We are very proud to share that our longtime lab member Izzy Kim has been awarded the amazing Husky 100 distinction for the 2023-24 academic year! Izzy is a current senior in our undergraduate program and has been a member of the CardSS Lab since November 2021. She established herself as a strong research presence in the lab while working with her initial graduate student mentor (Dr. Savannah Bifulco, who graduated this past summer). For the past year, she has…
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New Review on Biomechanics in AFib Published!
We are very proud to share that Dr. Åshild Telle‘s first paper as a member of the lab was published earlier this week in Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy! The title of our review is “Personalized biomechanical insights in atrial fibrillation: opportunities & challenges”. The paper will be available to subscribers via this link. The publisher has provided a second link that will make the paper available to non-subscribers for a limited time, please use this link only if your…
New CardSS Lab Research: Assessing Model Usefulness via Direct Comparison to Clinical Data
We are very proud to announce that co-first authors Dr. Fima Macheret and Dr. Savannah Bifulco have published a new article in JACC EP entitled “Comparing Inducibility of Re-Entrant Arrhythmia in Patient-Specific Computational Models to Clinical Atrial Fibrillation Phenotypes”. The paper is available on the publisher’s website and via PubMed Central.
New CardSS Lab Research Explores Feasibility of Optogenetically Suppressing Ectopic Beats
Congratulations to Alex Ochs on the publication of his most recent original research paper as lead-author in the CardSS Lab. The paper appears in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering in a special issue celebrating 2023’s CMBE Young Innovators (including Pat!). The paper can be accessed via PMCID. In this study, we examine how light stimulation of optogenetic proteins might be a feasible way to suppress triggered arrhythmias induced by ectopic cell-scale excitation (early afterdepolarizations). Getting all of the moving pieces to…
New CardSS Lab Research Published in JAHA: Our First Foray into Explainable ML!
Congratulations to Savannah Bifulco, whose second lead-author original research paper has been published in JAHA. In this study, we use SHAP Analysis (devised brilliantly by CS researchers at our own institution!) to predict the behavior of reentrant activity in computational simulations from geometric features extracted from LGE-MRI alone. Cool beans! Way to go Savannah!
New CardSS Lab Research Published in the Journal of Physiology!
We are thrilled to share that CardSS Lab PhD Student Chelsea Gibbs has published her first paper as lead author for research related to her dissertation. The article is entitled “Graft–host coupling changes can lead to engraftment arrhythmia: a computational study”. This work is a product of our exciting collaboration with Dr. Chuck Murry and other members of his team, working at UW’s Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM; pron. “ice cream”). In this paper, we use models…