Cat Mak

Don’t miss the 2026 ISHR NAS Meeting! 📍 Minneapolis, MN 📅 May 31–June 3, 2026 Join leaders in cardiovascular research for an outstanding program spanning basic, translational, and clinical science🫀 Register now to save your spot! ishrnorthamerican.org/meetings/

@PilarAlcaidePhD Wow!! Incredible 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

July 2025: 🇪🇸Nationals: injury, surgery, Miami move and lots of PT. May 2026: FL State Champion. #resiliance and #hardwork always pay off. #proud of my son. Next step, 🇺🇲Nationals

The proteome is much bigger than we thought! Really cool new Nature paper from the TransCODE Consortium (not my work, just an excited reader!) on microproteins, peptideins, and the expanding proteome 🤩 Exciting time for the field! nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

@psatolab @uabbme @UABEngineering @UABCardiology A very well-deserved honor!

Expressing my gratitude to all @uabbme students for electing me the best speaker of the semester (SP2026). Thank you! What a pleasant surprise. Wishing everyone a safe Summer break. @UABEngineering @UABCardiology

@SnappyDFM @YasuhideKuwa @AKZJohansen Good luck with your next adventure! You will be missed 🥲

Going away lab party triplets 🎉 Posting this for my last week of postdoc training. So thankful to do my postdoc with these two amazing scientists @YasuhideKuwa @AKZJohansen Nothing has been easy, but I’ve still loved it all! & a pic from my fav part-ISHR Japan😀 #molkentinlab

@LabWaggoner @CincyResearch Thank you, Steve! What an honor to share the stage with you 👏🏻

Delighted for my friend @CatMak23 bring recognized for her exceptional Mentoring Achievement by @CincyResearch ! Her trainees are absolutely killing it and inspiring my lab to think about microproteins in our own work

Join us in Minneapolis for the 2026 ISHR North American Section Meeting! 📍 Minneapolis, MN 📅 May 31–June 3, 2026 Promoting the next generation of basic and translational scientists. Reserve your spot today! #ISHRNAS2026 ishrnorthamerican.org/meetings/

🚨 The January issue of JMCC is live! ⭐ Featured study: "The lncRNA Snhg15 protects the heart after myocardial infarction". ⬇️Snhg15 is a hallmark of ischemic & dilated HF, while AAV-Snhg15 limits cardiomyocyte death & improves function after MI 🧬 🫀💪🏼 jmcc-online.com/article/S0022-…

@CardioMetaboSci @DrHelenECollin1 @TheIUPS @UofLEnvirome @UofLMedicine @mbhouk @bettycoffman @APSPhysiology @StevenPJones @UofLEVPRI @BCVSearlyCareer @ECI_ISHR Congratulations @DrHelenECollin1 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congratulations to Dr. Helen E. Collins (@DrHelenECollin1) on receiving the 2025 @TheIUPS International Early-Stage Faculty Prize for her contributions to Physiology. Read more about the award at iups.org/academy/awards

@AmirZMunir @CardioOncology @Transactivator @saptarsi_haldar @baik_alan @Jeffolgin @UCSFCardiology Huge congrats @AmirZMunir 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It takes a village to raise a physician-scientist, and I am particularly grateful for the support and mentorship I've received along the way. @CardioOncology @Transactivator @saptarsi_haldar @baik_alan @CatMak23 @Jeffolgin @UCSFCardiology

Our story on CXCR6+ T-cells in ICI myocarditis is now out in @CircAHA! bit.ly/4qb7hNv @CardioOncology @UCSFCardiology

🚨It’s not too late to register for tomorrow’s ISHR MCI Webinar! Please join us Wednesday, January 7th at 11am Eastern to hear about the exciting research of Dr. Edward Thorp and Dr. Rajan Jain🫀🧬#CardioTwitter #ISHR Register here: tinyurl.com/MCIJan26

@FranAlvarado01 @American_Heart Congratulations!! 👏🏼

Happy to share our new publication in @American_Heart journal Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, where show that loss-of-function mutations in RyR2 can lead to distinct arrhythmia phenotypes that elude a single clinical definition. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Congrats to #MakLab grad student Dr. Omar Brito-Estrada on earning his PhD and walking at the @UCincyMedicine winter grad ceremony🎓👏🏼 It has been an absolute privilege to mentor you🤩 Wishing you continued success as you begin your postdoc in the @McKinseyLab in Colorado🫀🧬

@S_HamiltonLab @dhtomar @CircRes Congratulations to you and your team!

Excited to share our new work is out in @CircRes ! We show, for the first time, that intermembrane space (IMS) calcium in the mitochondria of cardiac myocytes does not just follow cytosolic calcium! We demonstrate that calcium in the IMS is significant; RyR2 hyperactivity drives mitochondrial structural/ functional damage in a cardiac disease model through changes in calcium in this space. Very grateful to all my co-authors (most twitterless!) for their huge efforts on this; @DATerentyev @jinxi_wang22 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Proud of my team who represented our lab at the Ohio Physiological Society meeting this weekend at @UCincyMedicine 🫀🔬🧬 @Taylor_coughlin gave a great lightning talk on her microprotein project⚡️& @joseph_verry won a poster award for his work on phospholamban cardiomyopathy👏🏼🎉

The Energy Resistance Principle (ERP) is probably the most important paper and theory we've published. authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVK5WXUlaY… The ERP bridges physics and biology, providing a first-principles understanding of the central force behind health and disease dynamics. Delightful to write this with lovely biophysicist @msahsorin. We are grateful for the dozens of colleagues, friends, and lab members who have contributed to sharpening the ideas, concepts, and definitions in the ERP. The ERP is a quantitative framework that can be used to understand some profound things that we know matter for our health: ☯︎ Why is exercise good for us? ☯︎ How does ketosis work as a treatment for mental illness? ☯︎ Why do we age well or not so well? ☯︎ Where does fatigue and the need to sleep come from? ☯︎ Why is the brain warmer than other tissues? ☯︎ How can we measure energy resistance (éR)? ERP's key idea is that we live in a narrow zone of energy resistance (éR). For energy to transform into metabolites, cells, organs, and thoughts, it needs to run through éR. Too little resistance, you would burst into flames. Too much resistance, your energy cannot flow easily, you feel tired, become inflamed, age faster, and get sick more easily. When éR is too high, we die. A new era of science is upon us. We have new theories, and are developing new tools and technologies to monitor energetic states, not just their molecular and physical expressions. This opens new avenues to develop the first field of science devoted to understanding health, and what sustains it: the healing process. It's time for Healing Science. We'd love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and questions. Please join us for a X space discussion on Oct 21. Details to follow.

@JGarbincius @TheElrodLab @Cell_Metabolism Congrats @JGarbincius! 👏🏻

New Spotlight with @TheElrodLab out now in @Cell_Metabolism, discussing current models and unanswered questions about TMEM65's function in mitochondrial calcium exchange! #mitochondria #calcium Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lurq5WXUlaY…

@dhtomar @wakeforestmed Congratulations!!

Honored to receive NIGMS R35 MIRA grant for our work on calcium sensing and mitochondria. Huge thanks to our collaborators, mentors, and dedicated trainees; this wouldn’t be possible without you! Looking forward to the next five years of exploration! #mitochondria @wakeforestmed

Epic weekend in Dallas celebrating Eric Olson's birthday ➕ 40 years of groundbreaking science at Myo Life 70/40 🥳🎉 An inspiring symposium with 60+ talks from former trainees, capped off with an unforgettable performance by his band🎸🎵 @Transactivator 💃🏼🕺🏼What a legacy 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

🚨The @ECI_ISHR committee is hosting a Winter Webinar Symposia for pre- & post-doc trainees on Dec 4, 2025: 📢 Selected abstracts will be chosen for oral presentations 🏆 Presenters will be eligible for Travel Awards to the 2026 ISHR-NAS Conference Please see details below👇🏼