We have known now for a long time that intramuscular fat (IMAT), adipose tissue that infiltrates and replaces our muscle tissue with age...

Wow, time flies...another year is almost done! To celebrate the end of the year and start the holiday season, the Makki and Kopinke labs...

Wonderful news! I got promoted to Associate Prof with tenure! I am thrilled to share this honor with my colleagues & friends, Drs. Nikhil...

Hot off the press! Our newest manuscript assessed and compared intramuscular fat formation, fibrosis, & muscle regeneration in females...

We started an exciting new collaboration with Dr. Terence Ryan, exploring the impact of fatty fibrosis in chronic limb-threatening...

We welcomed 4 new people to the lab in the last couple of months. Sushant is a new postdoc from India, Xinyue a new grad student in the...

Wow, 2023 is almost over, and what a year it has been! Lots of changes to the lab (my 1st student graduating and new people starting...

Wohoo!!! Ale's paper finally got published in Nature Communications. Here, we define the Dhh as the key Hedgehog ligand that balances the...

Wow..May was a busy month. Kiara graduated from UF, and Jay and Ale successfully defended their PhD theses. Time to take the lab out for...

Ale, my first grad student, successfully defended her PhD Thesis!!! Laughter, tears, a great presentation and, most importantly,...

Fantastic poster presentations by Kiara, Rhea, Jillian & Sherry at the College of Medicine Celebration of Research day. As all 4 are...

A funded postdoctoral fellow position is available in our lab. We study how intercellular communication is required to build, maintain...

We are thrilled to announce that our R01 titled "Ciliary Hedgehog signaling during adult tissue repair and disease" got funded by NIAMS....

Thanks to the hard work by Connor and Lylybell, we put together a great resource on how to visualize, measure, and quantify intramuscular...

To celebrate 2021, we decided to challenge the Bird lab to an Axe throwing contest. While, fortunately, no fingers were lost,...

Ale participated in the famous Nikon Small World Competition, and her image was selected as an "Image of Distinction"! It is titled:...

Thanks to Ari and Martin for a fantastic collaboration. Also thanks to the anonymous reviewers, whose comments greatly improved the...

It was fun to attend the Annual Neuromuscular Plasticity Symposium. Great talks and excellent science! Deservingly, Ale won a nice prize...

We established a fantastic collaboration with Ariel Waisman @ Fleni in Argentina earlier this year. With Ari's help, we developed a new,...

I am really proud of my team for how they approached and overcame all the challenges of last year. As a symbol of unity, the lab decided...