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Kevin Murach

@kevinmurachphd.bsky.social
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Studying muscle in the Ozark mountains - M3R Lab. Bourbon aficionado. Amateur watch builder. Average exerciser. My wife says I’m a “six wing five”. musclemasslab.uark.edu

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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Carried by Dr. @RonaldGJones3, “the gigaMYC paper” as the trainees call it: “Transient MYC Mimicking the Exercise Response Orchestrates Multifaceted Skeletal Muscle Adaptations”. A huge collab that started many many years ago. Too many to thank! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Transient MYC Mimicking the Exercise Response Orchestrates Multifaceted Skeletal Muscle Adaptations
Despite decades of study, MYC's physiological role in adult tissues remains obscured by the models used to investigate it. Most work relies almost exclusively on chronic or constitutive MYC induction ...
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Oscar Horwath, PhD @oscarhorwath.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our latest on ribosomes during muscle regeneration @ferdinandvw.bsky.social @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
So proud of the first PhD student from the lab Dr. Ron Jones. Don’t know what we will do without him around. He’s off to bigger and better things though. Also, note the rainbow (over the blue dinosaur) in the background. Poetic. #myoblue
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“The Age-Dependent Resident Myonuclear Multi-Omic Response to an Acute Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophic Stimulus in Mice” advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Age‐Dependent Resident Myonuclear Multi‐Omic Response to an Acute Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophic Stimulus in Mice
Resident myonuclei are the molecular “control centers” for large multinuclear muscle fibers. It is presumed that, with aging, these control centers become compromised and contribute to delayed or blu...
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Professor Adam P. Sharples @profadamsharples.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Nice feature in @theatlantic.com by @bonnietsui.bsky.social Our lab’s latest study reveals that skeletal muscle doesn’t just remember growth- it also remembers inactivity. Repeated disuse leaves a molecular imprint that shapes future responses. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’
Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.
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Abigail Mackey @abigailmackey1.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
💪🧠Thrilled to be awarded this grant to study how exercise supports the motoneurone-muscle interaction during ageing - with awesome collaborators @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social and Kristine Freude @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social 🙏@lundbeckfonden.bsky.social lundbeckfonden.com/en/exercise-...
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Exercise to maintain and repair the ageing motoneurone-muscle axis
Has received a Professorship grant of DKK 20,000,000 from the Lundbeck Foundation.
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Matthew Alexander, PhD @mattmuscleguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Nice work and congrats @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social & colleagues for their new #SkeletalMuscle paper: Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle. #Myoblue tinyurl.com/3vhxwku4
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Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle - Skeletal Muscle
Non-peripheral (displaced) myonuclei are characteristic of skeletal muscle pathology and severe injury but also appear after exercise and with aging. Displaced myonuclei are typically attributed to th...
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Upcoming Postdoc Position! With Chris Nelson’s lab at U of A, we are looking for a fully supported 2-year postdoc to work on muscle gene editing and detection of gene doping in vivo. If interested, email myself and Chris: kmurach@uark.edu and nelsonc@uark.edu #myoblue
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Professor Adam P. Sharples @profadamsharples.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First post on Blue Sky New pre-print! Does muscle remember disuse muscle wasting? Our new study shows skeletal muscle retains a molecular memory of disuse! Young muscle shows transcriptional resilience to repeated atrophy. Aged muscle shows exaggerated susceptibility. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A heavy lift from a literal strongman, PhD candidate PJ Koopmans “The Age-Dependent Resident Myonuclear Multi-Omic Response to a Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophic Stimulus” 💪🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Some interesting data from postdoc Nate Serrano: “Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle
Non-peripheral myonuclei are characteristic of skeletal muscle pathology and severe injury but also appear after exercise and with aging. Displaced myonuclei are typically attributed to the activity o...
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PNAS Nexus @pnasnexus.org · 02/10/2025
Issue 9 (2025) of PNAS Nexus is now available! Discover how satellite cells orchestrate immune-fibrogenic circuits in aging muscle, machine learning for long-term scratching in mice, and more. Read here: ow.ly/bLeP50X5JVE
PNAS Nexus – Issue 9 (2025) is now available. PNASnexus.org
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Regenerate to “Rejuvenate”: Insights From Adult Resident Stem Cells of Aged Flatworms and Mice. A fun collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Regenerate to “Rejuvenate”: Insights From Adult Resident Stem Cells of Aged Flatworms and Mice
Resident stem cells from aged planaria and murine skeletal muscle possess some inherent abilities to mitigate signs of aging after tissue regeneration.
