Solis Lab @ FSU

Beyond excited to serve as elected co-chair for the 2028 Motility & Cytoskeleton Symposium at the 72nd @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Meeting in San Diego. And we now have a brand-new Muscle Biology subgroup chaired by Dr. Samantha Harris and Dr. Hamilton!
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Very thankful with this invitation to present our work Wichita State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for the Chemistry Colloquium. Outstanding cadre of investigators, trainees, and great NMR and mass spec facilities! #Myofilament #Mechanobiology #Biophysics #Mechanotransduction

This is how we celebrated National Wear Red Day @americanheart.bsky.social #GoRed #HeartDiseaseAwareness

Our paper was selected for the cover of the next issue ACS Omega!
Access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

@pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

🫀Happy to announce the publication of this work in ACS Omega. Access article here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#MolecularDynamics #AlphaFold #GreenTea #DiastolicHeartDisease #Diastole #Biophysics @pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

Instead of turkey, our protein purification team worked hard to get some heart proteins baked! 🫀🧫
Happy Thanksgiving from the Solis Lab! 🦃 #Biophysics #MyoTwitter

Super productive time at the
@americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We presented one of our recent projects on mechanisms of troponin desensitization #cardiovasculardisease #AHA25 #HCM #HeartFailure #Cardiomyopathies

We had my postdoc advisor Dr. Brenda Russell as a guest speaker for our multi-PI lab meeting!

Late Nobel Prize physicist Paul Dirac must be rolling in his grave ⚛️🎃
#HappyHalloween #Physics

Our undergraduate student, Dev, was selected to present at the 2025 President’s Showcase of Research Excellence. This is on top of being awarded the 2025 IDEA grant that helped Dev develop his research project this last summer. Congrats, Dev, well deserved!

I had the great joy of visiting @illinoisstateu.bsky.social to present some of our research progress as part of the School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. A big tank you to the department for the kind invitation. Also, Normal, Il is an incredibly charming town!
#Mechanobiology #Biophysics

Thrilled to share that our abstract has been accepted at the 2025 @americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We hope to see you there on Sunday🫀🔬 #AHA25 #AmericanHeartAssociation #Cardiomyopathies #HeartDisease

Colitis induced ventricular alternans increases the risk for ventricular arrhythmia Inflammatory bowel disease was linked to an increased risk for conduction defects and ventricular arrhythmia. It coincides with dysregulation of gut microbiota, increased inflammation, and deregulatio...

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my newest paper in JMCC, which investigates the mechanism of ulcerative colitis induced ventricular arrhythmias 🧪

www.jmcc-online.com/article/S002...

Took a while. We should have just brought you here from the beginning 😂

6 Peking University (PKU), China
7 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
8 Nanjing University (NJU), China
9 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China
10 Tsinghua University, China

(5/5)

On this measure, Chinese institutions have gone from one to seven of the top 10.

The journal @nature.com compiles a list of leading research institutions ranked by counts of "high-quality research outputs." (www.nature.com/nature-index...) Surely not definitive, but the change over the six years from 2018 to 2024 is astonishing. (1/5)

There was an active shooter on campus. This is disturbing to experience in person. #FSU #Tallahassee #FloridaState

There was an active shooting on campus. We’re still under shelter in place. #FSU #FloridaState #Tallahassee

NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003 This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.

"Maintaining our current level of progress in biomedical research requires continued additional investment simply to keep pace."

This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) over time. https://ja.ma/3RQPP11 #MedSky

🫀⚡We are pleased to share our first review from the lab published in @apsphysiology.bsky.social! Here we dive deep into how mechanical forces transduce into biochemical signals that coordinate cardiac cell growth and heart adaptation. Access manuscript here ➔ journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Here’s the live capture 🙌

Such a pleasure to have Hanan from @ionoptix.bsky.social to come to FSU to help us setup this Ca2+ and contrqctility system to assess #cardiomyocyte function 🔬🧫🫀

It’s always such a pleasure to see @crand22.bsky.social from @aurorascientific.bsky.social this time at the Skeletal Muscle Biology Meeting at University of Florida! #Myotwitter #MyoBlue #Myology #Myofilament #Sarcomere

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

She left Canada because, I believe, women were not allow to pursue research careers. She went to Berlin, then U of Chicago, then U of Pittsburgh where she spent the bulk of her career. She was even (eventually) promoted to full professor.

We had a great time at the UF Myology Meeting. We took this meeting by storm with 2 posters presented by Dr. Tigro and 1 poster by Rhiannon! 😎💪 #GoNoles #MyoTwitter #MyoBlue #Myofilament #Sarcomere

Would you believe me if I tell you that I haven’t seen an alligator in my two years at FSU 🐊

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter.

Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations...

Another obscenity...

MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders.

If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here.

Please be as safe as you can.