Lab News
The Mourkioti Lab welcome Kevin for his rotation in the winter semester!
January 03, 2024
Looking forward to working with you
Congrats to Nuoying on her new paper at Star Protocols!
December 15, 2023
Good job Nuoying describing this new method!
Dr. Kotsaris presented at the McKay Young Investigator Seminar
December 05, 2023
Great presentation of your work!
Congrats to Nuoying for a successful PhD Defense!
December 04, 2023
We are so happy and proud of you!
Congrats to Mary McCoy, our summer CERM student
August 04, 2023
We are so proud of you! You did an amazing job presenting your summer work at the CERM Symposium! It was a pleasure to have you in the lab this summer. We wish you all the best for the remaining of your studies at UC Merced, California.
Welcome Guillermo!
August 01, 2023
We are happy to have join our lab for the fall semester.
Congratulations to Lauryn for the 1st place award of the best poster!
May 09, 2023
We are so proud of you for this well-deserved award for presenting your lab work during the PREP Regional Symposium at Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Congratulations to Kevin for winning the PPDC award!
May 05, 2023
Kevin was selected by the Pennsylvania Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) as the winner of the "Most Promising Pediatric Medical Device"!
Congrats to Mina Kim for being accepted at the PhD program at UCLA!
April 24, 2023
Keep in touch as we look forward to seeing all the exciting research you will do during your PhD years.
The Mourkioti Lab Welcomes Giorgos in our Team!
April 03, 2023
We look forward to working together. Super excited to have you in our group.
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Ola!
February 01, 2023
Welcome to our team!
Promising innovation by Levin and Mourkioti Labs
December 06, 2022
A series of procedures being developed by a strong collboration between our groups that has the potential to revolutionize hand and limb transplantation within the next decade.
Penn Institute of Aging (IOA) highlights Lauryn's work in the Mourkioti Lab!
December 02, 2022
Lauryn is the first IOA PennPREP Scholar!
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Sam!
November 16, 2022
Looking forward to working with you!
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Dimitris!
October 26, 2022
Very excited to have you in our team!
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab!
October 03, 2022
The lab received a grant from the Department of Defense
Welcome Joan!
September 19, 2022
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Joan. We are excited to work together to better understand the mysteries of regeneration
Congratulations to Sienna for becoming a trainee at the T32 Predoctoral Program in Developmental Biology!
August 01, 2022
Congratulations to Sienna Pyle for her appointment at the Developmental Biology (DB) training grant. We are so proud of you!
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes post-baccalaureate PennPREP student, Lauryn!
June 06, 2022
We are excited to have you in our team and look forward working with you
Congratulations to Sienna!
May 18, 2022
We are so proud for Sienna Pyle who received a Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to support her participation in the 2022 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms.
Promotion News!
May 17, 2022
Our PI has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1st! Really grateful to all lab members (current and past) for their hard work over the years.
Congrats Sienna!
May 12, 2022
Congratulations to Sienna Pyle for a great presentation of her work at the CDB Retreat in Galloway, NJ
The Mourkioti Lab on Penn Medicine News
March 18, 2022
Congratulations to Nuoying Ma et. al. and the rest of the Mourkioti Lab for their Science Advances paper entitled "Piezo1 regulates the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscles via orchestration of stem cell morphological states".
The Levin and Mourkioti Labs welcome Kevin Cobbol
March 07, 2022
Looking forward working with you!
The Mourkioti and Shore Labs on Penn Medicine News
January 14, 2022
Congratulations to Alessandra Stanley, Elisia Tichy, Jacob Kocan, Douglas Robert, Eileen Shore and Foteini Mourkioti for their NPJ Regenerative Medicine paper entitled "Dynamics of skeletal muscle-resident stem cells during myogenesis in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva".
The Mourkioti lab welcomes CAMB/DSRB Rotation Student, Abigail Ridler
January 11, 2022
Looking forward to working with you this semester!
Congratulations to Lexy, Elisia and co-authors!
November 30, 2021
Congratulations to Lexy, Elisia, Jake, Doug, Eileen and Faye. Their manuscript: "Dynamics of skeletal muscle-resident stem cells during myogenesis in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva" has been accepted for publication in NPJ Regenerative Medicine.
