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🫀🧫 🔬@FloridaState Assistant Professor studying heart muscle #mechanobiology #proteomics | @nih_nhlbi K99/R00 awardee | 🇨🇷👨‍🔬🇺🇸 | #puravida (own views) linktr.ee/solislab

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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very thankful for being awarded the Young investigator Award (YICA) finalist from the International Society for Heart Research North American Section Meeting. Thank you Kika Sucharov and the meeting organizers Timothy O'Connell, Julia Liu, PhD, and Jop van Berlo for putting this meeting together.
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We had an incredible experience at the first #Myofilament Meeting organized at University of Arizona. Rhiannon presented a poster on #ACTN2 mutations associated with #HCM. Kudos to the organizers fo this outstanding meeting. See you in 2028. 🏜️
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🚨New publication from our lab. Enter LIME: your laboratory inventory manager that can scan QR codes/barcodes and update your inventory spreadsheet. 🍋‍🟩LIME is freely available on GitHub: github.com/chsolis/lime... 👉Check out the paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #LabManagement #NewPI #Startup
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Laboratory Inventory Management Engine (LIME): A free tool for managing laboratory inventories via barcode scanning and automatic cloud-based spreadsheet integration
Efficient inventory management remains a persistent challenge in research settings, where productivity and budget control are tightly linked to accurate tracking of consumables, reagents, and equipmen...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We are so happy that our own Dr. Helene Tigro was awarded the 2026 Undergraduate Research Mentor Award during the 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The Exhaustive Chase: Investigation of Striated Muscle Regulation in Health and Disease" brought so many outstanding muscle research scientists to Florida State University to celebrate the outstanding research career of Dr. Chase! www.biophysics.org/upcoming-net...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Here is our latest paper led by Dr. Helene Tigro. Here, we show that phosphorylated α‑actinin‑2 is more susceptible to spend time in a state that is more compatible with F-actin binding. Big thanks to Dr. Matthew Childers and Mike Regnier for their support! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Beyond excited to serve as elected co-chair for the 2028 Motility & Cytoskeleton Symposium at the 72nd @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social Meeting in San Diego. And we now have a brand-new Muscle Biology subgroup chaired by Dr. Samantha Harris and Dr. Hamilton! www.biophysics.org/subgroups/mo...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Very thankful with this invitation to present our work Wichita State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for the Chemistry Colloquium. Outstanding cadre of investigators, trainees, and great NMR and mass spec facilities! #Myofilament #Mechanobiology #Biophysics #Mechanotransduction
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is how we celebrated National Wear Red Day @americanheart.bsky.social #GoRed #HeartDiseaseAwareness
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our paper was selected for the cover of the next issue ACS Omega! Access paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🫀Happy to announce the publication of this work in ACS Omega. Access article here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MolecularDynamics #AlphaFold #GreenTea #DiastolicHeartDisease #Diastole #Biophysics @pubs.acs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Instead of turkey, our protein purification team worked hard to get some heart proteins baked! 🫀🧫 Happy Thanksgiving from the Solis Lab! 🦃 #Biophysics #MyoTwitter
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Super productive time at the @americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We presented one of our recent projects on mechanisms of troponin desensitization #cardiovasculardisease #AHA25 #HCM #HeartFailure #Cardiomyopathies
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We had my postdoc advisor Dr. Brenda Russell as a guest speaker for our multi-PI lab meeting!
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Late Nobel Prize physicist Paul Dirac must be rolling in his grave ⚛️🎃 #HappyHalloween #Physics
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Our undergraduate student, Dev, was selected to present at the 2025 President’s Showcase of Research Excellence. This is on top of being awarded the 2025 IDEA grant that helped Dev develop his research project this last summer. Congrats, Dev, well deserved!
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I had the great joy of visiting @illinoisstateu.bsky.social to present some of our research progress as part of the School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series. A big tank you to the department for the kind invitation. Also, Normal, Il is an incredibly charming town! #Mechanobiology #Biophysics
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thrilled to share that our abstract has been accepted at the 2025 @americanheart.bsky.social Scientific Sessions Meeting in New Orleans! We hope to see you there on Sunday🫀🔬 #AHA25 #AmericanHeartAssociation #Cardiomyopathies #HeartDisease
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Carlos Henrique Pereira @carlos-henrique-p.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my newest paper in JMCC, which investigates the mechanism of ulcerative colitis induced ventricular arrhythmias 🧪 www.jmcc-online.com/article/S002...
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Colitis induced ventricular alternans increases the risk for ventricular arrhythmia
Inflammatory bowel disease was linked to an increased risk for conduction defects and ventricular arrhythmia. It coincides with dysregulation of gut microbiota, increased inflammation, and deregulatio...
