🦕🦕 I’m happy this fun little book is finally out exploring how the physiology of the sauropod dino helped contribute to its dominance on earth for so long. However, I think I’ll stick to my day job 😁 🦕🦕

remember this HFpEF summit in March 2025 - what better opportunity to support California? Also I was just told that the cost of the hotel was recently decreased

Come join us!

Finally online today: nature.com/articles/s4146… Thanks to all involved, especially Eyo and the phenomenal undergraduates I've had the privilege to mentor. Also check out two of my other recent publications. 1) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/pmid/… 2) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

CVTG RIP happening this week.

Excited to pre-release the latest from the lab on how arterial myocyte Panx1 controls vascular reactivity in diabetes. Massive effort from the M&M Team in collaboration with 🦕Brant Isakson🦖 and Xiang Lab. UC Davis, UC Davis Pharmacology, UC Davis Health. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Ugggg, I hate having to be back on Twitter, but ah well…..anyway…. 🍩Happy Donut Friday! 🍩 The lab thought I would miss Donut Friday since I was heading out of town but I didn’t forget! Now it’s a type 2 diabetes smorgasbord

Why travel to Denmark to collect samples from a giraffe's heart? 🦕Brant Isakson🦖 lab members Skylar Loeb and Luke Dunaway, PhD, made the trip to learn more about diastolic heart failure. Red more: cvrc.virginia.edu/cvrc-trainees-…

I thought this was 20 years ago…

Happy (late) Donut Friday (from Boulder)!

We are currently hiring for two roles Swapnil Sonkusare UVA CVRC : ***Postdoctoral Fellow*** and ***Research Scientist***. We are looking for highly motivated individuals to explore the role of ion channel networks in vascular health and disease.

Summer lab dinner at Oakhart Social here in C’ville was fantastic! Missing a few more folks for the pic, but celebrating all their amazing accomplishments!

Mark your calendars for the International Gap Junction Conference #IGJC2026 in Padua Italy! It will be July 25-29, 2026. More details to come soon from the European organizing committee

The official release of our manuscript examining arterial myocyte Panx1 role in diabetic vascular dysfunction is out! Massive effort to uncover new mechanisms underlying vascular disease. Power of science! UC Davis, UC Davis Health, UC Davis Pharmacology ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

I’m doom scrolling too much. So anyway…here are the Friday donuts! 🍩

Belle for the win! (I prefer the sourdough donuts!)

Huge thanks to Luke Dunaway, Brooke O’Donnell, (twitterless) Madison Williams, and all the former Isakson Lab post-docs for all that you do and all you have done! Appreesh Appreesh!

Brooke O'Donnell, PhD, works at the molecular level to understand how Pannexin proteins affect blood pressure, blood flow, and blood vessel dilation. Brooke O’Donnell is also a hockey player, reader, and the 🦕Brant Isakson🦖 Lab's resident tea evangelist.

C’ville’s S’bracco’s for the win on Donut Friday! A pro-tip here: let the hot coffee warm/melt the glaze, but flip it to the cool side before you put it down so your random importantish papers on the desk don’t get sticky.

🦕Brant Isakson🦖 Lab postdoc Luke Dunaway, PhD, studies the intersection of iron metabolism and cardiovascular disease in anemia and chronic kidney disease. A hiker and boulderer, he will finish hiking all of Shenandoah NP this year.