Amira Amin

Undergraduate School
Helwan University, Cairo

Research Interests
Cardiovascular physiology, machine learning, molecular biology

Ruwaida Ben Musa

Undergraduate School
M.D., University of Tripoli, Libya

Post-graduate
M.S., Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Research Interests
Studying the role of orexin in cardiorespiratory and autonomic function in wakefulness and sleep – implications for sleep apnea, hypertension and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Nathan Kerr

Undergraduate School
Pittsburg State, Kansas

Research Interests
Elucidating the changes that occur in brain plasticity, as well as the brown adipose tissue, after participation in a resistance training regimen.

Jacob Russell

Undergraduate School
University of Missouri, Columbia

Research Interests
Role of Aldosterone/RECK in adverse remodeling of the heart.

Kimber Schafer

Undergraduate School
Evangel University in Springfield, MO

Research Interests
Exploring how EFhd2 affects calcium signaling to MLKL in necroptotic cell death, and examining the effects of EFhd2 deletion on cardiac function.