Department of Physiology

Victoria Halperin Kuhns Ph. D. Student, CMM - Present

Hometown Baltimore, MD
Education M.S., Biotechnology - Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Cellular and Molecular Biology & Genetics - University of Maryland, College Park
Lab

The Pluznick Lab

Awards and Honors

NRSA Fellowship (2015-2018)

APS Abstract-based Travel Awards (meritorious) for Postdoctoral Fellows, Graduate, and Undergraduate Students [2015 APS Conference: Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Diseases: Physiology and Gender] Halperin Kuhns, VL and Pluznick, JL. “Sex Differences in Renal Gene Expression in a Diet Induced Obesity Model of Diabetic Nephropathy(DN)”

Research Interests

Renal physiology, cardiac physiology, host-fungus interactions, sensory receptors in “non-sensory” tissues.

Publications

  1. Gabelli SB, Boto A, Kuhns VH, Bianchet MA, Farinelli F, Aripirala S, Yoder J, Jakoncic J, Tomaselli GF, Amzel LM. Regulation of the NaV1.5 cytoplasmic domain by calmodulin. Nat Commun. 2014 Nov 5;5:5126. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6126
  2. Agnetti G, Halperin VL, Kirk JA, Chakir K, Guo Y, Lund L, Nicolini F, Gherli T, Guarnieri C, Caldarera CM, Tomaselli GF, Kass DA, Van Eyk JE. Desmin modifications associate with amyloid-like oligomers deposition in heart failure. Cardiovasc Res. 2014 Apr 1;102(1):24-34.
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