New paper in
@ScienceMagazine
. Muscle fiber repair in response to non-regenerative injury is satellite cell-independent and involves myonuclear relocation. A cool study that builds on a growing body of literature.
#myotwitter
A real tour de force on muscle hypertrophy! A big author line of heavy hitters. Well-done! Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions
@DrMikeRoberts
@kaesser
and many more!
#myotwitter
Satellite cells can fuse without first dividing during adult muscle fiber hypertrophy 🤯 Amazing work from
@UKYCMB
@AhmedIsmaeelPhD
feat.
@Thomas_Rando
“Division-Independent Differentiation of Muscle Stem Cells During a Growth Stimulus”
#myotwitter
This is an amazing graphical abstract. I love making graphical abstracts and this is the level I’m striving for in 2024. Props to
@OdedRechavi
and team. Happy New Year!
I’m looking for a post-doc! In addition to working on a fun
@NIHAging
project, you get to live in one of the best outdoor recreation places in America, collaborate with great folks including
@UACachexia
and
@AIMRC_UofA
, and join a growing team.
#myotwitter
Lifelong resistance training for the win! “The impact of life-long strength versus endurance training on muscle fiber morphology and phenotype composition in older men”
#myotwitter
@japplphysiol
Muscle memory: myonuclear accretion, maintenance, morphology, and miRNA levels with training and detraining in adult mice Some fun new work from
@UKYCMB
providing different explanations on cellular “muscle memory”.
#myotwitter
Always pumped to get some muscle on the cover! Thanks
@APSPublications
@APS_Function
and congrats to first author Yuan Wen MD/PhD on his first cover (Dr. Wen brought you MyoVision as well...he’s incredible).
#myotwitter
It’s published at last! A massive cell atlas of muscle regeneration and a super awesome resource for the muscle field. Kudos to
@bdcosgrove
and his team
#myotwitter
Day 31: Honored and excited to join
@UofA_ESRC
@uacoehp
@uarkansas
and learn new things, start new collaborations, and work with eager students. Here’s a picture of
@UACachexia
Dr. Nic Greene and I unloading some of the samples I brought along. Fun times ahead!
#myotwitter
New in
@JPhysiol
“Cross Talk proposal: Myonuclei are lost with ageing and atrophy” (Kirby/ Dupont-Versteegden) vs “Cross Talk opposing view: Myonuclei do not undergo apoptosis during skeletal muscle atrophy” (Schwartz/Gundersen) with rebuttals!
#myotwitter
A single cell atlas of adaptation to physical activity in young and aged mice by the great Dr. Tom Rando and coworkers (includes muscle). This will be a useful resource
#myotwitter
Back at it again with w/
@FerdinandvW
@IVechetti
“Multi-transcriptome analysis following an acute skeletal muscle growth stimulus yields tools for discerning global and MYC regulatory networks” with open webtools for checking your favorite genes
#myotwitter
New
@UKYCMB
! “Skeletal muscle properties show collagen organization and immune cell content are associated with resistance exercise response heterogeneity in older persons” Incl. scRNA-seq with exercise in a human
@japplphysiol
@APSPublications
#myotwitter
One for the road to wrap up 2023! Happy to share the stage with Prof. Peterson of
@UKYCMB
who has made big contributions to this area. “A muscle exercise research revolution powered by -omics at single cell and nucleus resolution”
@BMCBiology
#myotwitter
“Myonuclear permanence in skeletal muscle memory: a systematic review and meta-analysis of human and animal studies” A complement to the recent Cross Talk in
@JPhysiol
#myotwitter
Great trip to London with
@CWSundberg
for the
@JPhysiol
editorial board meeting. We of course found a place that had the good stuff for the right price too. Today was a good day.
Cool images
#myotwitter
! “Intravital microscopy of satellite cell dynamics and their interaction with myeloid cells during skeletal muscle regeneration”
@ScienceAdvances
“Current limitations and future opportunities of tracer studies of muscle ageing”. An important read for muscle researchers studying aging and protein turnover! Lots of food for thought and things to consider.
@JPhysiol
#myotwitter
It’s my last month as a post-doc in
@UKYCMB
To honor the people and projects from the last 6 y, over the next month I will post a paper we published together and tag the folks involved. Here’s my first pub from the lab circa 2016
@chrisfryphd
#myotwitter
From
@AhmedIsmaeelPhD
@NickTThomas
Coordinated Regulation of Myonuclear DNA Methylation, mRNA, And miRNA Levels Associates with The Metabolic Response to Rapid Synergist Ablation-Induced Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy in Female Mice
#myotwitter
@APS_Function
Such a treat to read this. “Muscle is a stage, and cells and factors are merely players” from
@Wi_Roman
and Dr. Munoz-Canoves in
@TrendsCellBio
. Thanks for the sneak peek William! Great work.
