Ken Campbell

We will soon be looking for a comp biologist or bioinformatician to work on a number of linked projects within the lab - main focus is on molecular control of muscle

Before the official advert is published, I’m hoping to spread the news to any talented near-finishing PhDs or keen postdocs!

Saying yes to opportunity: How Mindy Thompson built a career at UK

Lovely profile of Mindy Thompson, one of our lab's great alumni.
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On behalf of our team at @ukresearch.bsky.social, highlighting "Patients who donate biospecimens for research leave a valuable and underappreciated scientific legacy".

We can all remember that behind every data point is a person, a family, and a story.

www.ahajournals.org/eprint/8HECU...

Close-up of a golden Nobel Prize medal featuring Alfred Nobel's profile and Roman numerals on a detailed anatomical background.

Congrats to new #NobelLaureates Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries of peripheral immune tolerance and T reg cells. Read more: https://ow.ly/aiHn50X74mS #NobelPrize #Physiology

Jop van Berlo and the header from the Circulation Research article.

A recent article in Circulation Research highlights findings from the van Berlo research lab, indicating that the cytoskeletal protein Septin4 plays a role in the onset of cardiac fibrosis by modifying the function of calcineurin. Read the full article: buff.ly/EUNsdKG #UMNresearch #Cardiosky

RRAD-reduction reveals efficacy of targeting L-type calcium channel regulation for treatment of heart failure AbstractAims. Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is a major health problem. Increasing L-type calcium channel (LTCC) activity deteriorate

Delighted to see myocardial samples donated by patients and organ donors at @ukresearch.bsky.social supporting another important publication. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute.

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Assistant/Associate Professor - Tenure Track - Physiology - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor job with University of Michigan Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 674815 Tenure track assistant/associate professor in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Our department is recruiting a new tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor. Come join the #1 physiology department in the country and some awesome colleagues doing high impact science and training the next generation of scientists

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We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

#musclesyneRgies 1.2.5.9009 (development version)

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𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚜::𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕_𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚋("𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚣/𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚢𝚗𝚎𝚁𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜")

Improved function CoA with non-duplicated angles and robust quadrant handling. Please update!

#rstats #opensource

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Taylor Swift's engagement picture and GelBox

GelBox - reproducible analysis of gels and immunoblots

campbell-muscle-lab.github.io/GelBox/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39092999/

Danicamtiv reduces myosin’s working stroke but activates the thin filament by accelerating actomyosin attachment | PNAS Heart failure is a leading cause of death worldwide, and even with current treatments, the 5-y transplant-free survival rate is only ~50 to 70%. As...

Congrats to Brent Scott from the Greenberg lab for this new paper on danicamtiv's mechanism of action.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to see our FiberSim code being put to such good use.
campbell-muscle-lab.github.io/FiberSim/

Cardiac CapZ Regulation During Acute Exercise in Female Mice CapZ regulates actin addition at the barbed ends of sarcomeric actin. At rest, phosphorylated CapZIP slows addition, and dephosphorylated CapZIP promotes a wobble state to allow actin cycling. During...

Can you really repair an engine while it's running? 👩🏽‍🔧

The heart can. 💪🏼🫀

Our latest @faseborg.bsky.social paper shows how the protein 'CapZ' helps heart muscle to keep running during exercise. ⛹🏼‍♀️🏊‍♂️

#Exercise #Heart #Muscle #BasicScience #Cardiology

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MiR-132 inhibition improves myocardial strain in a large animal model of chronic left ventricular adverse remodelling AbstractAims. Cardiac miR-132 has been proposed as a target for heart failure (HF) therapy. CDR132L, a rationally designed synthetic oligonucleotide inhibi

Always exciting to see new HF agents in development! I enjoyed reading this interesting study using porcine model of HF with some promising outcomes for MiR-132. Available now in @escardio.bsky.social journal EHJ-IMP: academic.oup.com/ehjimp/artic...

Very happy to have been awarded a NIRG from the MRC. Stay tuned for some exciting (I think, but being biased) postdoc positions within our lab!

