Author: Jianhua Zhang

Postdoc research day presentations, Josh and Margaret won presentation first and second places! Congratulations!

Dr. Joshua Kramer presented at Southeastern Neurodegeneration Conference (SENDCon) in Atlanta on October 12. Won 1st Place in the 4th session oral presentation competition during Postdoctoral Research Day on November 11, 2023.

Dr. Margaret Bell presented her research entitled, “Defining the association between mitochondrial bioenergetics and O-GlcNAc in Alzheimer’s disease brains,” at the annual UAB Postdoc Day, where she won second place.

Two new publications! Congratulations to all who has done fantastique work!

Ouyang X, Wani WY, Benavides GA, Redmann MJ, Vo H, van Groen T, Darley-Usmar V, Zhang J (2023) Cathepsin D overexpression in the nervous system rescues lethality and Aβ42 accumulation of cathepsin D systemic knockout in vivo.  APSB 13(10): 4172–4184.PMCID: PMC10547960 (IF16)

Kane M, Benavides GA, Osuma E, Johnson M, Collins HE, He Y, Westbrook D, Litovsky SH, Mitra K, Chatham JC, Darley-Usmar V, Young ME, Zhang J (2023) The interplay between sex, time of day, fasting status, and their impact on cardiac mitochondrial structure, function and dynamics.  Scientific Reports 13, 21638 Published: 07 December 2023 PMCID: PMC10703790

2022 New people

Margaret Bell, PhD (postdoc since 4/2022).  She was a UAB graduate student working on muscle mitochondrial function with expertise in mouse models and human sample bioinformatics.  Currently she is supported by T32 training grant and is working on diabetes and protein O-GlcNAcylation in cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. 
Josh Kramer (postdoc from 8/2022) has obtained his PhD in Biology of Aging on inflammatory damage response in the retina in USC.  He will be studying the effect of O-GlcNAcylation on microglia function in the context of Alzheimer’s disease.
Eric R, (undergraduate researcher since 10/2022). Eric is majoring in Biomedical Sciences while also working in the lab 15 hours a week. He is interested in learning about mitochondria, the brain and Alzheimer’s disease.

Shrijith Balasundararajan (undergraduate researcher since 11/2022). I am majoring in Neuroscience and am part of the honors program. I am interested in working and learning about Alzheimer’s as well as Parkinson’s.