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The AHA Scientific Sessions, Chicago 2024 was an incredible conference for the Elrod Lab!
Joanne is the WINNER of the prestigious Louis N. and Arnold M. Katz Basic Science Research Prize for Early Career Investigators! This award is given by the American Heart Association at the Scientific Sessions. Joanne won for her work describing a novel regulator of mitochondrial biology important in heart and skeletal muscle disease. Congratulations Joanne!!
Sitges, Spain held the 2024 Cell Symposia: Multifaceted Mitochondria - the world’s most premier mitochondria conference was nothing but a success for the Elrod Lab.
Oniel won 1st place for his poster and beat out of 400 other posters!!
Henry hit it out of the park with his talk, “Discovery of conserved Ca2+ control points regulating mitochondrial metabolism”.
Oniel and his first place poster!
Excellent work Oniel and Henry!!
Henry presenting at Cell Symposia.
TRiMAD - Translational Research in Mitochondria, Metabolism, Aging and Disease 2024 took over Rochester, NY. The Elrod Lab had an excellent meeting discussing all things mitochondria!
Highlights from the week:
Tyler won best poster!
Elrod Lab trainees, Nadina and Oniel, presented posters during the annual Lewis Katz School of Medicine Dawn Marks Research Day.
Nadina took home 1st place for her poster!
The 2024 International Society for Heart Research NAS conference was held in Long Beach, California.
Highlights from this conference:
Henry and Joanne were selected for Lightning Talks - Henry won 1st place in the competition!
Henry gave a short talk during the Early Career Investigator Session titled “MICU Dimers Display Unique Interactomes and Decode Calcium Signaling to Regulate Mitochondrial Metabolism and Energetics Independent of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter”.
Dr. Elrod gave a highly anticipated talk, “Discovery of an Integrated Signaling System Regulating Ca2+ -dependent Changes in Metabolism”.
Way to go team!
The lab went to Frankford Hall to send off undergrads Abheya Nair, Anna Schmidt and Luke Sauers. These three have been dedicated to the Elrod Lab since 2022 and have worked tirelessly alongside their mentors. Their lab presence will be greatly missed.
Best of luck with your future endeavors!
The ACDC gathered in the Innovation NEST to celebrate Dr. Kishore’s newest NHLBI PPG grant focused on exosome treatment in heart failure. Congratulations Dr. Kishore, Dr. Tilley, Dr. Elrod and Dr. Koch (Duke) for this achievement!
The 2024 DCVS Scientific Retreat was held on April 10, 2024. It was a successful and strong science filled day.
The Elrod Lab really showed off with Henry and Nadina taking home Best Poster Awards! Joanne also gave a knock out presentation during the first session.
Way to represent Team Elrod!
The new face of the MERB lobby!
Elrod Lab winners featuring Nadina and Henry!
MD/PhD candidate, Michael Lazaropoulos defended his thesis “The Role of Acetyl-CoA Metabolism in Epigenetic Regulation of Myofibroblast Differentiation” on March 8th. The lab celebrated his successful defense at The Plough and the Stars in Old City afterwards. Mike is the first student to obtain a degree from the newly founded Aging + Cardiovascular Discovery Center!
Dr. Laz!!
Mike will head back to medical school to finish his MD. Congratulations Mike and best of luck!
The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions was back in Philly for 2023! A great time to catch up with colleagues, friends and former Temple trainees and continue to learn about the world of science while at this meeting.
The lab had a nice showing with John as a moderator for multiple sessions, and senior lab member Andrew also having the opportunity to moderate a session. And lastly, fellow senior lab member Joanne gave an abstract oral presentation.
The Aging + Cardiovascular Discovery Center hosted the AHA After Party at Howl at the Moon for colleagues around the world.
TRiMAD - Translational Research in Mitochondria, Metabolism, Aging and Disease was back in person for the first time in three years. A meeting to discuss all things mitochondria and an excellent opportunity to network, the Elrod Lab headed to Pittsburgh to take part in this remarkable event!
Highlights from the week:
Tyler was selected to present an abstract on mitochondria in aging.
Joanne gave a brief talk on the newest Elrod Lab discovery project: TMEM and it’s role as a positive regulator of mitochondrial calcium efflux.
This was a busy summer for the Elrod Lab! The trainees traveled the country attending and presenting at multiple conferences and even came home with multiple awards! Here is a recap of what went down:
Gordon Research Conference: Epigenetic Regulation of Cardiovascular Disease, Ventura, California: June 17-23, 2023
Mike gave a seminar talk and presented at paper entitled Nuclear Acetyl-CoA Metabolism Regulates Chromatin-Dependent Activation of the Myofibroblast Gene Program.
John lead a discussion on Metabolism and Epigenetics.
ISHR NAS, Madison, Wisconsin: June 27-30, 2023
Andrew was a first place poster winner.
Joanne was a finalist for the Richard J. Bing Outstanding Young Investigator Competition.
DAWN MARKS DAY: August 30, 2023
Henry received a Best Poster Award
Congratulations to all of our winners!
The Department of Cardiovascular Sciences held their Second Annual Scientific Retreat on March 23, 2023.
Many Elrod lab trainees presented posters including undergrad student, Ryan Gaspar. Andrew Gibb was selected to give a faculty seminar on metabolic control of fibroblast faste.
The Department of Cardiovascular Sciences held their annual holiday party at Top Tomato in Center City. It was a great time to spread some holiday cheer with all of the labs in the departments!
We can’t wait to see what 2024 brings!
Ryan Gaspar, our undergrad superstar and doppelgänger of his mentor Dr. Andrew Gibb, presented a poster titled “Genetic Deletion of Cardiomyocyte Glutamine Synthetase in a Model of HF Hints at Cardiomyocyte to Fibroblast Metabolic Crosstalk Mediating Fibrosis” at the College of Science and Technology 2022 Fall Symposium.
Excellent work Ryan!
Tensions were high, players were snatched and fun was had during our annual draft day for the Science Bowl fantasy football league.
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!
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)!
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.
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.