Here is our latest paper led by Dr. Helene Tigro. Here, we show that phosphorylated α‑actinin‑2 is more susceptible to spend time in a state that is more compatible with F-actin binding. Big thanks to Dr. Matthew Childers and Mike Regnier for their support! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond excited to serve as elected co-chair for the 2028 Motility & Cytoskeleton Symposium at the 72nd @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Meeting in San Diego. And we now have a brand-new Muscle Biology subgroup chaired by Dr. Samantha Harris and Dr. Hamilton! www.biophysics.org/subgroups/mo...

Very thankful with this invitation to present our work Wichita State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for the Chemistry Colloquium. Outstanding cadre of investigators, trainees, and great NMR and mass spec facilities! #Myofilament #Mechanobiology #Biophysics #Mechanotransduction

This is how we celebrated National Wear Red Day @americanheart.bsky.social #GoRed #HeartDiseaseAwareness

Our paper was selected for the cover of the next issue ACS Omega! Access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

🫀Happy to announce the publication of this work in ACS Omega. Access article here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MolecularDynamics #AlphaFold #GreenTea #DiastolicHeartDisease #Diastole #Biophysics @pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

Instead of turkey, our protein purification team worked hard to get some heart proteins baked! 🫀🧫 Happy Thanksgiving from the Solis Lab! 🦃 #Biophysics #MyoTwitter

Super productive time at the @americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We presented one of our recent projects on mechanisms of troponin desensitization #cardiovasculardisease #AHA25 #HCM #HeartFailure #Cardiomyopathies

We had my postdoc advisor Dr. Brenda Russell as a guest speaker for our multi-PI lab meeting!

Late Nobel Prize physicist Paul Dirac must be rolling in his grave ⚛️🎃 #HappyHalloween #Physics

Our undergraduate student, Dev, was selected to present at the 2025 President’s Showcase of Research Excellence. This is on top of being awarded the 2025 IDEA grant that helped Dev develop his research project this last summer. Congrats, Dev, well deserved!

I had the great joy of visiting @illinoisstateu.bsky.social to present some of our research progress as part of the School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. A big tank you to the department for the kind invitation. Also, Normal, Il is an incredibly charming town! #Mechanobiology #Biophysics

Thrilled to share that our abstract has been accepted at the 2025 @americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We hope to see you there on Sunday🫀🔬 #AHA25 #AmericanHeartAssociation #Cardiomyopathies #HeartDisease

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my newest paper in JMCC, which investigates the mechanism of ulcerative colitis induced ventricular arrhythmias 🧪 www.jmcc-online.com/article/S002...

6 Peking University (PKU), China 7 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 8 Nanjing University (NJU), China 9 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 10 Tsinghua University, China (5/5) On this measure, Chinese institutions have gone from one to seven of the top 10.

The journal @nature.com compiles a list of leading research institutions ranked by counts of "high-quality research outputs." (www.nature.com/nature-index...) Surely not definitive, but the change over the six years from 2018 to 2024 is astonishing. (1/5)

There was an active shooter on campus. This is disturbing to experience in person. #FSU #Tallahassee #FloridaState

There was an active shooting on campus. We’re still under shelter in place. #FSU #FloridaState #Tallahassee

"Maintaining our current level of progress in biomedical research requires continued additional investment simply to keep pace." This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) over time. https://ja.ma/3RQPP11 #MedSky

🫀⚡We are pleased to share our first review from the lab published in @apsphysiology.bsky.social! Here we dive deep into how mechanical forces transduce into biochemical signals that coordinate cardiac cell growth and heart adaptation. Access manuscript here ➔ journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Such a pleasure to have Hanan from @ionoptix.bsky.social to come to FSU to help us setup this Ca2+ and contrqctility system to assess #cardiomyocyte function 🔬🧫🫀

It’s always such a pleasure to see @crand22.bsky.social from @aurorascientific.bsky.social this time at the Skeletal Muscle Biology Meeting at University of Florida! #Myotwitter #MyoBlue #Myology #Myofilament #Sarcomere

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

She left Canada because, I believe, women were not allow to pursue research careers. She went to Berlin, then U of Chicago, then U of Pittsburgh where she spent the bulk of her career. She was even (eventually) promoted to full professor.

We had a great time at the UF Myology Meeting. We took this meeting by storm with 2 posters presented by Dr. Tigro and 1 poster by Rhiannon! 😎💪 #GoNoles #MyoTwitter #MyoBlue #Myofilament #Sarcomere

It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter. Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations... Another obscenity...

MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.

So it begins. We are at the Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology meeting in Gainesville FL. Opening by UF Myology Institute director Lee Sweeney #MyoTwitter #MyoBlue

THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...

IMSD and MARC still closed and archived, AFAICT

When the crew is learning to use the new microscope with live cell and structured illumination capabilities 🔬🧫. #FluoresenceFriday

Per a source with knowledge, external access to NIH's Enterprise Directory, which includes names and work contact info for NIH staff and contractors, may be shut off by tomorrow night. It is working as of now. ned.nih.gov/search/

NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

Mentions of research on Bluesky cross 30,000 items for the first time. March 11th (yesterday): 31,444 posts citing research. All Time High #AcademicSky #HigherEd #IDSky #Altmetrics

Excited to see this editorial "What frozen human hearts can tell us about treating heart failure" that highlights research done with samples from the Gill Cardiovascular Biorepository at the University of Kentucky journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Dear America, please be mindful that China may fill whatever health and biotechnological gap the US leaves behind. #NIH www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We were invited to write an editorial focus on a recent work by Choi et al who looked into the cardiac mechanics of frozen heart tissues with history of heart failure and the therapeutic testing of #Danicamtiv and #OmecamtivMecarbil. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

I feel so fulfilled for having served as part of the @us-hupo.org Early Career Researcher Committee for the last two years. At #USHUPO2025, we had the opportunity to invite a group of brilliant high school students to show them what proteomics is about #TeamMassSpec

I had the great pleasure of presenting our latest research at the Biophysical Society meeting in Los Angeles, CA! The Solís Lab is dedicated to uncovering the root causes of heart disease. If you believe in our mission, please consider donating to our lab: give.fsu.edu/Donate/Wizar.... #HCM #DCM

Thank you for joining us at US HUPO 2025 in Philadelphia! We will see you in St. Louis for US HUPO 2026! #Proteomics #USHUPO2025 #USHUPOConference 🧪

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Our call for papers has been extended until July 1st. We look forward to receiving your manuscript. #myoblue journals.physiology.org/jappl/contex...

Wouldn't also affect companies who hold contracts with universities such as @springer1842.bsky.social, @natureportfolio.nature.com, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @thermofishersci.bsky.social, @amazonwebservices.bsky.social, @microsoft.com, @biorender.bsky.social? Institutions will have to trim costs

Today is #NationalWearRedDay! ❤️ We are wearing red to raise awareness for #HeartHealth! 🫀 #GoRed for Women 💃 #CardiovascularResearch

Hello world! Here is my first post. I'm so happy to be part of this community and I hope I can learn from everyone's exciting research. In the coming days I will be giving little bits on what we do in our lab so stay tuned! 🫀