Kirk Personius

PT, PhD

Kirk Personius.

Kirk Personius

PT, PhD

Kirk Personius

PT, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program

Research Topics

Neuromuscular development and regeneration, animal models of neuromuscular disorders, and sarcopenia.

Overview Scholarship News

Grants

  • Improving Function after T Regulatory cell responses in Toxoplasma-infected muscle, NIH R01 1R01AI162756-01A1 (PI: Wohlfert) Co-Investigator (Personius) 2022-2027
  • Peripheral Nerve Injury, SUNY Research Seed Grant Program, RSG201044.2 (PI: Personius) 2020-2022
  • Role of NANOG in improving function after peripheral nerve injury, CTSI Translational Pilot Studies Program (PI: Personius) 2021-2022

Selected Publications

  • Personius KE and RJ Balice-Gordon (2001) Loss of correlated motor neuron activity during synaptic competition at developing neuromuscular synapses.  Neuron 31: 395-408.
  • Personius KE, Chang Q, Mentis GZ, O’Donovan MJ, and RJ Balice-Gordon (2007) Reduced gap junctional coupling leads to uncorrelated motor neuron firing and precocious neuromuscular synapse elimination.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104: 11808-11813.
  • Kulakowski SA, Parker SD, and KE Personius (2011) Reduced TrkB expression results in precocious age-like changes in neuromuscular structure, neurotransmission and muscle function. J Appl Physiol. 111:844-852.
  • Personius KE, Siebert DM, Koch DW, and Udin SB (2022) Blockade of neuromuscular glutamate receptors impairs reinnervation following nerve crush in adult mice. Front Cell Neurosci 22: September 2022 https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2022.1000218
  • Rajabian N, Ikhapoh I, Shahini S, Choudhury D, Thiyagarajan R, Shahini A , Kulczyk J, Breed K, Saha S, Mohamed MA, Udin SB, Stablewski A, Seldeen K, Troen BR, Personius K and ST Andreadis (2023) Methionine adenosyltransferase inhibition decreases insulin resistance and restores strength of aged skeletal muscle. Nature Communications 14: Article number: 886. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36483-3