July 2009

Jia Zhong passed her Ph.D. defense. Another Dr. from Yu Lab. She is going to University of Pennsylvania to continue a post-doc research. Congratulations, Jia!

June 2009

Yong Chen succeed in the application for the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations, Yong!

May 2009

Wen Li published his manuscript “Ex vivo diffusion tensor MRI reflects microscopic structural remodeling associated with aging and disease progression in normal and cardiomyopathic Syrian hamsters. ” in NMB in Biomedicine (.pdf).

May 2009

Aleefia Somji (REU fellow) joined us as summer student and Bharath Atthe (graduate student) now starts his new adventure in mysterious MRI field at Yu Lab. Welcome, Aleefia and Bharath!

April 2009

Yu lab was featured in this year’s “The Value of Research” published by Case Western Reserve University.

April 2009

A total of 5 abstracts were presented at the annual ISMRM conference in Honolulu by Jia Zhong, Wei Li , and Wen Li . All of them received student stipend award.

Wei gave a talk on ' A 13 C isotopomer model for accurate NMR quantification of substrate selection and anaplerosis'.

Wen gave a talk on ' in vivo evaluation of calcium influx in alpha-dystrobrevin knock-out mouse by Manganese-Enhanced MRI'.

April 2009

A total of 3 abstracts were presented at the annual Experimental Biology meeting in New Orleans by Fang Bian, Ming Lu and Wei Li . All of them received travel stipend award.

Fang Bian presented poster titled 'Increased Glucose Transport Prevents the Development of Contractile Dysfunctions in Diabetic Hearts'.

Ming Lu presented poster titled 'Determination of Malate-Aspartate Shuttle Activity in Intact Hearts Using 13C NMR Spectroscopy and Modeling'

Wei Li presented poster titled 'A 13 C isotopomer model for NMR and GC-MS analysis'.

March 2009

Jia Zhong 's manuscript titled as “Transmural myocardial strain in mouse: Quantification of high-resolution MR tagging using harmonic phase (HARP) analysis” (.pdf) is now Epublished in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine on March 24th.