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Final version in @pnasnexus.org “Satellite cells choreograph an immune cell-fibrogenic cell circuit during mechanical loading in geriatric skeletal muscle” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Satellite cells choreograph an immune cell-fibrogenic cell circuit during mechanical loading in geriatric skeletal muscle
Abstract. Muscle stem cells, or satellite cells (SCs), decline in number throughout the lifespan and may become senescent in very old age. Whether and how
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Aneesha Dasgupta @aneedasgupta.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Dasgupta Lab at UNC Charlotte is hiring! This space needs to be filled with laughter, breakthroughs, failures, high fives and everything in between! (Of course equipment!😛) We will be studying cancer-induced muscle wasting! DM or email for more info! @cancercachexia.bsky.social #myoblue
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Prioritizing skeletal muscle health for successful aging “The beneficial effects of exercise on skeletal muscle cannot be overstated, and the impact of healthy skeletal muscle on successful aging should not be underestimated.” www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/prio...
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Prioritizing skeletal muscle health for successful aging
Kevin A. Murach talks us through prioritizing skeletal muscle health for successful aging, beginning with a primer on skeletal muscle aging
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“Muscle memory theory: A critical evaluation” in @JPhysiol led by postdoc Nate Serrano physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Muscle memory theory: A critical evaluation
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Our Special Issue is live in J Physiology! w/ @mvfranchi.bsky.social & Prof. Paul Greenhaff “Cardiac, skeletal muscle and neuromuscular plasticity in disuse and inactivity”. So many great contributions! Add it to your reading list #myotwitter physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697793...
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Special Issue: Cardiac, skeletal muscle and neuromuscular plasticity in disuse and inactivity: The Journal of Physiology: Vol 603, No 13
<em>The Journal of Physiology</em> publishes research in all areas of physiology and pathophysiology that illustrates new physiological principles or mechanisms.
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“Satellite cells choreograph an immune cell-fibrogenic cell circuit during mechanical loading in geriatric skeletal muscle” @myoblue.bsky.social @pnasnexus.org academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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Satellite cells choreograph an immune cell-fibrogenic cell circuit during mechanical loading in geriatric skeletal muscle
Abstract. Muscle stem cells, or satellite cells, decline in number throughout the lifespan and may become senescent in very old age. Whether and how remain
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Making Sense of MYC in Skeletal Muscle: Location, Duration, and Magnitude” journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Making Sense of MYC in Skeletal Muscle: Location, Duration, and Magnitude | American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology | American Physiological Society
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A tour de force! Mouse, worm, and human data all telling the same story. Amazing! “microRNA-1 Regulates Metabolic Flexibility by Programming Adult Skeletal Muscle Pyruvate Metabolism” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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microRNA-1 Regulates Metabolic Flexibility by Programming Adult Skeletal Muscle Pyruvate Metabolism
Metabolic flexibility refers to the ability of a tissue to adjust cellular fuel choice in response to conditional changes in metabolic demand and acti…
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Longhua Guo @longhuaguo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Rejuvenation in planarians. Check out the details in this link: www.nature.com/nataging?gcl... @nataging.nature.com
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Nature Aging
How long will we live? And how much of that time will comprise a healthy life? What is aging, and can we stop or even reverse the aging process? What is the ...
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Abigail Mackey @abigailmackey1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Our latest review is out now in @jphysiol.bsky.social The repair capacity spectrum of human skeletal muscle injury from sports to surgical trauma settings Great team effort 🙌 @grithhojfeldt.bsky.social, Christian Hoegsbjerg, Arvind von Keudell @ismcopenhagen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1113/JP28...
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Dada Pisconti @dadapisconti.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you too are experiencing mental health issues due to the ongoing shitshow, please DM me or Signal me at ziadadina.19, I am trying to build a community to help each other. Y'all, please repost and help me out, this is serious stuff
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Myocellular adaptations to short-term weighted wheel-running exercise are largely conserved during C26-tumour induction in male and female mice #myoblue physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Myocellular adaptations to short‐term weighted wheel‐running exercise are largely conserved during C26‐tumour induction in male and female mice
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Final Version: “A history of omics discoveries reveals the correlates and mechanisms of loading-induced hypertrophy in adult skeletal muscle. 2024 CaMPS young investigator award invited review” #myoblue journals.physiology.org/doi/epdf/10....
