Date	Speaker	Title
June, 06 2013	Thomas Chaillou	Time course of gene expression during mouse skeletal muscle hypertrophy
June, 13 2013	Matt Day	Scapular Muscle Performance in Patients with Lateral Epicondylalgia
June, 20 2013	Karyn Esser	The development of team translational science and the Center for Muscle Biology.
July, 11 2013	Robin Cooper	Nerve terminal matching in conjunction with muscle unloading and loading
July, 18 2013	Stavros Drakos, University of Utah (host: Charles Chung)	Mechanical unloading of the failing human heart: myocardial atrophy or recovery?
July, 25 2013
August, 08 2013	Chris Andrews/ Cory Donohoo (YMCA)	LIVESTRONG at the YMCA: A Cancer Survivor Exercise Program
August 12, 2013	Andrew Taberner, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Spring 2013

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Date	Speaker	Title
January 10th, 2013	Charles Chung	grant review
January 17th, 2013	Kevin Pearson	Maternal exercise: Short-term investment for long-term gain
January 24th, 2013	Jason Cholewa	Effects of Betaine on Body Composition, Performance, and Homocysteine Thiolactone
January 31st, 2013	Moriel Vandsburger	Thinking Inside the Box: Elucidating Biological Phenomena with Advanced MRI Methods
February 7th, 2013	Karyn Esser	Translational Research Initiatives within the CMB: Liver disease and muscle weakness
February 14th, 2013	Janna Jackson	Satellite Cell Depletion Negatively Impacts Voluntary Wheel Running Performance in Mice
February 21st, 2013	Campbell lab	Biophysics update
February 28th, 2013	John McCarthy	Ribosome specialization in adult skeletal muscle
March 7th, 2013	David Marcinek	Chalk-talk: The use of 31P MRS for studying mouse muscle bioenergetics.
March 14th, 2013
March 21st, 2013	Kerry McDonald (Ken hosting)	PKA phosphorylation of myofilaments: Bottom up biophysics; does it mean anything physiologically?
March 28th, 2013	Michael Lawlor, Milwaukee, WI (Host: Craig Horbinski)	Emerging Treatments for X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy
April 4th, 2013
April 11th, 2013	Ken Campbell	"MyoSim: a new tool to help understand muscle function"
April 18th, 2013	Chris Waters-Banker	Mechanical Regulation of Inflammatory Gene Expression in Healthy Skeletal Muscle Following Massage
April 25th, 2013	Christoph Lepper (Brandon Fornwalt host)	Age-Dependent Genetic Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells
May 2nd, 2013		EB update (tentative)
May 9th, 2013	Esther Dupont-Versteegden.	In search of a role for endonuclease G in muscle size regulation.
May 16th, 2013	Sara Tanner	Urschel lab update
May 23rd, 2013	Lars Larsson

Fall 2012

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Date	Speaker	Title
September 06th, 2012	Travis Thomas	Grant review: The effect of 12-weeks of aerobic training and targeted vitamin D supplementation on calve muscle IMCL/EMCL distribution and endurance in vitamin D deficient 65-85 year olds.
September 13th, 2012	Robin Cooper	"Deep muscle tissue injury and healing"
September 20th, 2012	Bruce Webb	From Bugs to Biotech Startups: Personal Experiences with UK Intellectual Property, SBIR:STTR Grants and Commercialization
September 27th, 2012	Ken Campbell	Science paper discussion
Wednesday October 3rd (3:00pm)	JP Jin Wayne University	Regulation and function of troponin
Additional seminar: October 04th, 2012	Ming Gong MN463
October 11th, 2012	Charles Chung Washington University St. Louis, MO	Mechanisms of diastolic relaxation: refining our understanding of deactivation and elastic recoil.
October 18th, 2012	Moriel Vandsburger Room: NURS 115
October 25th, 2012		Center for Muscle Biology Annual Retreat
November 01st, 2012
November 08th, 2012	Jolanda van der Velden, VU Medical Center Amsterdam
November 15th, 2012
November 22nd, 2012		Thanksgiving
Friday November 30th, 2012	Gary Chleboun (guest Beatriz Hanaoka)
December 06th, 2012	Jonah Lee
December 13th, 2012	Charlotte Peterson

Summer 2012

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Date	Speaker	Title
June 7th, 2012	Thomas Chaillou	Control of muscle mass in hypoxia: effect during overload-induced hypertrophy and regeneration in rats
June 21st, 2012	Jonah Lee	The role of satellite cells in aged-skeletal muscle maintenance and hypertrophy
June 28th, 2012	Karyn Esser	New ways to think about muscle growth
July 5th, 2012	Dr. Dasarathy	Skeletal muscle loss in liver disease: Bedsite to Bench to Bedside
July 12th, 2012	Chris Fry	Role of satellite cells in skeletal muscle growth and maintenance.
July 19th, 2012
July 26th, 2012	Sage Kramer	Magnetic resonance imaging of micron-scale motion occurring in a matter of milliseconds
August 2nd, 2012	Byron Hempel (contact: Ben Lawson)
August 16th, 2012	Brian Storz Centre College	The ultimate and proximate regulation of myofiber hypertrophy in cannibalistic tadpoles
August 30th, 2012

