Albino G. Schifino, PhD

Graduated: 2023

Dissertation: More than mechanotransduction: skeletal muscle contractile dysfunction following volumetric muscle loss injury, and the influence on the adjacent bone

Awards: Distinguished abstract oral presentation (American Physiological Society), Phil & Phyllis Sparling Summer Research Award (University of Georgia Department of Kinesiology)

Publications from Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction Lab:

  1. Pharmaceutical Agents for Contractile-Metabolic Dysfunction After Volumetric Muscle Loss. McFaline-Figueroa J, Schifino AG, Nichenko AS, Lord MN, Hunda ET, Winders EA, Noble EE, Greising SM, Call JA.Tissue Eng Part A. 2022 Sep;28(17-18):795-806.
  2. Compromised Muscle Properties in a Severe Hypophosphatasia Murine Model. Pendleton EG, Nichenko AS, Mcfaline-Figueroa J, Raymond-Pope CJ, Schifino AG, Pigg TM, Barrow RP, Greising SM, Call JA, Mortensen LJ.Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Nov 2;24(21):15905.
  3. Lifelong Ulk1-Mediated Autophagy Deficiency in Muscle Induces Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Contractile Weakness. Nichenko AS, Sorensen JR, Southern WM, Qualls AE, Schifino AG, McFaline-Figueroa J, Blum JE, Tehrani KF, Yin H, Mortensen LJ, Thalacker-Mercer AE, Greising SM, Call JA.Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Feb 16;22(4):1937.
  4. Sexually Dimorphic Effects of a Western Diet on Brain Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Neurocognitive Function. Lord MN, Heo JW, Schifino AG, Hoffman JR, Donohue KN, Call JA, Noble EE.Nutrients. 2021 Nov 24;13(12):4222.
  5. Resistance wheel running improves contractile strength, but not metabolic capacity, in a murine model of volumetric muscle loss injury. Schifino AG, Raymond-Pope CJ, Heo J, McFaline-Figueroa J, Call JA, Greising SM.Exp Physiol. 2023 Oct;108(10):1282-1294.
  6. Differential effects of Western diet and traumatic muscle injury on skeletal muscle metabolic regulation in male and female mice. Heo J, Schifino AG, McFaline-Figueroa J, Miller DL, Hoffman JR, Noble EE, Greising SM, Call JA.J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2023 Dec;14(6):2835-2850.
  7. Tibial bone strength is negatively affected by volumetric muscle loss injury to the adjacent muscle in male mice. Schifino AG, Cooley MA, Zhong RX, Heo J, Hoffman DB, Warren GL, Greising SM, Call JA.J Orthop Res. 2024 Jan;42(1):123-133.

Current Position: Postdoc, Duke University