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Mordecai-Mark Mac Low @astrocurator.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
6 Peking University (PKU), China 7 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 8 Nanjing University (NJU), China 9 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 10 Tsinghua University, China (5/5) On this measure, Chinese institutions have gone from one to seven of the top 10.
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Mordecai-Mark Mac Low @astrocurator.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The journal @nature.com compiles a list of leading research institutions ranked by counts of "high-quality research outputs." (www.nature.com/nature-index...) Surely not definitive, but the change over the six years from 2018 to 2024 is astonishing. (1/5)
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
There was an active shooter on campus. This is disturbing to experience in person. #FSU #Tallahassee #FloridaState
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
There was an active shooting on campus. We’re still under shelter in place. #FSU #FloridaState #Tallahassee
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JAMA @jama.com · 16/04/2025
"Maintaining our current level of progress in biomedical research requires continued additional investment simply to keep pace." This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) over time. ja.ma/3RQPP11 #MedSky
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NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003
This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🫀⚡We are pleased to share our first review from the lab published in @apsphysiology.bsky.social! Here we dive deep into how mechanical forces transduce into biochemical signals that coordinate cardiac cell growth and heart adaptation. Access manuscript here ➔ journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Such a pleasure to have Hanan from @ionoptix.bsky.social to come to FSU to help us setup this Ca2+ and contrqctility system to assess #cardiomyocyte function 🔬🧫🫀
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s always such a pleasure to see @crand22.bsky.social from @aurorascientific.bsky.social this time at the Skeletal Muscle Biology Meeting at University of Florida! #Myotwitter #MyoBlue #Myology #Myofilament #Sarcomere
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
She left Canada because, I believe, women were not allow to pursue research careers. She went to Berlin, then U of Chicago, then U of Pittsburgh where she spent the bulk of her career. She was even (eventually) promoted to full professor.
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We had a great time at the UF Myology Meeting. We took this meeting by storm with 2 posters presented by Dr. Tigro and 1 poster by Rhiannon! 😎💪 #GoNoles #MyoTwitter #MyoBlue #Myofilament #Sarcomere
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It appears that the overarching UM grant for the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Awards was terminated. It is no longer in NIH Reporter. Here is the abstract. Too much focus on health equity, health disparities, and underserved populations... Another obscenity...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So it begins. We are at the Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology meeting in Gainesville FL. Opening by UF Myology Institute director Lee Sweeney #MyoTwitter #MyoBlue
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...
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The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
Continued investment in the NIH is essential to fighting current and emerging health threats and to ensuring the U.S. remains a global leader in medical innovation.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
IMSD and MARC still closed and archived, AFAICT
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When the crew is learning to use the new microscope with live cell and structured illumination capabilities 🔬🧫. #FluoresenceFriday
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Per a source with knowledge, external access to NIH's Enterprise Directory, which includes names and work contact info for NIH staff and contractors, may be shut off by tomorrow night. It is working as of now. ned.nih.gov/search/
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NIH is the best investment there is. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 12/03/2025
Mentions of research on Bluesky cross 30,000 items for the first time. March 11th (yesterday): 31,444 posts citing research. All Time High #AcademicSky #HigherEd #IDSky #Altmetrics
Graph of Bluesky data over time, with March 11th 2025 as highest attention day seen yet
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Ken Campbell @cardiaccampbell.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Excited to see this editorial "What frozen human hearts can tell us about treating heart failure" that highlights research done with samples from the Gill Cardiovascular Biorepository at the University of Kentucky journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Dear America, please be mindful that China may fill whatever health and biotechnological gap the US leaves behind. #NIH www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We were invited to write an editorial focus on a recent work by Choi et al who looked into the cardiac mechanics of frozen heart tissues with history of heart failure and the therapeutic testing of #Danicamtiv and #OmecamtivMecarbil. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I feel so fulfilled for having served as part of the @us-hupo.org Early Career Researcher Committee for the last two years. At #USHUPO2025, we had the opportunity to invite a group of brilliant high school students to show them what proteomics is about #TeamMassSpec
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Solis Lab @ FSU @chrissolis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I had the great pleasure of presenting our latest research at the Biophysical Society meeting in Los Angeles, CA! The Solís Lab is dedicated to uncovering the root causes of heart disease. If you believe in our mission, please consider donating to our lab: give.fsu.edu/Donate/Wizar.... #HCM #DCM
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US HUPO @us-hupo.org · 26/02/2025
Thank you for joining us at US HUPO 2025 in Philadelphia! We will see you in St. Louis for US HUPO 2026! #Proteomics #USHUPO2025 #USHUPOConference 🧪
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WESA @wesa.fm · 21/02/2025
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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