Our perspective in Nature Reviews Bioengineering with this all-star team led by Jacqueline Linnes & Willits Lab (she/her) is out! #BMEUNITE Springer Nature Check it out (& RT + share!) to learn how your dept and others can contribute to diversifying our fields: rdcu.be/dH8lt

We Penn Orthopaedics are excited to announce an open faculty position in the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory for an Assistant Professor in the tenure track!

Please share broadly!

If you are or know someone interested, do reach out to me or Co-Chair Xiaowei Sherry Liu.

Apply here! apply.interfolio.com/146051

Congrats all on an exciting study! Link to paper: tinyurl.com/meyeretal2024

today at 3 pm CST- promises to be an exciting seminar on the role of nociceptors in tooth damage- how will this be applicable to joints, one wonders? Zoom in add find out Kelsey Collins Joshua Emrick

Thank you Dana Orange for an insightful presentation today on 'Synovial fibroblast gene expression is associated with sensory nerve growth and pain in rheumatoid arthritis' published in Science Translational Medicine

Link to paper: tinyurl.com/Baietal2024
Rachel Miller AM Malfait C-COMP

We are excited to announce we have published a manuscript in Diabetes entitled 'Excess Intramyocellular Lipid Does Not Affect Muscle Fiber Biophysical Properties in Mice or People with Metabolically Abnormal Obesity.' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38701374/

Reminder- Journal Club Monday morning 10 am CST Dana Orange Kelsey Collins Rachel Miller

Dr. Coleen Sabatini, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, awarded prestigious Humanitarian Award by POSNA! Her global dedication to musculoskeletal care for underserved children earns her this esteemed recognition! #POSNA #HumanitarianAward tiny.ucsf.edu/cs24

Our first cell paper, a spatially resolved multiomics atlas for human bone marrow, was published yesterday in Cell. twtr.to/cJ099. An incredible and exciting journey in the past 4 years with Kai Tan Lab Shovik Bandyopadhyay Michael Duffy Kyung Ahn to work on it. Thank you!

Dean Perlmutter, MD, Washington U. Med & Jeffrey H. Miner have been elected to AAAS one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.

The AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world.

Learn more> l8r.it/WY7i

The first pre-print from our lab is now available online! bit.ly/3JWKqkZ
We investigated the DNA methylome of developing articular cartilage through 7-21pcw and co-localised OA GWAS signals with mQTLs, revealing developmental disease mechanisms 🧵1/

Congrats Meyer Muscle Lab, Karen Chen and co-authors! Fun to collaborate on this with you Farshid Guilak The Guilak Lab WashU MRC WU Physical Therapy Diabetes, a research journal of the ADA 🧪

Join us for the upcoming C-COMP seminar ‘Intradental mechano-nociceptors serve as sentinels for tooth damage' by Dr. Joshua Emrick Joshua Emrick May 13th at 3 pm CST- hybrid! Inquire to receive a link. It will be very cool!

We are delighted to share our manuscript on our UCSF PROPEL program! We have accomplished so much over the last few years, and are evermore excited for new innovations and expansions of this model for equitable access to post-baccalaureate research! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

At ISMRM, UCSF Center for Intelligent Imaging & UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery researchers will be presenting a digital poster during the MSK in Motion I: Imaging of Muscle & Tendon Session. Make sure to check it out! #ISMRM 24 #ISMRM

Join us for journal club, May 13th 10amCST. Dr. Orange will discuss 'Synovial fibroblast gene expression is associated with sensory nerve growth and pain in rheumatoid arthritis' recently published in STM Dana Orange Rachel Miller Kelsey Collins -contact us for link.

The Early-stage Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis (EsSKOA) Initiative @oarsinewsis seeking datasets for analyses

Let us know if you have a dataset with >100 adults with knee symptoms & data on identified candidate items

redcap.utoronto.ca/surveys/?s=HCK…

Such a fun evening and so grateful to Riccardo Gottardi for bringing everyone together. Highlights included a hands-on demo of a delicious carbonara protocol. Appreciate you all for taking the time to hang out & looking forward to hosting one in SF 🥂

Hot off the press!

Association of Gender Role Expectations of Pain and Measures of Pain Sensitization in People with Knee Osteoarthritis…. in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals

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Sex related variability in #osteoarthritis is often a consideration in clinical research which isn’t the case for preclinical #research . I hope this trend will change so that #sex is considered in determining mechanisms and potential drug targets authors.elsevier.com/a/1izn%7E3npMr…