Welcome to the Cardiac Bioelectric Systems Laboratory!
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Recent News:
6/2019: Yin Wang, Renjun Zhu, and Leslie Tung publish their paper, "Contribution of potassium channels to action potential depolarization of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes" in British Journal of Pharmacology. 7/2019: Congratulations to Geran for completing his Ph.D. and dissertation entitled, "Applications of optogenetic tandem-cell units for in vitro study of cardiac electrophysiology"! 3/2019: Adriana Blazeski, Justin Lowenthal, Renjun Zhu, Jourdan Ewoldt, Kenneth R. Boheler, and Leslie Tung publish their paper, "Functional properties of engineered heart slices incorporating human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes" in Stem Cell Reports. 12/2018: Adriana Blazeski, Justin Lowenthal, Yin Wang, and Roald Teuben publish their paper "Engineered Heart Slice Model of Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy using Plakophilin-2 Mutant Myocytes" in Tissue Engineering Part A. 10/2018: Undergraduate researcher Shivani Pandey gives a platform presentation on her work "Development and optimization of an optogenetic cardiomyocyte point-pacing system" at the 2018 BMES annual meeting. 3/2018: Undergraduate researcher Himanshu Dashora was selected for a Fulbright award to India. He also was previously selected for a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) at JHU for his research proposal, "Investigating Fibroblast and Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte Interactions on Myocardial Tissue Slices," which he will complete with MD-PhD student Justin Lowenthal in the lab. Congrats, Himanshu! |