Support
Research support for the Integrative Muscle Physiology Lab is provided by:
- The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH
- The American Heart Association
- Michigan Diabetes Research Center
- The Department of Physiology at Wayne State University
- Wayne State University
- School of Medicine
- OVPR
Undergraduate research has been supported by
- Wayne Physiology Summer Undergraduate Research Program
- Wayne SoM Summer Undergraduate Research Experience
- Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Program (Wayne State UROP)
External Collaborations
Along with continued collaboration with charles’s previous labs (1, 2, 3, 4), we have a number of external collaborations. Here’s just a few of them:
- Michelle Milne, PhD, St Mary’s College Maryland – Ultrasound Fiber Architecture and Tissue Characterization (Publications: 1)
- Weikang Ma and Tom Irving, IIT and BioCAT – X-ray diffraction of muscle fibers
- Karen Ball, PhD, Integrative Physiology and Health Science, Alma College – Titin in unusual species
- Jonathan A Kirk, PhD, Loyola University (Chicago) – Titin modifications (Publications: 1)
Internal Collaborations
We collaborate with several investigators at Wayne State University. Here’s several faculty that we work with:
- Patrick J Mueller, PhD – Exercise (Publications: 1 2)
- Young-Hoon Ahn, PhD – Titin degradation (Publications: 1)
- Luis Afonso, MD – Clinical/Translation with a focus on Ultrasound (Publications: 1)
- Donal O’Leary, PhD – Cardiovascular Hemodynamics and Ventricular Vascular coupling (Publications: 1)
- Noreen Rossi, MD, and Dragana Komenov, PhD- Cardiac ultrasound and cardiovascular impact of high fructose. (Publications: 1)
- Robert J Wessells, PhD – Drosophila models of exercise and muscle disease
- Mohammad Mehrmohammadi, PhD – Ultrasound