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The Biophysical Society's Subgroups hold symposia that allow attendees to meet and interact within focused areas. This year’s subgroup symposia will be held on the first day of the Annual Meeting, Saturday, March 2, 2019. The Saturday Subgroup programs are heavily attended and include exciting scientific symposia, awards presentations, student and postdoc talks, and business meetings, which are open to members of each subgroup. 

To view a subgroup's 2019 symposium program, click on the subgroup's name. 
Subgroup programming details will be posted as they become available. 

For those attending subgroup symposia, registration will be open on Friday and Saturday for badge pick-up prior to the subgroup sessions. Registration for the Annual Meeting is required to attend the subgroup symposia.

 

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Muscle Biology

Subgroup Chairs: Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, USA and Shanna Hamilton, University of Arizona, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM– 12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 204C  

Business Meeting:  11:40 AM- 12:00 PM EST

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:37 AM Christoph Maack, University Clinic in Würzburg, GERMANY
Keynote 1: Mechano-Energetic Uncoupling in Heart Failure

 

9:05 AM Katia Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Skeletal Muscle “Myotrem myopathy: Progress, Challenges, and New Questions

 

9:20 AM Jordan Beach, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Smooth Muscle: “Smooth Muscle Myosin 2 Dynamics in Health and Disease

 

9:35 AM Shanna Hamilton, University of Arizona, USA
New Molecular Regulators of RyR2 and Cardiac Arrhythmia

 

9:50 AM Josine De Winter, Amsterdam University Medical Center , NETHERLANDS
Improving Energetics in NEM6, a Hypercontractile Myopathy

 

10:05 AM Break

 

10:25 AM Marta Campiglio, Medical University of Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
STAC3 in Skeletal Muscle Excitation-Contraction Coupling: A Multifunctional Regulator of Voltage-Induced Calcium Release

 

10:40 AM Jorge Alegre-Cebollada, CNIC, SPAIN
Applications of Titin-Cleavage-Induced Myofiber Dedifferentiation

 

10:55 AM Muscle Biology Postdoctoral Awardee Talk

 

11:10 AM Muscle Biology Early Career Awardee Talk

 

11:25 AM Muscle Biology Mid-Career Awardee Talk

 

11:40 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

 

12:00 PM Julian Ochala, University of Copenhagen, DENMARK
From Hibernation to Heart Failure: Myosin as Energetic Gatekeeper of Cardiac Function

 

12:28 PM Closing Remarks

 



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