Megan Killian
@megankillian.bsky.social
I was a #firstgen college student in engineering, now tenured professor at UMich. Skeets are my own.
I lead a team studying musculoskeletal physiology, development, and healing. We study how the skeleton grows and how connective tissues guide this process.
I lead a team studying musculoskeletal physiology, development, and healing. We study how the skeleton grows and how connective tissues guide this process.
August 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Grateful to attend the Myogenesis GRC in Tuscany this week, where I met loads of new people, learned a ton about MuSCs and fibroblasts, and gave a short talk on our optogenetics work
June 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Grateful to attend the Myogenesis GRC in Tuscany this week, where I met loads of new people, learned a ton about MuSCs and fibroblasts, and gave a short talk on our optogenetics work
Yesterday was an awesome day in science, with the 9th annual MSK Symposium for the MiMHC @umich.edu!
Great talks from faculty and trainees, featuring work from across Southeast Michigan🦷🦴
🎉Lavi won the Speakers Choice poster award
💪Alayna Loiselle was the keynote speaker @urochester.bsky.social
Great talks from faculty and trainees, featuring work from across Southeast Michigan🦷🦴
🎉Lavi won the Speakers Choice poster award
💪Alayna Loiselle was the keynote speaker @urochester.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Yesterday was an awesome day in science, with the 9th annual MSK Symposium for the MiMHC @umich.edu!
Great talks from faculty and trainees, featuring work from across Southeast Michigan🦷🦴
🎉Lavi won the Speakers Choice poster award
💪Alayna Loiselle was the keynote speaker @urochester.bsky.social
Great talks from faculty and trainees, featuring work from across Southeast Michigan🦷🦴
🎉Lavi won the Speakers Choice poster award
💪Alayna Loiselle was the keynote speaker @urochester.bsky.social
We had three talks and three posters including late breaking talk by Nicole, Stephs first podium at ORS, and Allies poster in the Undergraduate session! + @sssteltz.bsky.social competed in the Tendon Section 3min thesis!
Our chair, Dr. Caird, also received the Womens Leadership Forum Award!!
Our chair, Dr. Caird, also received the Womens Leadership Forum Award!!
February 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We had three talks and three posters including late breaking talk by Nicole, Stephs first podium at ORS, and Allies poster in the Undergraduate session! + @sssteltz.bsky.social competed in the Tendon Section 3min thesis!
Our chair, Dr. Caird, also received the Womens Leadership Forum Award!!
Our chair, Dr. Caird, also received the Womens Leadership Forum Award!!
Tour de force and a full house at Kahn for an amazing PhD defense by @brandontwchen.bsky.social
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January 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Tour de force and a full house at Kahn for an amazing PhD defense by @brandontwchen.bsky.social
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🥰🥳 @kaesser.bsky.social 2024 John and Margaret Faulkner Lecture at UMich Physiology
December 4, 2024 at 9:12 PM
🥰🥳 @kaesser.bsky.social 2024 John and Margaret Faulkner Lecture at UMich Physiology
We were relieved to find that, while the ChR2-EYFP muscle was functional impaired compared to wildtype controls, the ChR2-only muscle was physiologically normal, and also reached peak twitch force more quickly than the ChR2-EYFP muscle when using blue light to initiate contraction.
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
We were relieved to find that, while the ChR2-EYFP muscle was functional impaired compared to wildtype controls, the ChR2-only muscle was physiologically normal, and also reached peak twitch force more quickly than the ChR2-EYFP muscle when using blue light to initiate contraction.
She also characterized muscle structure, using histology and TEM, and found significantly smaller fibers in the ChR2-EYFP muscle compared to Cre-negative and ChR2-only mice. Syeda also did not find vacuoles in the ChR2-only muscle, which was a relief.
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
She also characterized muscle structure, using histology and TEM, and found significantly smaller fibers in the ChR2-EYFP muscle compared to Cre-negative and ChR2-only mice. Syeda also did not find vacuoles in the ChR2-only muscle, which was a relief.
Syeda set off to identify if and how the ChR2-EYFP strain differed, functionally, from this new ChR2-only strain that @brianglancylab.bsky.social developed. She characterized muscle function using a battery of physiological tests by measuring muscle force in response to electrical stimulation
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Syeda set off to identify if and how the ChR2-EYFP strain differed, functionally, from this new ChR2-only strain that @brianglancylab.bsky.social developed. She characterized muscle function using a battery of physiological tests by measuring muscle force in response to electrical stimulation
He shared with us some confocal and transmission electron microscopy images that showed aggregation and vacuoles in the sarcolemma of myofibers in the Ai32 mice when using a different muscle-related Cre line than ours, suggesting an accumulation of protein on the membrane 😬 We found the same thing!
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
He shared with us some confocal and transmission electron microscopy images that showed aggregation and vacuoles in the sarcolemma of myofibers in the Ai32 mice when using a different muscle-related Cre line than ours, suggesting an accumulation of protein on the membrane 😬 We found the same thing!
Following a tweetorial on our CTR pub in 2020, @brianglancylab.bsky.social reached out via DM to chat about these mice. What we thought was general eYFP expression in muscle (shown in green in C) was something his lab had been interested in as well- and they found some problematic issues w/ it.
December 3, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Following a tweetorial on our CTR pub in 2020, @brianglancylab.bsky.social reached out via DM to chat about these mice. What we thought was general eYFP expression in muscle (shown in green in C) was something his lab had been interested in as well- and they found some problematic issues w/ it.
Look what I made! 🦋
With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Look what I made! 🦋
With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com
After 15 years, it's time to say goodbye
November 16, 2024 at 12:16 AM
After 15 years, it's time to say goodbye
Amazing talk @accorsi-alice.bsky.social!! So excited to see what you will discover at UCDavis #cpod
November 13, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Amazing talk @accorsi-alice.bsky.social!! So excited to see what you will discover at UCDavis #cpod
HBD to this tiny queen who has been with me for 17 years!!
September 5, 2023 at 12:33 AM
HBD to this tiny queen who has been with me for 17 years!!
Everything is local except the avos
September 3, 2023 at 10:43 PM
Everything is local except the avos
The fall harvest
September 3, 2023 at 10:22 PM
The fall harvest
Thankful to my office neighbor, Lisa, who gifted me her couch and now I have found actual comfort in my job
August 29, 2023 at 12:59 PM
Thankful to my office neighbor, Lisa, who gifted me her couch and now I have found actual comfort in my job
It's a nice time to live in michigan
August 27, 2023 at 9:38 PM
It's a nice time to live in michigan
We have a bread shortage in Ann Arbor but I found a loaf under my bed!
August 27, 2023 at 9:32 PM
We have a bread shortage in Ann Arbor but I found a loaf under my bed!
In case anyone needs a translator, this helps
July 5, 2023 at 12:14 AM
In case anyone needs a translator, this helps
Cute cats get stats
July 3, 2023 at 10:39 PM
Cute cats get stats