Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Single Cell Transcriptomics
Discussion Leader: Stephen Tapscott (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, United States)
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm
Ibrahim Cisse (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany)
"Super-resolution Imaging of Transcription in Live Mammalian Cells"
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm
Omid Mashinchian (Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Speaker Chosen as Best Oral Presentation from Myogenesis GRS Meeting"
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Latest Advances in Understanding Muscle Development
Discussion Leader: Gabrielle Kardon (University of Utah, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Peter Currie (Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Australia)
"Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Dynamics During Growth and Regeneration in Zebrafish Models"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Talila Volk (Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Mechanical Inputs Control Synchronized Transcription"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Krzysztof Jagla (GReD Institute, Clermont Ferrand, France, France)
"Diversification of Muscle Types at a Single Nuclei Level"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Erika Geisbrecht (Kansas State University, United States)
"Latest Advances in Understanding Muscle Development"
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Simon Hughes (Medical Research Council / King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Mechanisms of Zebrafish Muscle Growth"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Clarissa Henry (University of Maine, United States)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factor Controlling Satellite Cell Function
Discussion Leader: Carmen Birchmeier (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin, Germany)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Foteini Mourkioti (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Mechanosensing Regulation of Muscle Stem Cells"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:35 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Jerome Feige (Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland)
"Controlling Satellite Cell Function"
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
D Cornelison (University of Missouri, United States)
"Driving Stemness Versus Differentiation in Myogenesis"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 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
Maintaining Myofiber Function
Discussion Leaders: David Glass (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Karyn Esser (University of Florida, United States)
"MyoD1 as a Critical Circadian Clock Partner for Daily Muscle Homeostasis"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Mary Baylies (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States)
"Regulation of Myonuclear Diversity in Skeletal Muscle Fibers"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Peleg Hasson (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
"Fibroblast to Myofiber Fusion Regulates the MTJ"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Delphine Duprez (CNRS, France)
"Regionalization of Myogenesis Within Muscle"
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Rachelle Crosbie (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Role of Sarcospan in Rewiring of Muscle Cell Adhesion to the Extracellular Matrix"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 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
Satellite Cell Quiescence
Discussion Leader: Bénédicte Chazaud (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Thomas Rando (University of California Los Angeles, United States)
"Unraveling the Mysteries of Muscle Stem Cell Quiescence"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:35 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Philippos Mourikis (Mondor Institute @ East-Paris Universisty, France)
"Notch Signaling in Muscle Stem Cell Quiescence"
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Colin Crist (McGill University, Canada)
"Beta-arrestin is a Nuclear Transcriptional Regulator of GPCR Signaling in Quiescent Muscle Stem Cells"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 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
Mechanisms Driving Disease Pathology
Discussion Leader: Peter Currie (Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Australia)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Jim Dowling (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
"Membrane Trafficking Machinery in Muscle Disease"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Ping Hu (Guangzhou Laboratory, China)
"Muscle Stem Cells in Non-muscle Disease"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Stephen Tapscott (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, United States)
"Dux4 and Mechanisms of Pathophysiology in FSHD"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Michael Kyba (University of Minnesota, United States)
"The Double Homeobox Gene Family in Development and Disease"
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Gabrielle Kardon (University of Utah, United States)
"Muscle Destruction and Recovery after Viral Infection"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 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
Metabolic Regulation of Muscle
Discussion Leaders: Rachelle Crosbie (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Clara Peek (Northwestern University)
"Autonomous Circadian Clocks in Muscle Stem Cells and Regeneration"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:35 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
6:35 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Katrien De Bock (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Metabolic Crosstalk in the Muscle"
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm
Mireille Khacho (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"IPS Derived Satellite Cells"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 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(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Epigenetic Control of Muscle Development and Regeneration
Discussion Leader: D Cornelison (University of Missouri, United States)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Chiara Lanzuolo (National Institute of molecular Genetics (INGM) & National research Council (CNR), Italy)
"Chromatin Conformation of Muscle Stem Cells in Physiological and Pathological Muscular Aging"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Michael Rudnicki (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada)
"Molecular Regulation of Satellite Stem Cell Function"
9:45 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
Huating Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
"Multiscale 3D Genome Reorganization During Muscle Stem Cell Lineage Progression and Muscle Aging"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Carmen Birchmeier (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin, Germany)
"Roles of Oscillatory Gene Expression in Muscle Stem Cells"
11:20 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:35 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Hiu Cheung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China)
"Post-transcriptional Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Aging"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:25 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
Contributions of the Niche to Satellite Cell Function
Discussion Leaders: Peleg Hasson (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Institut Pasteur, France)
"Stem Cell Niche Alterations During the Disease Process"
6:20 pm - 6:25 pm
Discussion
6:25 pm - 6:45 pm
Bénédicte Chazaud (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
"Efferocytosis During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:00 pm - 7:05 pm
Discussion
7:05 pm - 7:25 pm
Florian Bentzinger (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
"Stimulation of the Perivascular MuSC Niche Enhances Endogenous Repair in Muscular Dystrophy"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
David Glass (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, United States)
"Mechanisms Governing Skeletal Muscle Aging and Function"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure