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Our wonderful lab manager, Trevor, is taking the next steps in his career to be the Director of Lab Operations at the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program. Trevor has been with the lab for over 6 years and has been instrumental in the success of everyone in the lab. The lab celebrated with with a few rounds of simulated golf at Five Iron Golf.
Best of luck Trev! We will miss you and all of your stories!
Pooja and DT both took the next steps in their academic careers as they begin tenure-track faculty positions in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. These two have been instrumental to the lab’s many successes and research direction yielding excellent publications and awards. They have been excellent mentors to numerous fellow trainees in the lab.
We will miss them greatly, but they are going to achieve big things and making massive strides in their prospective fields!
All labs from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences got together to celebrate the holiday season! Karaoke singing and dancing was in full effect!
The lab had a successful week at the International Society for Heart Research Conference in Denver, Colorado. This was our first ‘in-person’ meeting in two years! It was great to see old friends and colleagues as well as make some new ones.
The lab had a strong showing with many award winners! Andrew won the ISHR Young Investigator Competition Award, DT was a finalist for the ISHR Senior trainee Investigator Competition , and Joanne and Mike both won Michael Bristow Trainee Investigator Awards.
Nadina presented her work at the 2021 Dawn Mark’s Day, a graduate school research symposium to highlight work by trainees in the biomedical sciences. Nadina won 2nd place for her poster presentation! Congratulations Nadina!
Nadina and the other graduate school winners.
The lab gathered in the conference room to draft players for our fantasy football league, Science Bowl MMXXII. Current MD/PhD student, Henry Cohen has taken over as league commissioner amid controversy and high expectations.
Jonathan came back to the lab for a visit to tell us all about his adventures in Italy! The lab enjoyed their time at Jonathan’s favorite brewery in the city, Evil Genius , and played many rounds of corn hole.
CTM faculty came out to celebrate Em’s achievements!
Door decoration contest.
The lab did its best to spread holiday cheer and closed out an ugly 2020 with high hopes for the new year.
The lab wrapped up a successful year at the Dim Sum House by Jane G’s in West Philly.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
