~Researchers at Mizzou working on SMA and neurodegeneration. Opinions & likes are my own. Alum of @ColoradoCollege, @mizzou,

Columbia, MO
Joined June 2014
Replying to @PattiDickson
Thank you! Blessed to have completed my thesis work in @PattiDickson’s lab and at @WUSTL @WashUdbbs. Excited to start working with @LorsonLab☺️
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Working on a new collaborative approach for mouse diaphragm EMG! ⁦@LorsonLab⁩ ⁦@sara_ricardez⁩ ⁦@fereshtehbd⁩
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Lorson Lab retweeted
A #Mizzou researcher has successfully shown how click chemistry can be used to more efficiently deliver drugs to treat tumors in large dogs with bone cancer — a process that had previously only been successful in small mice. Read more. ⤵️ fal.cn/3tswP
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Congrats Zayd on being #mizzou 39! Headed to medical school next year to boot! 🐯 🧬
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My team is growing, I am hiring for a full-time research associate. Pls share: pfizer.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com… You’ll be a part of an amazing team with opportunities to collaborate with computational, analytical, high throughput production, and synthetic biology groups!
Nice work @zaydalrawi - congrats on the excellent presentation and award 🥇 🧬 🔬 🐯!
So proud of our amazing undergrad @zaydalrawi who just won a poster award at #ABRCMS2021 !!! 🎉 #proudlabmom
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Thanks for coming to #mizzou and visiting our lab @CMTRF. Great visit and thank you for your continued support for our CMT1A and CMT2E research 🔬 🧬 🐁
CMT research in action! On a recent trip to the University of Missouri, Dr. Chris Lorson showed Susan, our CEO, several #CMT cells through the microscope in his CMT lab. Find out more about both Dr. Lorson’s #research projects: cmtrf.org/research-we-fund/ #cmtresearchfoundation
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Excited to share our new #SMARD1 paper detailing novel patient-based models of disease. Congrats to the entire team! Ighmbp2D564N mouse model is the first SMARD1 model to demonstrate respiratory defects academic.oup.com/hmg/advance…
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The NextGen opening was great yesterday and the building is amazing. But the Bond LSC still has pretty good sunrises. #mizzou
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Congrats to co-first authors Drs. Shababi & @caleythecanuck along with co-authors @sara_ricardez @jmarquezscience @Dr_EViL___ et al. on defining the therapeutic window using AAV9 in SMARD model mice! #mizzou 🔬🧬🐯sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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An exciting new post-doc opportunity at MU through the Research Excellence Program. One spot available in the Lorson lab with a $10,000 signing bonus and attractive starting salary (above NIH pay for starting post-docs). #mizzou #postdoc bit.ly/3uKroWR 🐯🧬🔬
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Congrats to @sara_ricardez and the @LorsonLab on winning the #HHMI Gilliam Fellowship! The fellowship awards diverse and inclusive environments in science, like the one Ricardez Hernandez and Lorson created together in their lab. ow.ly/iNPy50G7Ubm
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Congratulations Dr. Smith! Great work on SMA modifiers and novel SMARD1 modes 🐁 🧬 ⁦@caleythecanuck⁩ Best wishes on the new gig in STL!
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Congratulations to our chapter’s president, @sara_ricardez and her mentor Dr. Lorson @LorsonLab ! The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected them as part of the 50 student-adviser pairs for 2021 Class of Gilliam Fellows. We are so proud of you, Sara!! #WomenInSTEM #HHMI
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A #Mizzou student and professor have been awarded a fellowship to pursue research that will help treat a disease called spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic cause of infant death. #GilliamFellows➡️bit.ly/GilliamFellow
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It’s official! I am extremely honored to be a 2021 HHMI Gilliam Fellow! I am excited to keep learning about @LorsonLab ‘s journey to becoming a principal investigator and how we can increase BIPOC representation in academia together 💪🏽 #GilliamFellows @HHMINEWS – at Missouri, USA
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Congratulations to MU graduate student @sara_ricardez for her inclusion in the 2021 #GilliamFellows class! Amazing accomplishment and looking forward to some great science and development. @HHMINEWS @Mizzou @MUCVM 🐯🔬🧬
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Impaired prenatal motor axon development necessitates early therapeutic intervention in severe SMA stm.sciencemag.org/content/1…
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