#myotwitter
Do your mice even lift? A new review from
@UKYCMB
published in
@APSPublications
@japplphysiol
where we summarize all the very recent advances in ways to “resistance train” your mice. Hopefully will be a good resource for the
#myotwitter
community!
Day 11: A book chapter on muscle mass regulation with Dr. John McCarthy. John gave me opportunity after opportunity to be successful. I am indebted to him. A great mentor.
@jjmcca2_john
#myotwitter
@UKYCMB
Our paper in
@AJPCellPhys
was published in its final form. Love the new look of the articles! Grateful that the summary figure was published in color, which I thought was scientifically justified. Thx to
@UKYCMB
@Ferdinandv
, Drs. Wen and Dungan
#myotwitter
Day 30: The minds behind the muscle! I was so fortunate to work with great mentors and colleagues
@UKYCMB
over the last 6 years (L to R): Drs. Charlotte Peterson, Chris Fry, John McCarthy, Esther Dupont-Versteegden, and Kate Kosmac.
#myotwitter
On to the next adventure✌️
Hey
#myotwitter
join me in welcoming
@corydungan
. We were postdocs together
@UKYCMB
for 5 years and he now has his own lab
@Baylor
. I wouldn’t be where I am without him. He’s studying senescence in muscle among many many other things!
New stuff from
@UKYCMB
DNA damage more associated with obesity than aging in human skeletal muscle. Huge effort from my friend and colleague Dr. Cory Dungan!
Day 10: Hot off the press today! 🎉 Another brilliant piece from Dr. Yuan Wen,
@DavisEnglund
@UKYCMB
Myonuclear transcriptional dynamics in response to exercise following satellite cell depletion
#myotwitter
I love being an Editorial Board Fellow as much as I love publishing in
@JPhysiol
!! This has been a great experience for me and encourage anyone who is interested to apply. Great people, great society, and great science. You can’t lose!
#myotwitter
Are you an
#ECR
wanting editorial experience with a prestigious journal? Apply for
@JPhysiol
's Editorial Board Fellowship, where you'll gain valuable insight under the guidance of a Senior Editor.
🚨 Deadline: 14 Feb
🔗 Apply:
A really overdue paper in
@JPhysiol
from the Segal lab feat. Cornelison lab on how the vasculature remodels during severe muscle injury. Fundamental stuff here. Very cool. Great images too
#myotwitter
Strength training is more effective than aerobic exercise for improving glycaemic control and body composition in people with normal-weight type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial
We are hiring! “…especially interested in candidates with a research focus in metabolism (e.g. cell, tissue, or whole body metabolism). This includes, but is not limited to, research in obesity, diabetes, aging, cachexia, or any other conditions and interventions…”
#myotwitter
Looking for a lab technician/ manager in the Molecular Muscle Mass Regulation Laboratory here at U of Arkansas. Here’s the link to the
@APSPhysiology
job board where you can apply. DM me with questions! Please spread it around!
#myotwitter
New stuff from &
@UKYCMB
@DavisEnglund
Satellite cell depletion disrupts transcriptional coordination and muscle adaptation to exercise, published in
@APSPublications
@APS_Function
Single Myonuclear RNA-seq for the win! Way to go Dr. E
New work on myotube exosomes from my guys
@shredbehead
and
@IVechetti
in his new lab! Skeletal Muscle Cell Growth Alters the Lipid Composition of Extracellular Vesicles
#myotwitter
Yet another way that EVs mediate their effects on recipient cells?
When in Kentucky, you go to the distilleries. Never gets old. The best smell in the whole wide world is inside these buildings. 10/10 recommend
@WoodfordReserve
After a very long and challenging year, it's great to end 2023 on a high note with our latest publication in Molecular Metabolism on fiber type-specific mitochondrial respiration led by the awesome
@SebastianEdman
My tweet about the recent paper on myofiber repair independent of satellite cells was my most popular to date. If you’re interested, we discuss some intricacies of myofiber repair without SCs during “physiological damage” in our recent review:
#myotwitter
Join us for UCEM's March 2023 DLS for a talk on "Exploring MYC in Muscle" by
@KevinMurachPhD
, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science,
@UArkansas
.
Registration is required:
Glad to be appointed to the editorial board of
@BMCBiology
. Open access, flexible format submission, portable review (i.e. can transfer reviews from non-BMC journals!), scoop protection, and IF=7.4. Send your great muscle papers my way
#myotwitter
✌️