Email

alopezii@central.uh.edu

Positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Biomedical Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, Texas United States

Graduate Student

Irina Larina Lab
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Houston, TX US

Addresses

University of Houston (Lab)

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

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