Glembotski Lab News

Awards and Recognitions:

Adrian Arrieta

• Gordon Research Conference: Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Oral Presentation - 2018
• AHA BCVS Oral Presentation top 10% - 2017
• Advancement to Candidacy for the Ph.D. - May, 2017
• Alternative Muscle Club Meeting - San Diego 2016 - Oral Presentation and Young Investigator Award
• Rees-Stealy Fellowship - 2016, 2017, 2018
• NHLBI NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-related Research - 2016-2019
• Doctoral Dissertation Defense July 2020

Cat Aivati

• Advancement to Candidacy for the Ph.D. - May, 2017
• Dissertation Defense for the Ph.D. - July, 2018

Alina Bilal

• AHA Abstract Travel Award - Chicago IL; 2018
• Master's Thesis Defense February 2020

Erik Blackwood

• AHA Predoctoral Fellowship - 2017-2018
• NIH Predoctoral Fellowship - 2018-2021
• ARCS Fellowship - 2017,2018
• Rees-Stealy Fellowship - 2016, 2017,2018
• Inamori Fellowship - 2016
• Advancement to Candidacy for the Ph.D. - March, 2017
• ISHR Best Overall Poster Award - New Orleans, LA; 2017
• Gordon Research Conference Best Trainee Poster Award - New London, NH; 2016, 2018
• UCSD Abstract Travel Award (ISHR) - New Orleans, LA; 2017
• AHA Abstract Travel Award - New Orleans, LA; 2016
• AHA Abstract Travel Award - San Antonio, TX; 2018
• AHA Early Career Mentorship Awardee - 2019
• Sigma Xi Member - 2020
• Doctoral Dissertation Defense and Ph.D. Awarded May 14, 2020

Tak Cheung

• Master's Thesis Defense August 2020

Shirin Doroudgar

• Started her own lab at eh University of Heidelberg- 2015
• Funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Fur Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK) with a highly competitive prestigious grant for €1.5M to start her own independent research group - 2016

Andy Fedoriouk

• Master's Thesis Defense March 2020
• Accepted into the SDSU/UCSD Biology Joint Doctoral Program Fall 2020

Fred Kolkhorst

• Wins University Research Grant to study the effects of exercise on heart failure and cardiac and skeletal muscle structure and function in ATF6 knockout mice - 2016
• Recipient of a transplanted heart to replace his old heart - July 3, 2017
• Happy rebirthday and doing great 1 year after heart transplant - July 3, 2018
• Published Kolkhorst, FW & Buono, MJ, 2018, Exercise Physiology Illustrated: Moving Oxygen from Air to Muscle, Montezuma Publishing.

Kaleigh Marsh

• Master's Thesis Defense August 2020

Ingrid Neisman

• Joins our faculty as the new Director of the SDSU Microscope Facility and Faculty Member of the Glembotski Lab - 2017

Anup V. Sarakki

• Alternative Muscle Club Meeting - San Diego 2017 - Outstanding Poster Award
• Alternative Muscle Club Meeting - San Diego 2018 - Oral Presentation and Young Investigator Award

Winston Stauffer

• Alternative Muscle Club Meeting - San Diego 2017 - Outstanding Poster Award
• ARCS Fellowship - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Rees-Stealy Fellowship - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Advancement to Candidacy for the Ph.D. - February, 2017
• Doctoral Dissertation Defense July 2020