The links below contain all of the material you need for 2019 University of Kentucky Cardiovascular Research Day.
Grocery shopping can be overwhelming given the number of choices down every aisle and deciding between what is healthy or not can add to that challenge. It is possible to stick to a healthy meal plan – you just have to plan ahead.
Here are grocery guidelines to reduce the amount of dietary fat, sugar, and salt that is associated with a higher risk for obesity, heart attack, diabetes and other diseases.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
To view this publication on the Journal of Biological Chemistry, click here.
