Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, researcher in the Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory (SMPRL), led by Sarah Greising, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology, attended and presented research at the Experimental Biology meeting, held in Philadelphia PA, April 2-5.

Dr. Raymond-Pope presented a poster, entitled “The Whole-Body and Muscle Specific Metabolic Costs of Repair Following Volumetric Muscle Loss Injury: The Role of Limited Physical Activity and Adjunctive Oxidative Modulation.” This work evaluated the impact of a regenerative pharmaceutical treatment for traumatic injury, focusing on the effects for fuel utilization at the whole-body and muscle fiber specific level. The study is co-authored by SMPRL lab member, Alec Basten, and colleagues at the University of Georgia, Jennifer McFaline-Figueroa and Jarrod Call, PhD. 

Dr. Greising also attended the meeting and co-authored two additional posters with Dr. Call and his team: “Assessing High- and Low-intensity Physical Rehabilitation Approaches to Address Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction Following Volumetric Muscle Loss”, lead by graduate student Albino Schifino, and “Exploring the Combined Effect of High-Fat High-Sugar Diets and Volumetric Muscle Injury on Skeletal Muscle Metabolic and Contractile Function in Mice”, lead by graduate student Jun-Won Heo.