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November 2024. Invited by Dr. Grace Muller, Stefano visits the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at the Loyola University in Chicago, IL.

September 2024. New postdoc! Dr. Amin Forouzandehmehr joins our group.

July 2024. Stefano is promoted to Associate Professor in Residence.

Invited by Drs. Cecilia Ferrantini and Leonardo Sacconi, Stefano visits the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine at University of Florence, Italy.

June 2024. New grant! We received the Notice of Award for our first NIH R01 grant titled "Phenotype-specific models, mechanisms, and treatment of HFpEF".

New lab member! Ishaan Dhaliwal joins our group.

May 2024. Stefano hosts Dr. Grace Muller's visit to the Department and "Frontiers in Pharmacology" seminar.

February 2024. Stefano attends the Biophysical Society Meeting 2024 in Philadelphia, PA, to present the ongoing work on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

September 2023. New paper out! Our cross-sex translators of cardiomyocyte electrophysiology are published in JACC Clinical Electrophysiology

August 2023. New paper out! Our study on the role of SK channels in atrial electrophysiology and arrhythmias is published in AJP-Heart & Circulatory Physiology.

Moreover, Stefano receives the 2023 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award for his work with the Biophysics Graduate Group.

April 2023. Edith gives a talk at the 2023 Cardiac Physiome Workshop in Irvine, CA.

March 2023. Our long-term project with Drs. Jordi Heijman and Dobromir Dobrev investigating the role of SK channels in atrial fibrillation is finally published in Circulation Research.

February 2023. Hassaan and Stefano attend the Biophysical Society Meeting 2023 in San Diego, CA.

A few days later, Stefano gives a talk at the "Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms" Gordon Research Conference 2023 in Galveston, TX.

January 2023. New postdoc! Dr. Edith Jones Kiyabu joins our group.

November 2022. Maha Al-Habeeb completes a 5-week rotation in the Lab.

October 2022. New undergrad! Husna Ibrahimkhail joins our group.

September 2022. Dr. Hassaan Bukhari becomes the first postdoc in the Lab.

June 2022. Stefano gives an invited talk in the Rosa & Co. Webinar Series “Impact of modeling & simulation in drug development”.

April 2022. New grant! Stefano is awarded the UC Davis School of Medicine Early Career Faculty Funding Opportunity “Novel Program to Identify, Support and Retain Biomedical Researchers Impacted by Pandemic Caregiving Challenges”.

March 2022. Stefano gives an invited talk at the UC Davis Cardiovascular Symposium 2022 “Cell diversity in the cardiovascular system, cell-autonomous and cell-cell signaling”.

February 2022. Stefano presents a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting 2022 in San Francisco, CA.

November 2021. New paper out! Our cross-species translators of cardiomyocyte electrophysiology are published in Science Advances. Read press release here.

Stefano gives an invited talk at the Cardiac Physiome Workshop 2021 – CiPA Satellite Meeting.

May 2021. New paper out! Our manuscript investigating how intracellular sodium affects sinoatrial node activity is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Stefano gives an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2021.

March 2021. New undergrad! Milca Girmai joins the Lab.

February 2021. Stefano presents a poster at the Biophysical Society Meeting 2021.

October 2020. Stefano is selected for the 2020 Junior Faculty Networking Cohort of the Journal of General Physiology, a program designed to support and connect junior faculty in the first stage of their independent careers.

July 2020. Stefano joins the faculty of the UC Davis Department of Pharmacology. Brianna Fabian is the first undergraduate student in the newborn Morotti Lab.