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== Anna Raskin ==
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Email: ajokiel@ucsd.edu

=== Profile ===
I am a fifth-year graduate student at the [http://www.ucsd.edu/ University of California, San Diego], and work in the Cardiac Mechanics Research Lab under PI's Dr. Omens and Dr. !McCulloch.

=== Research Interests ===
I have been working on developing an in vitro model of load induced hypertrophy in isolated cardiac tissue specimens obtained from genetically engineered mouse models of human cardiovascular disease. I have utilized this system to study the mechanisms of mechanotransduction in the heart. 

Defects in the mechanotransduction pathway may lead to heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy. Understanding the mechanisms of mechanotransduction, both biochemical and mechanical, may help identify therapeutic strategies for the prevention and treatment of heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy

=== Thesis Committee ===
Jeffrey Omens Ph.D,    Bioengineering/Medicine, ''Advisor''[[BR]] Andrew McCulloch Ph.D,    Bioengineering, ''Co-Advisor''[[BR]] Masa Hoshijima M.D./Ph.D.,    Medicine[[BR]] Richard Lieber Ph.D.,    Bioenginering/Orthopaedic Surgery[[BR]] Wolfgang Dillman M.D.,    Medicine[[BR]] 

=== Ph.D Dissertation Defense ===
August 21st, 2008 3pm!!!
Location TBA

=== Resume/ CV ===

[attachment:resume2.doc Resume]


=== Presentations ===

[attachment:BP_06.pdf Biophysics '06]

[attachment:BP_07_3.pdf Biophysics '07]

[attachment:BP_08.pdf Biophysics '08]

[attachment:Arizona4.pdf Presentation U.Arizona]

[attachment:EB2008.pdf Experimental Biology '08]

[attachment:thesis_defense.ppt Dissertation Presentation '08]



=== AutoCAD Designs of Cardiac Tissue Mechanics Setup ===

[attachment:Top.pdf Top view]

[attachment:Side.pdf Side view]

[attachment:Confocal_Top.pdf TPA confocal fluorescence imaging system of chronically cultured excised cardiac tissue]

=== Figure for Farah ===

[attachment:cell-figure2.tif Anna's Figure]