recent news & activity in the Powers Lab
August, 2025
Joe and Bonnie joined other members of ISCRM in an outreach event in Chehalis, WA where high school students from around the state came to learn about how the heart works! Students came together to form a human-powered “simulation” of ventricular contraction, pushing blood (balloons) out the aorta, and calculating ejection fractions!
June, 2025
Dr. Powers and Dr. Patrick Boyle (UW BioE) were awarded a 2025 Pilot Award from the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research to develop multiscale mechanical computational models of myocytes with defects in cytoskeletal mechanical coupling!
April, 2025
Eesha is making headlines again! This time, Eesha was named one of UW’s Husky 100! Each year, UW honors 100 students who exemplify outstanding leadership, innovation & creativity, and commitment to an inclusive community at UW. Way to go, Eesha!!!
April, 2025
Joe & Liz traveled to the BioCAT Beamline at the synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory to blast cardiac muscle with a high-powered X-ray laser beam!
March, 2025
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Eesha Murali for her acceptance to the M.D. Program at the UW Medical School! We’ll be sad to see Eesha leave our group, but can’t wait to see all of her future accomplishments as a physician! Congrats, Eesha!!
Dr. Powers was awarded a 2024 Pilot Award from the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research!
July, 2024
Dr. Powers was awarded a 2024 Martin-Reichenbach Junior Faculty Award from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology!
June, 2024
Dr. Powers & Dr. Silvia Marchianò were co-awarded a 2024 ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to investigate electro-mechanical signaling in cardiomyocytes!
May, 2024
Florence, Italy | Dr. Powers represented the lab at the European Muscle Conference in Florence, Italy!
September, 2023
Canterbury, United Kingdom | Dr. Powers was invited to speak at the Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting, “Towards a More Perfect Union: Multi-Scale Models of Muscle and Their Experimental Validation” in Canterbury!
July 17–20, 2023
Seattle, WA | The Powers Lab officially opened its doors in the departments of Lab Medicine & Pathology and Mechanical Engineering! Come visit the lab in South Lake Union!