Tendon Trouble Without tendons, your muscles couldn’t move your body. When you injure a tendon, it can affect your everyday activities. Scientists are looking for ways to repair these notoriously difficult injuries.

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We have an open postdoc position in our lab using #NAMs!
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on an NIH-funded R01 project investigating tendon cell-ECM interactions using advanced microphysiological and engineered approaches (including non-animal models).
Apply here! michmed.org/5GV5x

We are hiring a Research Laboratory Specialist for our collaborative team!
Join us at Michigan Medicine:
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One week from today: LeeAnn Flowers is defending her PhD dissertation on March 11 at 9AM!! 💪
Her thoughtful way of approaching science and her high quality work has changed the course of our lab, and opened new doors for our research program.

DM for a link to the zoom !

We had three talks and three posters including late breaking talk by Nicole, Stephs first podium at ORS, and Allies poster in the Undergraduate session! + @sssteltz.bsky.social competed in the Tendon Section 3min thesis!
Our chair, Dr. Caird, also received the Womens Leadership Forum Award!!

What a great #ors2025 in phoenix!!

Attending the #ORS2025 kickoff? Come visit me and Amy to chat about the Foot & Ankle Community Network. In true Lenz lab style, we'll have stickers!

@orssociety.bsky.social

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AMPK signaling is dysregulated in human tendinopathy and loss of AMPKα1 leads to cell, matrix and mechanical dysfunction in mouse Achilles tendon Tendinopathy is a tendon disorder that is caused by the failure to self-repair and has many pathological characteristics such as disorganized ECM and decreased cell viability. We have identified a pos...

We are thrilled to share our newest preprint led by grad student, LeeAnn Flowers, on tendinopathy and AMPK signaling!

This was a major part of her dissertation work, and we are so proud!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Overexpression of enhanced yellow fluorescent protein fused with Channelrhodopsin‐2 causes contractile dysfunction in skeletal muscle Optogenetic tools like Channelrhodpsin-2 (ChR2) are useful for inducing skeletal muscle contraction using blue light. However, the prevalence of fluorescent proteins like EYFP may cause functional is...

I am thrilled to share our recent publication, led by recent PhD graduate Dr. Syeda Lamia + collab with @brianglancylab.bsky.social, on how overexpression of EYFP using optogenetic mouse strains leads to skeletal muscle contractile dysfunction. 🧵
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Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

Research funded by NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023 [a total of $92.9 billion]

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Killian and Abraham Labs Welcome to the Killian and Abraham Laboratories! The Killian and Abraham Labs are a research group focused on connective tissue development and disease in the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories in the ...

We're a research group, led by @megankillian.bsky.social and Adam Abraham, at the University of Michigan Medical School focused on tendon health and development.
We can also be found at killian.lab.medicine.umich.edu