Exploring the genetic foundations of vascular disease, cell fate in muscle cells, and nuclear actin dynamics- one cell at a time. @uthealthhouston @mda_uthgrad

Texas Medical Center, Houston
Joined May 2023
Knocked out like my cells
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Congratulations on getting white coated Emi!! Ft. Kiara’s White Coat Ceremony, full circle moment 🥹🥼
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Congratulations to our PhD student Emi Esparza for winning 1st place at the GSRD oral presentation competition🥇!!
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Tune in this upcoming Monday for what people are calling the Talk of the Year 😄
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Lab lunch to celebrate our summer students! Hu’s Cooking? More like Hu’s Crying? 😢 gonna miss you guys!
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Proud of our presenters today!! Emi and Yan gave oral presentations and Kiara presented a poster at GSBS’s 2026 Graduate Student Research Day 🔬🧫
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Proud of our Kwartler lab members for their incredible 60 second flash talks and standout poster presentations. And proud of our PI, Dr. Callie Kwartler, and technician Angie Gonzalez for their excellent oral presentations at GCVR 2026 🧬🩵
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Congratulations to our lab members Kiara, Angie, and Aminat on earning second place in the predoctoral poster category at this year’s Gulf Coast Vascular Research Consortium, hosted by LSU Shreveport! 🥈💟
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 👻🎃 - TKL
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Congrats to alumna Callie Kwartler, PhD, Molecular and Translational Biology professor, on receiving the North American Vascular Biology Organization's 2025 Springer Junior Investigator Award! 🎉 She presented her award lecture at their annual Vascular Biology meeting this week.
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So proud to see Dr. Callie Kwartler recognized with the 2025 Springer Junior Investigator Award from NAVBO 🏆 Her work on the epigenetic link between metabolism and smooth muscle cell differentiation continues to push the field forward. #NAVBO #VascularBiology 🧬
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Experiments can wait, paint night can’t. 👩‍🎨🎃
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Happy #PostdocAppreciationWeek! 🥳 Shout-out to our dream team: Dr. Alexis Richard & Dr. Shuvra Roy (pictured) + Dr. Jeison Garcia & Dr. Pujun Guan (not pictured but just as awesome). Thanks for all the wisdom, hustle & laughs, you keep the science running! 🔬💪
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We built a whole website just so you can stalk our science. 🔬👀 👉 thekwartlerlab.com/
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New #advocacy resource! 📣 Use the guide in this thread to find your lawmakers, speak up, share your story, and make the case for #HealthResearch and medical progress! 🗣 🧰 Full toolkit & even more resources: researchamerica.org/2025-aug… #MedicalInnovation #RAAugChallenge 🧵 1/3
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Congratulations to our former research tech turned first year PhD student Emiliano! Happy orientation week 😊🐀
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