Rate My Professor Michelle Munro

Munro earned her MSc and PhD in Physiology from the University of Auckland between 2012 and 2016. Following her doctorate, she joined the University of Otago, where she has built a robust research portfolio. She has secured competitive funding, including grants from the Heart Foundation of New Zealand for studies on protein interactions in atrial fibrillation and from the Health Research Council for investigations into calsequestrin's role in calcium balance. In 2019, she received the New & Emerging Researcher Award from the Physiological Society of New Zealand. Key publications include 'Junctophilin-2 in the nanoscale organisation and functional signalling of ryanodine receptor clusters in cardiomyocytes' (Journal of Cell Science, 2016), 'Increased collagen within the transverse tubules in human heart failure' (Cardiovascular Research, 2017), 'Clustering properties of the cardiac ryanodine receptor in health and heart failure' (Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2023), and 'Human Atrial Fibrillation Is Not Associated With Remodeling of Ryanodine Receptor Clusters' (Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021). Munro actively disseminates her findings through presentations at international conferences, including the Gordon Research Conference on Muscle: Excitation-Contraction Coupling and the International Society for Heart Research early career investigator symposium. She contributes to the academic community as an Early Career Researcher representative on the Pūtahi Manawa Board.