, Jonathan and Dr. Elrod attended this years BCVS conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Joanne presented her work on MCU regulation in heart failure and Jonathan presented his work on MCUB regulation of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter channel.
Jonathan and Dhanendra both took home New Investigator Travel Awards. Congratulations to DT and Jonathan!
BCVS award winners! Three members of the lab were represented.
Elrod lab members - Dhanendra (left), Joanne (center), and Jonathan (right) after the BCVS dinner and awards ceremony.
Dr. Elrod presenting on a new regulatory mechanism controling mitochondrial calcium uptake.
Dr. Elrod was recognized for his service on the AHA Early Career Committee.
GRC 2018 - New London, New Hampshire
Dr. Elrod and Jonathan Lambert attended the Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference at Colby-Sawyer College . Dr. Elrod presented Alyssa Lombardi's recent work investigating mitochondrial calcium exchange's role in linking metabolism with the epigenome to modulate cellular differentiation. Jonathan Lambert's poster abstract was selected for an oral presentation and he presented work on how MCUB regulates the molecular composition of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter channel. The meeting was excellent with all the leaders in cardiac research attending.
GRC conference attendees. Temple representatives: Bottom row, right-to-left: Dr. Kishore (2nd), Dr. Koch (3rd), Dr. Elrod (5th), Jonathan Lambert (9th).
Jonathan taking in the great outdoors.
Jonathan at Fenway Park after the meeting with colleagues and friends.
Neil's Goodbye Celebration
Neil began in the lab as part of the Presidential Scholar program during his freshman year at Temple. He was a tour de force in the lab for 4+ years. To celebrate his acceptance into Rutgers Medical School we ventured out to the German beer garden, Frankford Hall, for happy hour. Congratulations Neil on your acceptance in to medical school!
Kentucky Derby Party
Andrew performed his this thesis work at the University of Louisville where he began a tradition of watching the Derby with friends. The tradition now continues in Philly!
POOJA WINS ELIOT STELLAR AWARD
Temple University hosted the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. Postdoctoral fellow, Pooja Jadiya, presented a poster on mitochondrial calcium efflux in Alzheimer’s disease and won the Eliot Stellar Research Award for her 1st place poster. Congratulations Pooja !
Pooja (second left) with other award winners.
ALYSSA DEFENDS THESIS
Alyssa Lombardi (MD/PhD student) defended her thesis "Mitochondrial Calcium Exchange links Metabolism with Epigenetic Changes to Control Cellular Differentiation" on April 25th. The lab celebrated her successful defense at 1 Tippling Place a speakeasy in Center City. Alyssa is now onto year three of medical school. Congratulations Alyssa!
6th Annual Temple Translational Science Symposium - ALYSSA WINS AWARD
Temple hosted it's 6th Annual Temple Translational Science Symposium. Pooja, Jonathan, Alyssa and Emma all presented their work. Alyssa won the Travel Award for her presentation on mitochondrial bioenergetic signaling in myofibroblast differentiation. Congratulations Alyssa!
Winners of the Student Travel Award.
