Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Skeletal Muscle Development: New Perspectives
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Opening Remarks
7:55 pm - 8:40 pm
"Mixing and Matching Developmental and Regenerative Myogenesis"
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
"Molecular Profiling of Human Sarcopenia Across Ethnicities"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
"Dynamic Muscle Precursor Cell Movements in Zebrafish Require Six-Family Genes"
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
The Complexity of Skeletal Muscle Architecture
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Cancer, Bone, Muscle and Metabolism: What's the Connection"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Cell-Cell Interactions Regulating Muscle Adaptation"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Endothelial Pfkfb3 Controls Muscle Regeneration by Instructing a Lactate Mediated Switch in Macrophage Polarization"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:10 am
"Force-Mediated Coupling of Muscle Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation During Regeneration"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"Myonuclei Organization in Mature Muscle Fibers: Controlling Muscle Behavior"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
"Regulation of Nuclear Size, Position and Activity in the Muscle Fiber"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building and Maintaining Skeletal Muscle: Activity and Metabolism
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Novel Players in Muscle Wasting and in Metabolic Adaptation to Exercise"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Metabolic Regulations of Adult Muscle Stem Cell Fate"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
"A Novel Link Between the Ubiquitin Proteasome System and Mitochondrial Function to Control Muscle Metabolism"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
"Splicing Factor Scaf6/CHERP Regulates Muscle Development in Drosophila "
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Metabolic Defects Promote Muscle Degeneration in a Muscular Dystrophy Model"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Muscular Diseases
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"High Level of Dystrophin Produced by Trans-Correction of Resident Nuclei upon Fusion of Myogenic Cells Expressing U7 snRNA to Skip Exon 51"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Pathomechanisms and Therapies for the Muscular Dystrophies"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"The Extracellular Matrix Environment in DMD Impairs Stem Cell Function"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"PAX7, DUX4 and Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Collagen VI Deficiency: Mechanisms and New Gene and Transcript Directed Therapeutic Strategies"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"NF-κB Function in the Muscle Microenvironment Controlling Cancer Cachexia"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Building and Maintaining Skeletal Muscle: Muscle Homeostasis
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Aging"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"TGFβ Signaling Curbs Cell Fusion and Muscle Regeneration"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"The BTB-Zinc Finger Fallen Angel Regulates a Transcriptional Switch During Mid-Muscle Development Instructing Sarcomere Maturation"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Mechanisms of Activity-Dependent Muscle Growth"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Epigenetic, Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Myogenesis
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Epigenetics of Skeletal Myogenesis"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Polycomb Dysfunctional Transcriptional Repression Contributes to Lamin A/C Dependent Muscular Dystrophy"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"RNA-Mediated Gene Expression Control in Myogenesis"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:10 am
"Pax3 Cooperates with Ldb1 to Direct Local Chromosome Architecture During Myogenic Lineage Specification"
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am
"Metabolism Regulates Muscle Stem Cell Self-Renewal by Connecting the Microenvironment and Histone Acetylation"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
"Regulation of DUX4 in FSHD Muscular Dystrophy"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Intrinsic Signaling in Muscle Cells
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Molecular Regulation of Stem Cell Quiescence"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Transcriptional Regulation of Muscle Diversity in Drosophila Embryos"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Hedgehog Signalling in the Control of Satellite Cell Activity and Muscle Regeneration"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Paxbp1 Is Indispensable in Adult Muscle Satellite Cells During Injury-Induced Muscle Regeneration"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Extrinsic Regulation of the Muscle Microenvironments
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Modulation of Regeneration by Stromal Signalling"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Nfix and Macrophages in Acute and Chronic Muscle Regeneration"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"The 'Kairos' of Neutrophil Activity in Muscle Regeneration and Dystrophy"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Balancing ECM Modifications and Transcriptional Regulation During Muscle Regeneration"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
"Signaling Surprises in Quiescent Muscle Cells"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
"Exploring the Hippo Pathway as a Post-Natal Regulator of Skeletal Muscle"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Regulation of Satellite Cells by Niche Adherens Junctions"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Satellite Cells and Regeneration
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Function"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Combinatorial Signalling Defines the Activation Network in Muscle Stem Cells"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
"A Role of Twist2 in Physiological and Pathological Myogenesis"
7:10 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:25 pm
"Muscle Stem Cell Necroptosis Is Required for Efficient Regeneration in Chronic Regenerative Disease"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Dynamics of Muscle Stem Cell Function During Tissue Growth and Repair"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure