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  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
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  contact_email_fsu_email: ''
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: csolis@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Health and Human Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Health, Food and Nutrition (aka Nutrition and Integrative Physiology) '
  headshot_optional_: '27296'
  if_the_project_location_is_off_campus_does_the_student_need_to_p: ''
  mentoring_philosophy: 'My mentoring philosophy is simple: you can reach the stars if you are in a supportive environment. My goal as a mentor is to provide the right conditions for my mentees to thrive. Examples of how I achieve this are by first and foremost, being available for my mentees to ask questions and get help at the earliest possible. Second, I provide the motivation and the key information for trainees to understand what is the main problem and why it must be solved. Third, I provide my trainees with the career advice they need to that from day one they can start getting feedback of where they can go with their careers. I am cognizant that motivation is an important driver of success because without the right catalyst the smallest challenge ahead will become daunting. '
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  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '3'
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  overall_research_project_description: 'The heart is able to grow in response to exercise. This healthy growth stems from the enlargement of every heart muscle cell in the heart. Heart muscle cells grow by assembling more and more cytoskeleton, known as sarcomere in muscle cells. In the lab, we can force this growth by making cells work harder and their natural response is to build more sarcomeres. One of the proteins that is a structural member of these sarcomeres is alpha-actinin, which acts as a cross-linker to anchor other structural proteins like actin. We recently published a paper demonstrating that we can use two drugs to control the assembly and disassembly of sarcomeres.  To this day, we have tracked the growth by "freezing" the cardiac muscle cells and using special dyes to look at the sarcomeres. Nevertheless, our goal is to be able to track the growth and atrophy of sarcomeres in real time from video capturing. As such, the goal of this project will be to develop an algorithm to quantify the level of growth of these sarcomeres inside the cardiac muscle cells. For that, we have acquired videos of cardiac muscle cells undergoing assembly and disassembly that will serve as examples to develop this algorithm. '
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: |-
    My former lab page: https://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/russell-lab/
    My lab page will come online soon. 
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vAoAMrwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao'
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: Faculty
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Christopher Solis, PhD, MBA'
  project_keywords: 'AI, computer vision, image analysis, cardiovascular, cardiac, programing, coding, MATLAB, Python, R, JavaScript '
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Biology/biological sciences, computer and information sciences, Exercise physiology, Information technology, Health services/allied health/health sciences, Mechanical engineering, Entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial studies, Mathematics, Statistics, Chemical engineering, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Electrical and electronics engineering, Computer engineering, Clinical nutrition/nutritionist, Chemistry, Physics, Bioengineering and biomedical engineering, Computational science, Computational biology. '
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: Him/his
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: |
    The research tasks for this project include the following 
    1) Select the appropriate compiles (MATLAB, PyLab/Python, CellProfiler) to build the algorithm.
    2) "Label videos" using techniques such as semantic segmentation to train algorithm
    3) Train algorithm to identify objects 
    3) Estimate the efficiency of the algorithm
  roundtable_times_and_zoom_links: |-
    Wed, Sept. 6: any 30-min block between 1:00 pm and 8:00 pm.
    Fri, Sept. 8: any 30-min block between 10:00 am and 12:30 pm.
    https://fsu.zoom.us/j/6263906254
  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: 'Experience in coding (e.g MATLAB, Python, R, JavaScript). Some experience in biochemistry is nice to have but not required. '
  title_of_the_project: 'Developing an AI-based particle-tracking algorithm for video-based monitoring of cardiac muscle cell growth and contractility'
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_wh: ''
  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: Prof.
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: ''
  year: '2023'