Rasmussen Lab
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Blake B. Rasmussen, PhD. Lab focused on aging, skeletal muscle and metabolism. School of Medicine, Dept of Cellular & Integrative Physiology, UT San Antonio.
Joined November 2023
We welcome Dr. Jared Rutter to San Antonio as our Center for Molecular Metabolism Seminar Speaker this week! @RutterLab
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Yi Zhu, PhD, has received a $150,000 @UTSystem Rising STARs Award to advance aging research & collaborative innovation. The award supports acquisition of behavioral testing and tracking to rigorously assess cognition in aging & Alzheimer’s disease models: https://t.co/7EJvhVGQdf
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💪💪SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🏋️♂️🏋️♂️ @TheRasmussenLab from @UTSA is speaking at #IBEC2026!! You already know its going to be a highlight of the conference! #mitochondriaemoji
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Research Article by SP Kilroe et al. (@TheRasmussenLab @uthealthsa @utmbhealth) Integrated #muscle #proteinsynthesis during #disuse and #rehabilitation in late-midlife adults https://t.co/pEj6sysVoX
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👏 UT Health San Antonio’s Claude D. #PepperCenter has secured a $6.5M #NIH grant to advance #agingresearch. The funding adds a new Molecular Phenotyping Core + expands efforts to help older adults maintain independence, especially in South Texas. 🧬⏳ 👉 https://t.co/jKBqLhRZXU
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While people are living longer than ever, many are also living with chronic health problems that impact their quality of life. In September, the San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Indepen...
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The inaugural cohort of the NIH-funded UT-MSTAR Research Program has completed its training in aging research @UTHealthBarshop. 18 first-year students from 4 Texas medical schools conducted mentored projects, clinical shadowing, and final presentations: https://t.co/c1hYQ81kf7
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📢 Join us Sept 10 for the Barshop Institute Fall Seminar Series! 🧬 Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD (OHSU) presents: “Whac-a-mole or Occam’s Razor – Understanding muscle loss in cancer cachexia” 🕓 4–5pm CT | In person & Zoom 👉 https://t.co/omoW5yiF1E
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Sean Kilroe, a productive postdoctoral fellow in the lab, is the first author on a new paper from the lab where we used deuterated water to assess protein synthesis during a week of disuse and exercise rehabilitation. https://t.co/U4iUSVd9GC
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the sex-specific differences in how late-midlife adults respond to short-term disuse and rehabilitation. Sixteen late-midlife adults, who were free of...
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We are excited to announce that Dr. JP Palavicini has joined the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology as an Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Long School of Medicine at UT San Antonio. His area of research is aging and neurodegeneration. https://t.co/POXkguzWPb
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Happy to share a new paper led by Pauline Brochet and in collaboration with some of our MoTrPAC colleagues. Endurance Training Enhances Sex-Specific Cardioprotective Metabolism | Circulation Research
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Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kureel, a talented postdoctoral fellow in the lab, has put together a comprehensive review of a hot topic in aging - ferroptosis. https://t.co/f44GhcLFJQ
https://t.co/ivw29SPX14
@skkureel113 @UTHealthBarshop
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A new paper from the lab. Zach Von Ruff, a recently graduated PhD student, reports on the gene expression time course in muscle during disuse and exercise rehabilitation. https://t.co/vuZUobKnki
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Disuse drives rapid muscle atrophy and metabolic dysfunction. This study aimed to characterize phenotypic and transcriptomic skeletal muscle changes in middle-aged individuals during disuse and...
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We are excited to announce that Dr. Yi Zhu has joined the Department of Cellular & Integrative Physiology as an Associate Professor at the UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine and Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies. https://t.co/ObpIyQTkLf
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We welcome Dr. Cholsoon Jang from UC Irvine to San Antonio for the Molecular Metabolism Seminar Series.
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I am happy to announce that Anya Kalenta successfully defended her dissertation today. It was a pleasure working with her over the last 4 years. Congratulations Dr. Kalenta!!
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📢 Register now for the 2025 Masoro-Barshop Conference on Aging! 📅 Oct 9–12 | 📍 Mayan Dude Ranch, Bandera, TX Theme: "Dietary Approaches to Geroscience Intervention" 🔗 Details & registration: https://t.co/CIK2slZCX6
#Geroscience #AgingResearch #BarshopConference
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We welcome Dr. Jim Carson, the new Director of the Texas A&M Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine & Human Performance, to San Antonio for our Molecular Metabolism Seminar Series.
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Research Article by H Kalenta et al. (@TheRasmussenLab @uthealthsa @utmbhealth) Constitutively active #mTORC1 signaling modifies the #skeletalmuscle #metabolome and #lipidome response to #exercise
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We’re proud to be a Semifinalist team of #XPRIZEHealthspan, a 7-year, $101 million global competition that aims to revolutionize the way we approach human aging. We look forward to this next chapter of the competition as we continue to develop our therapeutic.@XPRIZE
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