The Heart and Muscle Metabolism (HaMM) lab is an undergraduate research laboratory led by Steve Kolwicz, PhD.

Ursinus College, Pennsylvania
Joined November 2019
The persistence of changes in insulin sensitivity and metabolic gene e... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Another year of research completed @UrsinusCollege. Incredibly proud of these undergraduate students. Their hard work and dedication is truly appreciated. Best of all, they are all sophomores, so I get to work with them for 2 more years!
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Incredibly proud of my former undergraduate student (graduated in May 2023) for presenting her honors research project at #AHA23. Two acceptances to med school and counting!
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New logo for the lab! Thanks to Lexi and Bree in College Communications @UrsinusCollege
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With the Fall semester starting next week, here are some highlights of the summer including: 1) participating in the FUTURE summer research program;
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3) Getting the Wordle on the first guess;
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4) Promotion and tenure became official!
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Congratulations to HaMM lab and Ursinus alum @LolaInSTEM for officially becoming a PhD candidate! We are so proud of you!
Lola passes her comprehensive exam! Congratulations @LolaInSTEM !! sueishaqlab.org/2023/05/23/l…
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Congratulations to the Epsilon Beta Chapter at Ursinus College. They recently inducted 18 new Future Professional members at the college’s Celebration of Student Achievement event.
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Incredibly proud of these undergraduate students who presented their research projects at our college wide Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA) event! #Ursinus #undergraduateresearch
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Hello, old friend. So good to see you again! #13C #NMR #cardiacmetabolism #ursinus
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HaMM_Lab_Ursinus retweeted
4/ 4 We CONGRATULATE authors of the top-cited papers published in @PhysRep during 2022! Holcomb et al, Sex differences in endurance exercise capacity and skeletal muscle lipid metabolism in mice dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.151… #OpenAccess #Myotwitter
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That moment when grading student papers makes me laugh out loud... "Long ago in ancient times, which was about 100 years ago,..." Good to know I'm about half-ancient...
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HaMM_Lab_Ursinus retweeted
Hans Krebs who identified the citric acid cycle - also known as the Krebs cycle - was born on this day in 1900. The cycle is a series of reactions that convert nutrients into other molecules with a large amount of chemical energy.
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What happens when 80 students spend 8 weeks engaged in academic research with a faculty mentor? It's a question that's been answered annually for 20+ years thanks to our #UrsinusSummer Fellows program. Learn about some of this year's impressive projects @ ursinus.edu/offices/research….
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Spent the last 8-weeks with this amazing undergraduate student performing isolated mouse heart experiments. So proud that she learned the technique and got some data! Even convinced her to do more as part of her senior honors project! #SummerFellows #UrsinusCollege
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On Saturday, May 14th, in addition to celebrating the Class of 2022's graduation, I met former Philadelphia Eagles legend, Vai Sikahema, and received the 2022 Lindback Distguished Teaching Award.
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I’d like to nominate this for the Academic Acknowledgments Hall of Fame
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