Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 8, 2013. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
GRS Speaker Abstract Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the date noted above, any applicants who wish to be considered for an oral presentation should submit their application by April 6, 2013. Please refer to the Application Instructions section below for more details (if available).
The Myogenesis Gordon Research Seminar will be held in conjunction with the
Myogenesis Gordon Research Conference. Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Please refer to the Myogenesis GRC web page for more information.
Meeting Overview
The Gordon Research Seminar on Myogenesis is an opportunity for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience present and exchange new data and ideas in an open and welcoming environment.
This interdisciplinary seminar will cover on a wide range of topics in the field of myogenesis, including muscle specification, evolutionary diversity and stem cell regulation as well as new advances in analysis and treatment of muscle diseases, immune modulation and aging processes.
Application Instructions
The meeting will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The Chairs will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 6, 2013. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Deadline section above.
| SATURDAY |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Frank Schnorrer (Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry)
"Making of the Insect Flight Muscle" |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Mechanisms of Repair |
| Discussion Leader: Gabrielle Kardon (University of Utah) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Peng Hong (State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center)
"Hexim1 Haplodeficiency Enhances Skeletal Muscle Regeneration by Promoting Post-Injury Expansion of Satellite Cells" |
| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Giuliana Rossi (University of Milan)
"The transcription factor Nfix regulates the proper timing of post-natal muscle growth and regeneration" |
| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Ashely Siegel (Monash University)
"Muscle progenitor cell biology in regeneration of the zebrafish" |
| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Danny Stark (University of Missouri)
"Ephrin-A3 directs reinnervation of fast vs. slow twitch muscle fibers following damage" |
| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Muscle Development |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Currie (Monash University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Maria Spletter (Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry) |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Xiaohua Yu (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & School of Basic Medicine)
"MyoD-regulated long noncoding RNA MCD mediated muscle cell differentiation by transcriptionally mediating myogenin expression via FGF/Erk1/2 signaling pathway" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | TBA |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Carlo Lazado (University of Nordland)
"Photic sensitivity and circadian rhythmicity of the fast muscle transcriptome in Atlantic cod, Gadua morhua" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Therapeutic Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Claire Monge (Grenoble Institute of Technology)
"Expansion of satellite cell derived muscle stem cells by modulation of the microenvironment" |
| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Mike Shelton (University of Ottowa)
"Enrichment of skeletal muscle progenitors from embryonic stem cells" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
Last Updated: May 8, 2013