S. M. Damo

Quantitative Assessment of Morphological Changes in Lipid Droplets and Lipid-Mito Interactions with Aging in Brown Adipose

This study quantifies age-related changes in lipid droplet morphology and mitochondria-lipid interactions in murine brown adipose tissue using 3D imaging and analysis.

Components of Isolated Skeletal Muscle Differentiated Through Antibody Validation

The paper describes a method to isolate skeletal muscle from mice, generate satellite cells for culture, and validate cell populations using immunofluorescence.

Optimizing In Situ Proximity Ligation Assays for Mitochondria, ER, or MERC Markers in Skeletal Muscle Tissue and Cells

This paper describes a protocol for using proximity ligation assays (PLA) to study protein-protein interactions in mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum contact sites (MERCs) in mouse skeletal muscle tissue and cells.

Creating Optimal Conditions for OPA1 isoforms by Western Blot in Muscle Tissue

This paper presents an optimized western blot protocol to isolate and detect five OPA1 isoforms in muscle tissue.

Ablation of Sam50 is associated with fragmentation and alterations in metabolism in murine and human myotubes

This study shows that Sam50 deficiency in myotubes leads to mitochondrial fragmentation, altered metabolism, and impaired oxidative capacity in both mice and humans.

Three-Dimensional Mitochondria Reconstructions of Murine Cardiac Muscle Changes in Size Across Aging

This study uses 3D imaging to show that mitochondria in aging mouse hearts lose cristae structure and volume, similar to mutations in MICOS complex genes.

Course-based Undergraduate Research Module for Enzyme Discovery Using Protein Structure Prediction

This paper describes a course module that teaches protein structure fundamentals through enzyme discovery research, using comparative analysis of protease structures from different organisms.