{"id":31221,"date":"2025-03-29T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/?p=31221"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:49:43","slug":"ike-emerson-earned-his-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/ike-emerson-earned-his-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Emerson earned his PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18630\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"James (Ike) Emerson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-600x899.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson-560x839.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2021\/07\/James-Ike-Emerson.jpeg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Ike Emerson, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dr. Ike Emerson successfully defended his thesis, titled &#8220;Post-transcriptional mechanisms regulate cardiac sex differences,&#8221; on March 28, 2025, under the direction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/directory\/frank-conlon\/\">Dr. Frank Conlon<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ike Emerson earned his undergraduate degree from NC State University with a double major in Biochemistry and Human Biology. Prior to Graduate school, Ike worked in the labs of Dr. Susan Smith and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/marsicolunginstitute\/directory\/brian-button-phd\/\">Dr. Brian Button<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In 2020, Ike joined the BBSP program and subsequently joined Dr. Frank Conlon&#8217;s lab. In his graduate work, he sought to better understand biological sex differences in the heart and how these differences lead to sex differences in cardiac disease prevalence. Specifically, Ike identified a microRNA (miR-871) that regulates sex differences in cardiac repolarization through modulation of Sarcalumenin (SRL) protein levels. Ike also characterized the role of Alpha-1-beta glycoprotein (A1BG) in the heart and showed that A1BG loss leads to dilated cardiomyopathy in female mice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29930 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2024\/10\/3winners-at-3MTfinals-10-2024UNC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"3 winners at 3MT finals in 2024 holding awards\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2024\/10\/3winners-at-3MTfinals-10-2024UNC-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2024\/10\/3winners-at-3MTfinals-10-2024UNC-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During his time at UNC, Ike was involved in the UNC RNA Discovery Center and Women&#8217;s Health multidisciplinary consortium. Ike was the first recipient of the Marzluff graduate fellowship given by the RNA Discovery Center. He competed in the 2024 UNC three-minute thesis competition, where he won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/ike-emerson-wins-the-peoples-choice-award-at-the-unc-3mt-finals\/\">the people&#8217;s choice award<\/a>. His work, entitled &#8221; X-chromosome-linked miRNA regulate cardiac sex differences,&#8221; was featured on the Discover CirRes podcast, February 20th edition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31257 size-thumbnail alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2025\/03\/Image-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Ike Emerson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2025\/03\/Image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2025\/03\/Image-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2025\/03\/Image-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2025\/03\/Image-400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ike is a Tar heel born and bred. He\u00a0has enjoyed attending nearly every home basketball and football game during his time at UNC, including watching\u00a0UNC beat Duke in the final four. In the future, Ike will complete his postdoctoral work at Duke University to complete the research triangle and continue studying cardiac disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ike Emerson successfully defended his thesis, titled &#8220;Post-transcriptional mechanisms regulate cardiac sex differences,&#8221; on March 28, 2025, under the direction of Dr. Frank Conlon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41619,"featured_media":18630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-31221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news_students","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ike Emerson earned his PhD! 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