Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute
Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences
Education:
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 2004 (B.S., Molecular Biology) Mentor: Walt R. Stevenson, Ph.D.
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, August 2006 (M.S., Physiology) Mentor: Richard L. Moss, Ph.D.
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, December, 2009 (Ph.D., Physiology) Mentor: Richard L. Moss, Ph.D. Doctoral Dissertation: “Regulation of Myocardial Cross-bridge Cycling Kinetics by Myosin Binding Protein-C: Structural Insights from X-Ray Diffraction Studies.” Dissertation Advisor: Richard L. Moss, Ph.D. External Advisor: Thomas C. Irving, Ph.D. (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, December 2012 (Post-doctoral Fellow: Biochemistry & Biophysics) Mentor: David D. Thomas, Ph.D.
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, August 2015 (Research Associate: Biochemistry & Biophysics) Mentor: David D. Thomas, Ph.D.
Additional Education/Certifications:
- National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne, IL, July, 2006. Selected to attend this one-week program on the ANL campus, designed to provide intensive training for graduate students with a research focus in the use of major neutron and X-ray facilities (synchrotron). 1 of 40 students accepted annually out of 275 applicants.
- Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Certificate Program Siracusa, Italy, April, 2016. Selected to participate in this one-week ‘boot-camp’ style certificate program for intensive training in translational medicine. http://eurekainstitute.org/certificate-course/
Honors and Awards:
- Graduated from the National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, Argonne National Laboratories. 1 of 40 students accepted annually out of 275 applicants 2006
- Press release, “Deconstructing Heart Muscle.” Appeared in the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Annual Report. Article was written by J. R. Minkel, a contributing journalist to Scientific American, based on my J Mol Biol 2007 publication, recognized as one of the outstanding research results from the Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) X-ray facility located at the APS 2007
- Cover Figure for August 1, 2008 issue of Circulation Research (103, 244-251). This figure was also used as the cover image for large format posters to advertise journal at national scientific meetings, such as American Heart Association meetings 2008
- First author manuscript selected for editorial commentary in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016
- Selected to attend/graduated from Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine Certificate Program, Sicily, Italy 2016
Selected Publications:
Palumbo S, Shin Y, Ahmad K, Desai A, Quijada H, Mohamed M, Knox A, Colson B, Sammani S, Wang T, Garcia JGN, and Hecker L. 2017. Dysregulated Nox4 ubiquitination contributes to redox imbalance and age-related severity of acute lung injury. American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 312(3):297-308. PubMed ID: 28062482
Lai S, Collins BC, Colson BA, Kararigas G, Lowe DA. 2016. Estradiol Modulates Myosin Regulatory Light Chain Phosphorylation and Contractility in Skeletal Muscle of Female Mice. American Journal of Physiology – Endocrinology and Metabolism. 310(9):724-733. PubMed ID: 26956186
Colson, BA, Thompson AR, Espinoza-Fonseca LM, Thomas DD. 2016. Site-directed Spectroscopy of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C Reveals Effects of Phosphorylation on Protein Structural Dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113(12):3233-3238. PubMed ID: 126908877
Colson BA, Petersen KJ, Collins BC, Lowe DA, Thomas DD. 2015. The Myosin Super-Relaxed State is Disrupted by Estradiol Deficiency. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 456(1):151-155. PubMed ID: 25446114
Espinoza-Fonseca LM, Colson BA, Thomas DD. 2014. Effects of Pseudophosphorylation Mutants on the Structural Dynamics of Smooth Muscle Myosin Regulatory Light Chain. Molecular Biosystems. 10(10): 2693-2698. PubMed ID: 25091814
Colson BA, Rybakova IN, Prochniewicz E, Moss RL, Thomas DD. 2012. Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein-C Restricts Intrafilament Torsional Dynamics of Actin in a Phosphorylation-dependent Manner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109(5):20437-42. PubMed ID: 23169656
Colson BA, Gruber SJ, Thomas DD. 2012. Structural Dynamics of Muscle Protein Phosphorylation. Journal of Muscle Research and Cellular Motility. 33(6): 419-429. PubMed ID: 22930331
Colson BA, Patel JR, Chen PP, Bekyarova T, Abdalla MI, Tong CW, Fitzsimons DP, Irving TC, Moss RL. 2012. Myosin Binding Protein-C Phosphorylation is the Principal Mediator of Protein Kinase A Effects on Thick Filament Structure in Myocardium. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 53(5):609-616. PubMed ID: 22850286
NIH High School Student Research Program:
Harun Abdi, Desert View High School, 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017