kopinkelabApr 25Looking for a new research technicianAre you looking for a gap year between grad and/or med school? And are you passionate about science? If the answer is yes to both,...
kopinkelabApr 25R01 got funded!!! YEAH!!!We are thrilled to announce that our R01 titled "Ciliary Hedgehog signaling during adult tissue repair and disease" got funded by NIAMS....
kopinkelabMar 8Newest Preprint out!Thanks to the hard work by Connor and Lylybell, we put together a great resource on how to visualize, measure, and quantify intramuscular...
kopinkelabDec 17, 2021Ending 2021 with a bang! To celebrate 2021, we decided to challenge the Bird lab to an Axe throwing contest. While, fortunately, no fingers were lost,...
kopinkelabSep 15, 2021Exciting science turned into stunning art...congrats Ale!Ale participated in the famous Nikon Small World Competition, and her image was selected as an "Image of Distinction"! It is titled:...
kopinkelabJun 3, 2021Our paper is finally published!Thanks to Ari and Martin for a fantastic collaboration. Also thanks to the anonymous reviewers, whose comments greatly improved the...
kopinkelabMar 20, 2021Congrats to Ale for presenting a winning poster at the annual NMPT symposium! It was fun to attend the Annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Symposium. Great talks and excellent science! Deservingly, Ale won a nice prize...
kopinkelabJan 21, 2021Our newest paper is out on bioRxiv!We established a fantastic collaboration with Ariel Waisman @ Fleni in Argentina earlier this year. With Ari's help, we developed a new,...
kopinkelabJan 20, 2021What a great surprise!I am really proud of my team for how they approached and overcame all the challenges of last year. As a symbol of unity, the lab decided...
kopinkelabNov 13, 2020Congratulation to Ale for receiving the NIH T32 Neuromuscular Plasticity Pre-doctoral traineeship We are excited for Ale to be awarded this training grant! The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular...
kopinkelabJul 9, 2020Loosing track of time on the microscope = some pretty 3D moviesSkeletal muscle (white) is being replaced by fat tissue (red). Nuclei in blue.
kopinkelabJun 17, 2020Our newest review is out!!!We are thrilled that our review is finally published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology If you are curious about how cilia...
kopinkelabApr 23, 2020Lab Meeting via Zoom With research labs limited to necessary personnel due to COVID-19, the team is still finding ways to keep the research going through lab...
kopinkelabMar 9, 20202020 Spring College of Medicine Poster SessionOur lab undergraduates presented with Ale Norris (not pictured) at the 2020 Spring College of Medicine Poster Session on February 25....
kopinkelabMar 2, 2020Cilia and FatOur recent work on how cilia control fat was featured on the UF Health news page.
kopinkelabFeb 5, 2020End-of-Year Celebration The Kopinke Lab teamed up with the Bird Lab at an escape room for an end-of-year celebration!
kopinkelabJul 11, 2019Our new Microscope is awesomeWe finally received our new Leica SPE microscope. Now, we can take bright- and widefield images with the DFC7000 camera and, with just...
kopinkelabJul 10, 2019Lots of things are going on...The lab has been busy and many projects have been pushed forward. Ale presented her new and exciting data at several local (UF Research...