The Voss lab is always working on new projects. Check out the posts below so see what we’ve been up to. You’ll also find some commentary on recent publications.
Katie Trittschuh is a Master’s student in the laboratory measuring neuromuscular transmission in Huntington’s disease skeletal muscle. You may be saying, “cool, I’ve always wanted to do that, but how is that related to birds of prey?” In her free time, Katie volunteers at the Glen Helen Raptor Center in Yellow Springs, OH, a local ecological center that serves to house and rehabilitates injured predator birds. While in rehabilitation at…
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Congratulations to Keisha Barnes for receiving a summer fellowship for the Applying Scientific Knowledge (ASK) program in the Voss lab here at Wright State. Keisha is a sophomore who joined the lab at the beginning of Spring 2022 as a participant in the ASK program. The ASK program is an experiential learning program that gives undergraduate students the opportunity to get involved in research by working with a faculty mentor…
Read moreWe recently coauthored a paper that was published in eLife with collaborators Mark Rich of Wright State University and Roger Bannister of the University of Maryland. The paper investigates the relationships between resting membrane potential and action potential waveform on excitation-contraction coupling and action potential propagation. We show that the width of an action potential affects excitation-contraction coupling and myoplasmic Ca2+, whereas the action potential peak has a greater influence…
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Check out our recent publication with the laboratory of Dr. Robert J. Talmadge in Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports. The article is a follow up to our 2017 paper in the Journal of Neuroscience and examines the expression of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits in skeletal muscle from the transgenic R6/2 model of Huntington’s disease. We previously showed that neuromuscular junctions in R6/2 muscle are reduced in size. In the recent…
Read moreWe had a great time this past weekend at the annual Ohio Physiological Society meeting in Cleveland. Thanks to all of the faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics for hosting the meeting and putting on such a great conference. Steve Burke, a research associate in the lab, presented data he has been gathering over the past couple of years. The project…
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We are happy to announce that the official website for The Voss Lab at Wright State University is live. Click the link to check out our site for an overview of the lab, the research we do, and our current lab personnel. Take a look at our News page for updates on what we are currently working on as well as some commentary on recent publications.
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