The Mourkioti lab welcomes CAMB/DSRB Rotation Student, Chris McAllister
September 20, 2021
We are excited to have you rotate this semester.
Congratulations to Sienna and Nuoying, our graduate students, for passing their Qualifying exams.
August 11, 2021
Good job girls! We are all very happy and proud of you. Now the "real" PhD road begins :)
The Mourkioti Lab Welcomes Ryan!
July 19, 2021
Congratulations to Blake!
June 02, 2021
Congratulations to Blake Hernandez for receiving "The Bridge Fellowship" to join the BE graduate group in Fall 2021! We are so proud and happy for you!
Congratulations to Elisia Tichy and co-authors!
May 11, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Tichy and co-authors for the paper "Persistent NF-κB activation in muscle stem cells induces proliferation-independent telomere shortening" published in Cell Reports!
Dr, Mourkioti's lab in Penn Medicine News!
May 11, 2021
Elisia's Cell Reports paper is featured in Penn Medicine News!
Welcome to the Mourkioti Lab, Ji-Hyung Lee!
May 03, 2021
Welcome to our new postdoc Ji-Hyung Lee
Congratulations to Nuoying for receiving the 1st Poster Price at the BE Graduate Group Research Symposium!
January 13, 2021
Welcome Yujung in the Mourkioti Lab!
November 02, 2020
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes James!
October 05, 2020
Welcome Hamd in the Mourkioti Lab!
September 08, 2020
The Mourkioti Lab Welcomes Sienna Pyle in the lab!
September 01, 2020
Congratulations to Nuoying Ma for being awarded the 2020 SEAS Outstanding Research Award.
May 14, 2020
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Grant Li and Ian Paez!
May 11, 2020
NASA Awards Grant to Mourkioti Lab to Investigate Muscle Tissue Adaptation in Space
February 12, 2020
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Lilianne Sutton in the group!
January 13, 2020
Welcome Blake in the Mourkioti Lab!
November 04, 2019
The Mourkioti Lab on UPenn IOA News!
October 15, 2019
Welcome undergraduate research students, Harry and Beatrix!
September 16, 2019
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab!
August 07, 2019
The lab awarded a NASA grant to study how space-flight-like conditions impact telomere length in muscle stem cells and how that impacts muscle atrophy.
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab!
August 01, 2019
The lab received an R01 from NHLBI-NIH
Congratulations to Lexy!
April 22, 2019
Lexy successfully defended her PhD thesis!
Congratulations to Delia!
April 15, 2019
Delia received a College Alumni Society Research Grant. We are so proud of you!
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab!
February 01, 2019
Faye received a Research Grant from Muscular Dystrophy Association
Welcome Nuoying!
February 01, 2019
Nuoying Ma from the Engineering School joined our lab
Congratulations to Lexy!
August 28, 2018
Lexy's Book Chapter on "Defining Skeletal Muscle Progenitor Lineages" was accepted for publication
Congratulations to Elisia for her paper in Skeletal Muscle
August 27, 2018
Congratulations to the Mourkioti lab!
July 26, 2018
Faye received a Talk Award from FASEB Conference on Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells and Regeneration
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab!
July 01, 2018
Faye received a grant from the Penn Institute of Aging
The Mourkioti Lab welcomes Jake!
May 21, 2018
Jacob Kocan joined the Mourkioti Lab with a PURM grant
Welcome Delia!
May 10, 2018
Delia Chen joined the Mourkioti Lab with a PURM grant
Congratulations to David!
April 17, 2018
David will be a CAMB-DSRB student next year! We look forward to your next career step
Congratulations to the Mourkioti Lab for the URF grant!
March 01, 2018
Faye received a Research Grant from University Research Foundation
Dr. Mourkioti's lab in Penn Medicine News!
September 08, 2017
Elisia's Stem Cell Reports paper is featured in Penn Medicine News
Welcome to Mourkioti Lab, Zachary!
September 07, 2017
Welcome to our new rotation student Zachary Beethem!
Dr. Mourkioti's Lab in Penn Medicine News!
September 06, 2017
Maryam's paper is featured in Penn Medicine News.
Welcome to Mourkioti Lab, Sylvia!
September 04, 2017
Welcome to our new rotation student Sylvia Stankov!
