Jonker Lab News
July 1, 2024 - Jonker Lab accomplishments
July 1, 2024 - Awarded an R01 to study the fetal heart in a model of hypoplastic left heart syndrome!
May 31, 2024 - Published: Fetal cardiac troponin I levels decline towards birth in sheep
May 20, 2024 - Eric presents poster at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting
May 3, 2024 - Published: Sensitivity and activation of endoplasmic reticulum stress response and apoptosis in the perinatal sheep heart
April 7, 2024 - Karthik and Sonnet attend American Physiological Summit to present abstracts
February 13, 2024 - Honoring the career of Dr. Kent Thornburg
February 2, 2024 - Published: Physiological response to fetal intravenous lipid emulsion
2023
November 24, 2023 - Published: Thyroid hormone increases fatty acid use in fetal ovine cardiac myocytes
October 29, 2023 - Published: Chronic in utero mitral inflow obstruction unloads left ventricular volume in a novel late gestation fetal lamb model
October 19, 2023 - Matt attends Vascular Biology to present abstract
August 21, 2023 - Published: Impact of fetal pituitary-testes suppression on brain sexual differentiation and reproductive function in male sheep
July 5, 2023 - Kaliyah accepted into OHSU's Wy'east Pathway
June 19, 2023 - Interns April, Kaliyah and Raiyasha graduate!
May 2, 2023 - Published: Augmenting workload drives T-tubule assembly in developing cardiomyocytes
April 23, 2023 - Kaliyah and April honored for abstracts of distinction at American Physiology Summit!
April 7, 2023 - Eric McClellan joins Jonker Lab
February 28, 2023 - Lab alumna Adri defends doctoral dissertation at Cincinnati Children's
February 17, 2023 - April wins American Physiological Society Award!
February 16, 2023 - Karthik wins Collins Foundation award!
2022
November 7, 2022 - Published: Changes in microvascular perfusion of heart and skeletal muscle in sheep around the time of birth
November 5, 2022 - Published: Coronary conductance in the normal development of sheep during the perinatal period
September 23, 2022 - Raiyasha wins presentation award at PSU's Summer Research Symposium!
August 31, 2022 - Sonnet and Matt attend Aspen Perinatal Biology Symposium
August 12, 2022 - Interns Kaliyah and April present at 2022 Research Internship Symposium
June 03, 2022 - Support the SoM Pledge Drive for NxNE
February 06, 2022 - Welcome April Vasquez!
February 06, 2022 - Welcome Kaliyah Iverson!
February 01, 2022 - Published: The GnRH antagonist degarelix suppresses gonadotropin secretion and pituitary sensitivity in midgestation sheep fetuses
2021
October 1, 2021 - Adri Wilburn wins internship with OHSU's Tech Transfer
September 18, 2021 - Jonker Lab raises over $2000 for Refuge Care Collective
September 11, 2021 - Sonnet elected president of the PRS
September 1, 2021 - Welcome Raiyasha Paris!
July 23, 2021 - Sonnet has been made a Fellow of the APS
July 21, 2021 - Published: Anemic hypoxemia reduces myoblast proliferation and muscle growth in late gestation fetal sheep
June 28, 2021 - Sonnet granted tenure
June 3, 2021 - Published: Addressing structural racism within institutional bodies regulating research
March 25, 2021 - Seeking interns for fall 2021
February 16, 2021 - Sonnet to give Medicine Grand Rounds
February 04, 2021 - Awarded an R21 to study microvascular development!
January 11, 2021 - Published: IGF-1 infusion to fetal sheep increases organ growth but not by stimulating nutrient transfer to the fetus
2020
August 07, 2020 - Farewell Winston Weigand!
July 20, 2020 - Welcome Summer Cox!
July 15, 2020 - In the news about the Covid-19 pandemic: Idle Labs
July 06, 2020 - Welcome Karthik Bose!
June 23, 2020 - Published: Coronary vascular growth matches IGF-1-stimulated cardiac growth in fetal sheep
April 01, 2020 - Published: Role for Kisspeptin and Neurokinin B in Regulation of Luteinizing Hormone and Testosterone Secretion in the Fetal Sheep