Are 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,...

We are thrilled to announce that our R01 titled "Ciliary Hedgehog signaling during adult tissue repair and disease" got funded by NIAMS....

Thanks to the hard work by Connor and Lylybell, we put together a great resource on how to visualize, measure, and quantify intramuscular...

To celebrate 2021, we decided to challenge the Bird lab to an Axe throwing contest. While, fortunately, no fingers were lost,...

Ale participated in the famous Nikon Small World Competition, and her image was selected as an "Image of Distinction"! It is titled:...

Thanks to Ari and Martin for a fantastic collaboration. Also thanks to the anonymous reviewers, whose comments greatly improved the...

It was fun to attend the Annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Symposium. Great talks and excellent science! Deservingly, Ale won a nice prize...

We established a fantastic collaboration with Ariel Waisman @ Fleni in Argentina earlier this year. With Ari's help, we developed a new,...

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...

We are excited for Ale to be awarded this training grant! The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular...

Skeletal muscle (white) is being replaced by fat tissue (red). Nuclei in blue.

We are thrilled that our review is finally published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology If you are curious about how cilia...

With research labs limited to necessary personnel due to COVID-19, the team is still finding ways to keep the research going through lab...

Our lab undergraduates presented with Ale Norris (not pictured) at the 2020 Spring College of Medicine Poster Session on February 25....

Our recent work on how cilia control fat was featured on the UF Health news page.

The Kopinke Lab teamed up with the Bird Lab at an escape room for an end-of-year celebration!

We finally received our new Leica SPE microscope. Now, we can take bright- and widefield images with the DFC7000 camera and, with just...

The lab has been busy and many projects have been pushed forward. Ale presented her new and exciting data at several local (UF Research...