Subgroup Chairs: Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, USA and Shanna Hamilton, University of Arizona, USA
Symposium Day and Time: Saturday, 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, The 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 AM 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