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A history of omics discoveries reveals the correlates and mechanisms of loading-induced hypertrophy in adult skeletal muscle. 2024 CaMPS young investigator award invited review
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Chambers et al. “At the Nexus Between Epigenetics and Senescence: The Effects of Senolytic (BI01) Administration on DNA Methylation Clock Age and the Methylome in Aged and Regenerated Skeletal Muscle” #myoblue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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At the Nexus Between Epigenetics and Senescence: The Effects of Senolytic (BI01) Administration on DNA Methylation Clock Age and the Methylome in Aged and Regenerated Skeletal Muscle
Injury then recovery markedly rewires the DNA methylome in aged skeletal muscle.The addition of senolytics during muscle regeneration decelerates DNAmAGE more than regeneration alone as well as targe...
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Cool data here. We have some mouse data (regeneration, not amputation) that supports this! Stay tuned and great stuff @longhuaguo.bsky.social #myoblue @natureaging.bsky.social
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This was a real labor of love: “A History of Omics Discoveries Reveals the Correlates and Mechanisms of Loading-Induced Hypertrophy in Adult Skeletal Muscle” w/Toby Chambers. #myoblue journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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A History of Omics Discoveries Reveals the Correlates and Mechanisms of Loading-Induced Hypertrophy in Adult Skeletal Muscle | American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology | American Physiological S...
Since the early 2000s, omics approaches to study skeletal muscle hypertrophy consequent to loading (e.g. resistance exercise) have expanded dramatically. Beginning with genomics and transcriptomics, t...
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Christoph Handschin @c-handschin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our magnum opus on everything related to #aging is out as a preprint in Physiological Reviews @apspublications.bsky.social @apsphysiology.bsky.social #openaccess. Great collaboration with @regula-furrer.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch. doi.org/10.1152/phys... Some teasers: 🧵 1/9
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Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Many countries face an unprecedented challenge in aging demographics. This has led to an exponential growth in research of aging, which, coupled to a massive financial influx of funding in the private and public sectors, has resulted in seminal insights into the underpinnings of this biological process. However, critical validation in humans have been hampered by the limited translatability of results obtained in model organisms, additionally confined by the need for extremely time-consuming clinical studies in the ostensible absence of robust biomarkers that would allow monitoring in shorter time frames. In the future, molecular parameters might hold great promise in this regard. In contrast, biomarkers centered on function, resilience and frailty are available at the present time, with proven predictive value for morbidity and mortality. In this review, the current knowledge of molecular and physiological aspects of human aging, potential anti-aging strategies, and the basis, evidence, and potential application of physiological biomarkers in human aging are discussed.
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Really nice paper from @abigailmackey1.bsky.social looking at the interaction between myogenic cells and neurons! @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
10 years post-PhD and finally…the promotion and tenure pour. Shout out to all my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, and trainees. Science is a team sport, and my team is all MVPs. #myoblue
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A short story: “A satellite cell-dependent epigenetic fingerprint in skeletal muscle identity genes after lifelong physical activity” @faseborg.bsky.social #myoblue
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A satellite cell‐dependent epigenetic fingerprint in skeletal muscle identity genes after lifelong physical activity
Muscle stem cells (satellite cells) promote adult skeletal muscle adaptation. The presence of satellite cells affects the skeletal muscle methylome response to lifelong wheel running - specifically i...
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@DrJimmyBagley and I wrote this while he was fighting (and beating!) cancer. Grateful for him as my colleague and friend. “A primer on global molecular responses to exercise in skeletal muscle: Omics in focus”. Cutting edge! @JSHS_MedHealth #myoblue www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A primer on global molecular responses to exercise in skeletal muscle: Omics in focus
Advances in skeletal muscle omics has expanded our understanding of exercise-induced adaptations at the molecular level. Over the past 2 decades, tran…
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A really nice special issue in @jphysiol.bsky.social by Dr. Chris Sundberg “Physiology of ageing skeletal muscle and the protective effects of exercise” feat. some work by our lab and many others! Check it out @myoblue.bsky.social physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14697793...
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Special Issue: Physiology of ageing skeletal muscle and the protective effects of exercise: The Journal of Physiology: Vol 603, No 1
<em>The Journal of Physiology</em> publishes research in all areas of physiology and pathophysiology that illustrates new physiological principles or mechanisms.
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Kevin Murach @kevinmurachphd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
First post on Bluesky! Congrats to Aga Borowik and Miller Lab on this thoughtful and thought provoking piece “The expanding roles of myonuclei in adult skeletal muscle health and function” portlandpress.com/biochemsoctr... @myoblue.bsky.social @am-omrf.bsky.social @omrf.bsky.social
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The expanding roles of myonuclei in adult skeletal muscle health and function
Skeletal muscle cells (myofibers) require multiple nuclei to support a cytoplasmic volume that is larger than other mononuclear cell types. It is dogmatic that mammalian resident myonuclei rely on ste...
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