Troy Hornberger: Principle Investigator
Started the lab at UW-Madison in 2007. Loves everything about skeletal muscle and trying to figure out how mechanical signals regulate its size.
Kent Jorgenson: Graduate Student
Ph.D. student in the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology program that joined the lab in 2018. Kent’s dissertation is focused on defining the ultrastructural adaptations that occur during the mechanical load-induced growth of skeletal muscle. P.S. – We’re still trying to figure out how he kept such as serious face for this picture.
Wenyuan Zhu: Graduate Student
Ph.D. student in the CBMS program that joined the lab in 2020. Wen’s research is aimed at identifying the signaling events through which different modes of exercise (e.g., endurance vs. resistance) lead to distinct phenotypic adaptations (e.g., an increase in aerobic capacity vs. an increase in muscle mass, respectively).
Corey Flynn: Graduate Student
Ph.D. student in the CMB program that joined the lab in the fall of 2023. Corey’s research is aimed at identifying novel signaling pathways that are essential for the mechanical load-induced growth of skeletal muscle.
Jamie Hibbert: Postdoctoral Fellow
Jamie began working with the lab in 2020 as a “virtual” member and “physically” started in the lab in the summer of 2021. She is currently funded by an NIH Re-Entry into Biomedical Research Award and her primary research interests are aimed at defining how the mechanical signals imposed on skeletal muscle during exercise get converted into the biochemical events that result in hypertrophy.
Ramy Sayed: Scientist II
Ramy joined the lab in the winter of 2023 after working for several years as an Associate Professor in Veterinary Medicine at Sohag University. Ramy is particularly interested understanding the mechanisms through which aging leads to the loss of muscle mass.
Kiley Melka: Undergraduate
Kiley us an undergraduate that is majoring in genetics and genomics. She joined the lab in 2022 and has been working with TRIM28 knockin/rescue mice that we engineered through the use of both TARGATT- and CRISPR/Cas9-based technologies.
Anthony Lange: Undergraduate
Tony is an undergraduate that is pursuing a double major in pharmacology/toxicology and biology. Tony joined the lab in the summer of 2023 and is studying the roles that myofibril hypertrophy and myofibrillogenesis play in the mechanically induced growth of skeletal muscle.
Marius Meinhold: Visiting Graduate Student
Marius is a PhD student in exercise physiology at the Technical University Munich. Marius is spending several months in the lab to learn new techniques and is also performing a pilot study that is aimed at identifying where newly synthesized proteins accumulate in skeletal muscle (i.e., the sites of growth) after a bout of resistance exercise.
Garrison Lindley: Undergraduate
Joined the lab in 2024 and is majoring in Kinesiology with a certificate in Promoting Activity for Diverse Abilities. Garrison’s current research is aimed at developing quantification procedures for characterizing the basic properties of ROAR’s (Regions of Active Remodeling) that were recently identified by our lab.
Jake Hermanson: Adjunct Graduate Student
Joined the lab as an undergraduate in 2017. Jake is an F31 funded Ph.D. student in UW-Madison’s Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition program and is studying the role of gut microbiota in chronic liver disease. Jake is not currently doing research in our lab, but he still loves skeletal muscle research and remains involved with many of our meetings and discussions.