Xinyue Liu, a third-year PhD candidate, recently wrote and submitted her first and second first-author manuscripts to bioRxiv! These are currently under review but catch an early sneak peek before they are officially published. Click on each link below. FAP-intrinsic Hedgehog signaling controls intramuscular adipogenesis, fibrosis, and myofiber regeneration | bioRxiv: Xinyue found that FAPs are the primary cellular mediators of Hedgehog signaling during muscle repair, using their intrinsic...

Hailey Jones concluded the second year of her PhD on a positive note! She was recently awarded the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Team T32 Training Grant. As this is a team-science oriented T32, Hailey and Yancey Williams from Kyle Allen's lab chose to initiate a collaboration due to their aligned research interests, and both were awarded this T32. We are very eager to see where her work leads her.

PhD Candidate in the Kopinke Lab, Kiara Fierman, won big at the Annual University of Florida Neuromuscular Plasticity Symposium, organized by the UF Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Program and the Breathing REsearch And THErapeutics (BREATHE) program. As an NMPT T32 trainee, Kiara had the opportunity to share her work on "The Role of Hedgehog Signaling After Neuromuscular Damage" with the NMPT and BREATHE community through a 3-minute datablitz, followed by a poster session. We are...