Dr. Emily Marcinkowski named new Director of Surgery Advanced Development for fourth year medical students
Dr. Emily Marcinkowski is the new Director of Surgery Advanced Development for fourth-year medical students. Her appointment by the UK College of Medicine Curriculum Committee became official this September.
She joins Dr. Cortney Lee as a co-director in the Department of Surgery's Medical School Education clerkships.
Reading: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
This month's suggested reading is "How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing" by Paul Silvia. Some people find writing easy. Some find it hard. Either way, from your graduate training on you get to do a lot of it. This slim volume (just 110 pages!) provides some guidelines to help you get it done (hint: just do it).
Publications for the month of August, 2019
In August the Department had six new publications listed in PubMed.
1: Slaughter KB, Dutch RE. Transmembrane domain dissociation is required for Hendra F protein fusogenic activity. J Virol. 2019 Aug 28. pii: JVI.01069-19. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01069-19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31462574.
Memorial Gift Honors Alumna, Benefits Cancer Research
Subramanian Lab publishes work on hepatic inflammation
From Scientific Reports | Nature Research
miR-146a Deficiency Accelerates Hepatic Inflammation Without Influencing Diet-induced Obesity in Mice
Aida Javidan1, Weihua Jiang1, Michihiro Okuyama1, Devi Thiagarajan1, Lihua Yang1, Jessica J. Moorleghen1, Latha Muniappan1 & Venkateswaran Subramanian1,2
1Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. 2Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. Latha Muniappan is deceased.
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Marks Official Opening of UK College of Medicine-Northern Kentucky Campus
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine joined partners St. Elizabeth Healthcare and Northern Kentucky University on Thursday for a ribbon cutting ceremony that officially marked the opening of its new Northern Kentucky Campus.
The new site welcomed an inaugural class of 35 medical students during a white coat ceremony in August. This will be the UK College of Medicine’s second four-year regional campus. The first in Bowling Green opened in 2018.
Recent Faculty Publication "Myocardial-restricted ablation of the GTPase RAD results in a pro-adaptive heart response in mice."
To view this publication on the Journal of Biological Chemistry, click here.
New Grant Helps Detect Hearing Loss in Infants
What Drives Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes? Not Glucose, Says New Research
To date, the underlying causes of inflammation in obesity and Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have been poorly understood, which has hampered efforts to develop treatments to prevent complications from a disease that is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
But new research at the University of Kentucky shows that changes to mitochondria — the powerhouse of cells — drive chronic inflammation from cells exposed to certain types of fats, shattering the prevailing assumption that glucose was the culprit.
