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