Dr. Jake Sorensen, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Sarah Greising’s laboratory, received an award at the American Physiological Society’s Integrative Physiology of Exercise 2020 conference for his work. The award was one of two sponsored by the Journal of Applied Physiology for oral presentations during the meeting. Jake presented on work provides evidence that volumetric muscle loss injury has a negative impact on the remaining neuromuscular junctions and provides a unique pathology of secondary denervation.
Below are images of neuromuscular junctions (NMJ) that were taken as part of the study provided by Dr. Sorensen.
NMJ looks normal, with presynaptic (red) and postsynaptic (green) structures of the endplate intact. 
The image shows an NMJ that is missing
the presynaptic terminal (red), making it
dysfunctional.