Welcome to Mourkioti Lab, Yuwei!
September 04, 2017
Welcome to our new rotation student Yuwei Qi!
Paper accepted for publication - Mourkioti Lab
August 01, 2017
Congratulations to Elisia Tichy, David Sidibe, Maryam Sharifi-Sanjani and F. Mourkioti for their paper titled: "Single Stem Cell Imaging and Analysis Reveals Telomere Length Differences in Diseased Human and Mouse Skeletal Muscles"
Paper accepted fro publication- Mourkioti Lab
July 18, 2017
Congratulations to Maryam Sharifi-Sanjani, Nick Oyster, Elisia Tichy http://www.med.upenn.edu/mourkiotilab/ F. Mourkioti for their manuscript titled "Cardiomyocyte-Specific Telomere Shortening is a Distinct Signature of Heart Failure in Humans"
Congratulations to Dr. F. Mourkioti
July 03, 2017
Congratulations to Mourkioti Lab on being awarded an American Heart Association Grant-In-Aid Grant to study the mechanism of dystrophic cardiomyopathy.
Paper accepted for publication - Mourkioti Lab
June 20, 2017
Congratulations to Maryam Sharifi-Sanjani and Dr. F. Mourkioti for their manuscript titled: "Evaluation of telomere length in human cardiac tissues using cardiac quantitative FISH"
F31 Predoctoral National Research Service Award
June 01, 2017
Congratulations to Lexy for her F31 Predoctoral National Research Service Award from NIAMSon "Intersection of Upregulated BMP Signaling and Cellular Mechanotransduction in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)"!
Muscle Training Grant
May 01, 2017
Congratulations to Lexy for her Muscle Training Grant from the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute!
Nature Protocols paper by Maryam
April 01, 2017
Congratulations to Maryam for her Nature Protocols paper!
Paper in Muscle & Nerve by Elisia
January 01, 2017
Congratulations to Elisia for her paper in Muscle & Nerve!
Welcome Ranmaru!
November 01, 2016
Ranmaru Shimoda, an exchange student from Japan, is joining our lab.
Welcome David!
September 01, 2016
David Sibide joins our lab as Research Specialist A.
Welcome Maryam Sharifi-Sanjani
July 13, 2016
Maryam becomes our new post doctoral fellow and will be working hard to advance our cardiac project. Welcome Maryam!
Congratulations Dr. Mourkioti
July 13, 2016
Faye becomes Co-Director of the Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program at the Penn Institute of Regenerative Medicine
McKay Seminar Series for Young Investigators
May 01, 2016
Elisia presented her work at the McKay Seminar Series for Young Investigators
CDB Annual Retreat Presentation
May 01, 2016
Maryam's abstract was selected for oral presentation at the CDB Annual Retreat May 12-13, Galloway, NJ
Welcome Lexy!
January 01, 2016
We are excited to have Alexandra (Lexy) Stanley as member of our team!
Welcome Taylor!
November 01, 2015
Taylor Gardiner has joined our lab as a Undergraduate Research Technician. She will be assisting lab members with a variety of tasks including PCR preparations and mouse colony maintenance.
Welcome Taylor!
October 01, 2015
We welcome Taylor Gardiner in our lab!
Welcome Danae!
April 01, 2015
Jungsun (Danae) Yoon starts working in the lab. Welcome Danae!
Congratulations Elisia
February 26, 2015
Elisia Tichy recently won a travel award through the University's Biomedical Postdoctoral Program. She will be attending the Muscular Dystrophy Association meeting in Washington, D.C.Great job, Elisia!
Welcome Chris Greer
January 16, 2015
Chris Greer is doing his second rotation in our lab. Welcome Chris!
Renovation Party
December 17, 2014
As a thank you to all those that worked hard to complete the renovations Faye had a small party to show off the new space.
Congratulations to the New Parents
November 19, 2014
Lab manager, Nick Oyster, and his wife Michelle welcomed their first baby into the world on November 20th. Ethan Oyster tipped the scales at 8 pounds 15 ounces.
Nick Oyster joins the lab!
July 01, 2014
Nick Oyster joins the Mourkioti lab as its first lab manager. He brings 9 years of lab experience from the University of Pittsburgh.Welcome Nick!