Drs. Natalia Trayanova and Patrick Boyle to appear on “Maryland Morning” Monday, 9/23

09/19/2013

In this illustration, the “optrode” at left delivers blue light to the heart via a fiber-optic tip. In the enlargement at right, a heart cell (large red oval) contains an implanted light-sensitive “opsin” protein (blue oval) that works alongside the heart’s own proteins (yellow ovals). Graphic by Patrick M. Boyle.The Institute for Computational Medicine’s Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Patrick Boyle, Postdoctoral Fellow, will be interviewed during the Monday, September 23rd episode of Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast on WYPR, 88.1 FM. The interview will focus on research by the Trayanova lab published in the August 28 issue of Nature Communications, entitled, “A comprehensive multiscale framework for simulating optogenetics in the heart”.

Update: An audio segment is posted along with a write-up on the Maryland Morning Website here.

 

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