Davis Englund, PhD

Great to have my friend and colleague @FerdinandvW visit the Englund Lab this week! Fantastic @UABExerciseMed seminar on exercise adaptation in children with cerebral palsy – more exciting work ahead! @ThalackerMercer @UABHeersink

@AhmedIsmaeelPhD @UKYCMB Congrats Ahmed - well deserved!

Happy to share that I have officially received NIH support through an NIA K22 Career Transition Award! I am very grateful to all my mentors and collaborators (esp John & Char @UKYCMB). Also, special thanks, huge shoutout to PO & NIA staff for their hard work, guidance, & support.

@AhmedIsmaeelPhD @AU_APPdept @UABHeersink @UKYCMB thanks Ahmed - the pleasure is all mine!

Really outstanding talk for our @AU_APPdept biomedical seminar series by @DavisEnglund coming to us from down the road at @UABHeersink!! A pleasure having Davis visit us for the day and share the exciting work from his lab. @UKYCMB family! #myotwitter

Join us on March 3, 2026 at the UAB Alumni House for The UAB Aging Research Symposium! For more information, visit: go.uab.edu/agingresearchs… See you there!

@Matt_Muscle_Guy Congrats Matt!

Some good news to report. We received the notice of award for our R03 grant late yesterday. The grant is focused on proteomic biomarkers for the ultra-rare XMEA muscle disease. Excited to get started!

Whole-body p21 transgenic🐭 #SkeletalMuscle atrophy fibrosis ⏬Treadmill Grip strength SkM transcriptomic #Senescence #SASP ⏬OXPHOS ⏫myonuclei & interstitial cell #DNADamage p21 overexpression does Not increase p16 in SkM @NKLeBRASSEUR @MolMetab 2023 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@KevinMurachPhD @PJKoopmans Congrats!

“Displaced myonuclei are attributable to both resident myonuclear migration and stem cell fusion during mechanical loading in adult skeletal muscle” by postdoc Nate Serrano and doc student @PJKoopmans #myotwitter link.springer.com/article/10.118…

@Matt_Muscle_Guy @KevinMurachPhD Looking forward to reading this one!

Nice work and congrats @KevinMurachPhD & 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. tinyurl.com/3vhxwku4

@Matt_Muscle_Guy Congrats!

I wanted to highlight our lab's recent #CommsBiology manuscript: Conditional Dmd ablation in muscle and brain causes profound effects on muscle function and neurobehavior. Credit to Muthukumar Karuppasamy & all collaborators, and team. Link: tinyurl.com/2f4s2ar7

Thank you for the nice summary and continued support!

Thanks, Matt! Already looking forward to next year.

It’s just about that time for the Tornado Alley Muscle Meeting! @AJPCellPhys @uacoehp @AIMRC_UofA @UArkResearch

Looking forward to attending the upcoming Tornado Alley Muscle Meeting this week hosted by @KevinMurachPhD @DavisEnglund #ZachHettinger, and #BenjaminMiller. Hopefully no actual tornados 😄

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 #myotwitter

@FerdinandvW @UABExerciseMed @ThalackerMercer @UABHeersink @PapanikolaouPhD Indeed!

@DavisEnglund @UABExerciseMed @ThalackerMercer @UABHeersink @PapanikolaouPhD Thank you @DavisEnglund for having me over! You have great folks in your lab, great discussions going. More to come!

Great to have my friend and colleague @FerdinandvW visit the Englund Lab this week! Fantastic @UABExerciseMed seminar on exercise adaptation in children with cerebral palsy – more exciting work ahead! @ThalackerMercer @UABHeersink

@AhmedIsmaeelPhD @FerdinandvW @PapanikolaouPhD You are welcome anytime!

@DavisEnglund @FerdinandvW @PapanikolaouPhD Thanks for letting me crash the party too :P Great seeing y'all and great meeting Kostas!

@CWSundberg @UWMadison Congrats man!

Very excited to share that the Integrative Muscle Physiology & Energetics (IMPE) lab is moving to the University of Wisconsin (@UWMadison)! My lab team thinks we should change to the WIMPE lab, studying #aging #muscle at #Wisconsin. What do you think? #myotwitter

Review by CL Sexton and S Meza-Perez et al. (@DavisEnglund @uabmedicine ) The role of #adiposetissue in critical illness-induced #skeletalmusclewasting—new considerations for treatment approaches 🩻💪 ow.ly/2jnY50WzBrm

@snoke_phd @theNCI Congrats!

Overjoyed to share that my K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award is funded by @theNCI ! THANK YOU to the mentors who have nurtured my scientific and professional development and helped me find my identity as an academic scientist. Now, the fun begins- time to do some research😊

@Matt_Muscle_Guy Awesome - congrats Matt!

Some good news amidst the chaos, my lab officially received our notice of award for a #DoD CDMRP DMD grant focused on evaluating new therapies that impact DMD neurological symptoms. Excited to work on this project with Karen Gamble’s lab in UAB Psychiatry.