Excited to have my first in person poster presentation at such a exciting conference.

Check out our latest work using selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) to alleviate muscle pain. Collaborated with Aliasger Salem lab to produce microparticle formulation that produces analgesia in two administrations. Kathleen Sluka Pain Interest Group biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ashley Plumb presenting her amazing work showing mechanisms of protective role of testosterone in CNS. UI Neuro Students Pain Interest Group UIowaNeuroPharm UIowa PTRS Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Happy to present my work on testosterone’s protection against activity-induced muscle pain in the descending pain pathway at #IASP2022 🧪 🧬 🥼 Must have been asked a pretty tough question right before this photo. 🫣

Look what I got in the mail today. My painting on the cover of pain-#muscle fibers… also inside Joseph Lesnak PT, PhD paper on resistance training in an animal model of pain - analgesia produced by #testosterone Pain Interest Group UIowa PTRS UIowaNeuroPharm Iowa Neuroscience Institute

Our new manuscript led by Joseph Lesnak PT, PhD now online after acceptance just last week. Team effort with Ashley Plumb Kazuhiro Hayashi, Adam Janowski IIHG_Bioinformatics - sex differences in muscle pain revealed with RNAseq. UIowa PTRS UIowaNeuroPharm Pain Interest Group sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New manuscript from our amazing team looking at rigor in pain research trends over the last 10 years, led by Ashley Plumb with Joseph Lesnak PT, PhD Giovanni Berardi Adam Janowski Kazuhiro Hayashi Angela Smith, Carol Vance, and DPT students. Pain Interest Group UIowa PTRS journals.lww.com/pain/Abstract/…

Ashley Plumb showing cool data on testosterone effects in muscle pain - in CNS Iowa Neuroscience Institute Pain Interest Group UIowa PTRS UI Neuro Students

Recently published work by our team led by Kazuhiro Hayashi exploring sex differences in immune muscle pain mechanisms. P2X7/NLRP3/Caspase-1 pathway contributed to development of male but not female muscle pain Ashley Plumb Kathleen Sluka Pain Interest Group UIowa PTRS journals.lww.com/pain/Fulltext/…

On May 22nd, we will be holding our first research retreat for the Pain Research Program. Register, submit a poster, and bring your colleagues. All are welcome. Come meet Dr. Jerry Gebhart, legendary leader in pain and founder of our group. medicine.uiowa.edu/pain/news-even…

Congratulations to Ashley Plumb who successfully defended her thesis today. @Ksluka0101 Iowa Neuroscience Institute UIowa PTRS UI Graduate College UIowa Research University of Iowa

We read a bunch of papers so you don’t have to! Interested in how microbiome manipulations affect pain in naïve and injured rodents? Check out our lab’s very FIRST REVIEW published in PAIN Journal. 🦠💩🐁💊 journals.lww.com/pain/abstract/…

Now in #PAIN: “Microbiome contributions to pain: a review of the preclinical literature” by Kate Sadler et al. bit.ly/3Cl3edw

Great work by Ashley Plumb

The US govt is treating sex differences research as a DEI issue. It’s not! It is vital to health of all. bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Women are disproportionately affected by chronic pain. Kathleen Sluka A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures Ashley Plumb & Giovanni Berardi describe sex-specific mechanisms in the transition to chronic pain that may inform individualized approaches to pain management in both sexes. jci.org/articles/view/…

Very excited to share our new review on sex differences in the transition to chronic pain, and the cover image is my painting entitled PAIN. Co authors: Angela Smith Ashley Plumb Giovanni Berardi A2CPS - Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures #ChronicPain