Kinetic Modeling of mant-ATP Turnover to Interpret the Biochemically Defined Myosin Super-Relaxed State The fluorescent ATP analog mant-ATP has become a valuable tool for quantifying occupancy of the myosin super-relaxed (SRX) state, a biochemically inactive conformation of myosin in striated muscle. In...

Another great paper from Dan Beard's group at @umich.edu addressing measurements of the SRX / IHM / OFF state in myosin.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Q&A with Caroline Geisler: Exploring new path to weight loss — minus side effects The most effective obesity medications of today — GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy — come with significant side effects, most commonly nausea and vomiting. Researchers in the UK College of Pharm...

More great research at @ukresearch.bsky.social

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Keeneland investigator finds healing and humor in heart surgery at UK On an early morning drive to Keeneland, Billy Fryer felt a pain in his chest he had never felt before. Thanks to UK HealthCare’s partnership with Keeneland and the compassionate work of his care team,...

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UK engineering researcher leads NSF‑funded initiative to model heart fibrosis with machine learning Researchers in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky are teaming up with researchers at Michigan State University to develop cutting-edge simulations of hea...

Excited to be working with Jonathan Wenk (University of Kentucky) and Lik-Chuan Lee (Michigan State University) on computer modeling of cardiac fibrosis.

uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...

🎉 TRPA1-derful news 🎉 Dr. Dan Conklin has been successful in obtaining AHA funding to explore how inhaled anesthetics affect cardiorespiratory function through Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin-1 (TRPA1). #AHA #TeamConklin #TRPA1 #cardiosky @ahascience.bsky.social @uoflenvirome.bsky.social

Great talk by Greg Sawicki at #AMAM2025 on tuning series elastic stiffness (e.g. tendon) in legged locomotion.

Congratulations to Dr. Marcin Wysoczynski, Associate Professor in the Center, on his appointment to the Editorial Board of Circulation Research. Well done, Dr. Wysoczynski. @ahajournals.bsky.social #cardiosky

164414 Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences

Our department @ucph.bsky.social is looking for a new faculty member! This is a nice environment for an ambitious PI with a research focus on cardiovascular system, metabolism and/or drug discovery! Happy to answer questions if you are interested!

Modulation of striated-muscle contractility by a high-affinity myosin-targeting peptide Myosin-based regulation has emerged as a fundamental new concept governing both cardiac and skeletal muscle contractile function during both health and disease states. Myosin-targeted therapeutics hav...

Congrats to Drs. Kampourakis, McDonald, Root and their collaborators on this cool study. Always excited to see new modulators of sarcomere function.

Modulation of striated-muscle contractility by a high-affinity myosin-targeting peptide: Biophysical Journal www.cell.com/biophysj/ful...

The Collins lab welcomed Nora Anderson to the team today. Nora joins as a research technician, who will assist with our ongoing pregnancy studies. 🫀🤰#cardiosky

Congratulations to Avery Kendall for their first of many papers being accepted for publication today. Watch this space for the next one! #cardiosky @apspublications.bsky.social

ASI is hiring!

Aurora Scientific is #hiring a Life Science Product Consultant. This position is dedicated to building and maintaining a lasting relationship with our customers by conducting sales and post-sales support activities.

Apply now!
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Helping to raise awareness for women’s cardiovascular health at the 2025 Kentuckiana AHA Go Red For Women Luncheon @ahascience.bsky.social

UK HealthCare marks 600 life-changing heart transplants

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The importance of serial sarcomere addition for muscle function and the impact of aging | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society During natural aging, skeletal muscle experiences impairments in mechanical performance due, in part, to changes in muscle architecture and size, notably with a loss of muscle cross-sectional area (CS...

If interested, each chapter of my thesis can be read in these publications…

Literature review: “The importance of serial sarcomere addition for muscle function and the impact of aging”

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Probably do not need another social media account but for those who wish to follow a photographic journey of the Collins lab, we now have a lab Instagram page. #cardiosky