Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, Texas United States
- Graduate Student
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Irina Larina Lab
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Houston, TX US
Addresses
- University of Houston (Lab)
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4349 Martin Luther King Blvd
Houston, TX 77204
United States
Education
- PhD from Baylor College of Medicine
- 04/2021 - Houston, Texas United States
- BS from University of Texas at San Antonio
- 12/2011 - San Antonio, Texas United States
Honors & Awards
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar
- Hispanic Scholarship Fund (06/2016)
- Officer Travel Grant Award
- Supported to attend SPIE Photonics West 2017
- The International Society for Optical Engineering (02/2017)
Professional Interests
- Development
- Optogenetics
- Biophotonics
- Cardiovascular Mechanobiology
- Elastography
Websites
Selected Publications
- Andrew L. Lopez, III and Irina V. Larina "Second harmonic generation microscopy of early embryonic mouse hearts." Biomed Opt Express. 2019 May 21;10(6):2898-2908. Pubmed PMID: 31259060
- Shang Wang, Andrew L. Lopez, III, Yuka Morikawa, Ge Tao, Jiasong Li, Irina V. Larina, James F. Martin, and Kirill V. Larin "Noncontact quantitative biomechanical characterization of cardiac muscle using shear wave imaging optical coherence tomography." Biomedical Optics Express. 2014 May;5(7):1980-92. Pubmed PMID: 25071943
- Andrew L. Lopez, III, Shang Wang, Paul A. Overbeek, Kirill V. Larin, and Irina V. Larina "Live 4D optical coherence tomography reveals embryonic cardiac phenotype in novel mouse mutant." Journal of Biomedical Optics. 2015 Sep;20(9):90501. Pubmed PMID: 26385422
- Andrew L. Lopez, III, Jessica Chen, Hyoe-Jin Joo, Melanie Drake, Miri Shidate, Cedric Kseib, Swathi Arur "DAF- 2 and ERK Couple Nutrient Availability in Meiotic Progression during Caenorhabditis elegans Oogenesis." Developmental Cell. 2013 Oct;27(2):227-240. Pubmed PMID: 24120884
- Andrew L. Lopez, III, Shang Wang, and Irina V. Larina "Cardiodynamic Imaging in Mouse Embryos with Optical Coherence Tomography." Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. 2020 Sep;7(4) Pubmed PMID: 33020375
- Andrew L. Lopez, III, Shang Wang, and Irina V. Larina "Optogenetic cardiac pacing in cultured mouse embryos under imaging guidance." Journal of Biophotonics. 2020 Jul;13(11) Pubmed PMID: 32692902
- Andrew L. Lopez, III, Monica D. Garcia, Mary E. Dickinson, Irina V. Larina "Live confocal microscopy of the developing mouse embryonic yolk sac vasculature." Vascular Morphogenesis: Methods and Protocols. 2014 Nov;1214:163-172. Pubmed PMID: 25468603
Funding
- Heart Contraction Regulates the Embryonic Heart’s Extracellular Matrix Organization and Composition - #19PRE34380240 (01/01/2019 - 12/31/2020) Grant funding from American Heart Association
- Contractile Forces and the Development of the Early Heart - #T32HL07676
- $23,376.00 (12/01/2017 - 11/30/2018) Grant funding from Molecular Physiology Departmental NIH Training Grant
- Dynamic Factors in Left-Right Asymmetry during Early Mammalian Cardiogenesis - #T32HL07676 (02/01/2017 - 12/01/2017) Grant funding from Molecular Physiology Departmental NIH Training Grant
- Enhancing Training for Minority Biomedical Researchers - #5R25GM056929 (07/01/2015 - 02/01/2017) Grant funding from Enhancing Underrepresented PhD Education NIH Grant
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