Research Interests
Dr. Russell is studying mechanisms of cardiac and skeletal myofibril assembly, alignment and structural support, topics central to the pathophysiology of, and development of new therapies for, heart failure, myopathy and muscular dystrophy. His laboratory is currently using cell culture as well as mouse and zebrafish model systems to determine the functions of a novel pair of genes, obscurin and obscurin-like 1, that have been cloned and characterized in his laboratory.