Congratulations to the Lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D., Bioinformatician and Principal Investigator, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science/NASA Ames Research Center; Visiting Researcher, Broad Institute; President, COVID-9 International Research Team, for the receipt of space biology research grant, entitled “Spaceflight and Regolith Induced … Read more

  Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Nathaniel J. Moorman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, for publishing article, titled “Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts”, in the journal Science Translational Medicine. This was an epic effort, but Drs. Schisler … Read more

Congratulations to Selin Altinok, a graduate student, whose main focus is spinocerebellar ataxia, Alzheimer’s research, and more specifically, stress granules, currently in Dr. Schisler’s Lab, for successfully defending Ph.D. thesis. Selin passed her Ph.D. Defense, based on her groundbreaking research, accomplished in the Schisler Lab, that sheds light on the root causes of clinical features … Read more

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for presenting and moderating at the 2023 NCI SeroNet Investigators Meeting. Dr. Schisler did a great job presenting and moderating on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) campus, featuring his work with SAS Software, Matthew Wolfgang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Faculty Director, … Read more

Congratulations to Rebekah Sanchez-Hodge, Lab Manager/Research Associate in the Schisler Lab, for recently receiving a UNC SOM staff professional development grant for Spring 2023. This pilot program grant provides funds to support the professional development of SOM staff members. Becky will also attend the Laboratory Animal Management Association’s (LAMA) 39th Annual Meeting in Clearwater, Florida.

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Matthew Wolfgang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, for being selected as finalists for the 2022 Creativity Hub Award. Their research creativity hub, CTSB-RID (Center for Therapeutic Systems Biology of Respiratory Infections Diseases), seeking a better understanding of the … Read more

Congratulations to Mariah Stewart, a pharmacology graduate student in Dr. Schisler’s Lab, for recently receiving Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. Her fellowship provides stipend support to study how post-translational modifications of chaperones and co-chaperones dictate protein-protein interactions and heat tolerance in response to thermal stress.

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for publishing papers, titled “Comprehensive Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Mitochondrial Stress as a Central Biological Hub for Spaceflight Impact” and “Circulating miRNA Spaceflight Signature Reveals Targets for Countermeasure Development” in the journals Cell and Cell Reports, as co-author. Dr. Schisler’s papers are both featured on … Read more

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Cell Biology & Physiology, Richard Cheney, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology & Physiology, Frank Conlon, Ph.D., Professor, Biology and Genetics, James Faber, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology & Physiology & Karen L. Mohlke, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Associate Chair For … Read more

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with the lab of David Alan Kass, M.D., Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine (JHU), for publishing paper, titled “CHIP phosphorylation by protein kinase G enhances protein quality control and attenuates cardiac ischemic injury”, in Nature Communications. This … Read more