Spring 2012

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Date	Speaker	Title
January 5th, 2012	Brandon Fornwalt	Grant Review
January 12th, 2012	Michael Toth University Vermont (Karyn’s guest)	Skeletal Muscle Myosin Myopathy in Aging and Chronic Disease: Canary in the coal mine for physical disability
January 19th, 2012	Ratchakrit Srikuea	Analyses of physical function and muscle properties in women with fibromyalgia
January 26th, 2012	Alan Daugherty	Research Integrity issues
February 2nd, 2012	Stuart Campbell & Kelsey Snapp	Transmural Distribution of Myocyte Contractile Properties Is Altered in Aging F344 Rats
February 9th, 2012
February 16th, 2012	Ken Campbell	Grant Review
February 22nd, 2012 SPECIAL TIME: 5-6pm	In Commons: Robbins, University of Pittsburgh	Biological approaches for Treating Musculoskeletal Diseases
February 23rd, 2012		Muscle meeting in Gainesville
March 1st, 2012	Tim Butterfield	Botox study
March 8th, 2012	Campbell lab	Biophysics Conference update
March 15th, 2012	Teresa A. Zimmers Associate Professor Cancer Biology	Kimmel Cancer Center
March 22nd, 2012	Charles Lutz	Fat-muscle crosstalk affects natural killer (NK) lymphocytes
March 29th, 2012	David Powell	Small animal MRI discussion/presentation
April 5th, 2012	Christian Lattermann
April 12th, 2012	Dr. Virginia Kraus Professor of Medicine Duke University
April 19th, 2012	Jonathan Makielski (University Wisconsin)	The cardiac sodium channel macromolecular complex and inherited arrhythmia syndromes
April 26th, 2012		Experimental Biology
May 3rd, 2012	Matt Day	Ultrasound imaging of the lower trapezius and serratus anterior
May 10th, 2012	Stephanie Moore	The effectiveness of massage for improvement of posterior shoulder movement
May 17th, 2012	Katelyn Gurley	Noninvasive optical hemodynamic monitoring in skeletal muscle
May 24th, 2012	Sara Tanner	Lysine requirements and mTOR in the gluteal muscle of yearling horses

Fall 2011

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Date	Speaker	Title	Abstract
July 29th, 2011 FRIDAY	Tim Osborne University of Birmingham, UK	Ultrasound movies of muscle: tracking dynamic movements with a novel planar tracking technology
August 4th, 2011	IBS retreat
August 18th, 2011	Ketema Paul Assistant Professor Morehouse School of Medicine.	Skeletal muscle specific overexpression of Bmal1 leads to an altered sleep phenotype. A neuroscientist reaches out to the muscle community
August 25th, 2011	Gilson Capilouto	Effects of Non-Oral Feeding on Infant Tongue Muscle Size and Force	link
September 1st, 2011	Robin Webb	The Cellular Nucleic Acid Binding Protein in Aging and Degenerative Disease
September 8th, 2011	Jonah Lee, Charlotte Peterson, Chris Fry, Janna Jackson	Satellite cells: stem cells for regenerating muscle?
September 15th, 2011	Tim Lightfoot	Can the muscle regulate physical activity?
September 22th, 2011	Mike Reid & Leslie Crofford	grant review
September 29th, 2011
October 6th, 2011	Brock Symons	Fatigability in Older Persons With and Without Fibromyalgia
October 13th, 2011	Jonah Lee	Project Updates: Human Skeletal Muscle and Macrophage Phenotypes
October 20th, 2011	Magda Muchlinski	Primates are all brain and little brawn: A preliminary investigation into tissue tradeoffs.
October 27th, 2011	Center Muscle Biology Retreat
November 3rd, 2011	Janna Jackson	Recovery of skeletal muscle size without satellite cells
November 10th, 2011	Craig Horbinski Assistant Professor Department of Pathology University of Kentucky	What's important to muscle pathologists
November 17th, 2011	Brandon Fornwalt	Grant review
December 1st, 2011	Tim Leonard (guest Tim Butterfield)	Force production in skeletal myofibrils during stretch
December 8th, 2011	Jennifer van Eyk Johns Hopkins (guest Ken Campbell)	Integrating proteomics: complex mitochondrial protein modifications in heart disease
December 15th, 2011	Lin Yang Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health	Automatic medical image analysis based intelligent imaging informatics and its application for analyzing digitized muscle cells

Spring 2011

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Date	Speaker	Title
01/06/2011	Jerry Supinksi Mike Reid	Mock study section
01/13/2011	Brian Noehren	Mock study section
01/20/2011	John McCarthy	Hypertrophy without satellite cells
01/27/2011	Karyn Esser	Discussion of FOXO/4E-BP Signaling in Drosophila muscles regulates organism-wide proteostasis during aging
02/03/2011
02/10/2011	Ken Campbell	Mock study section
02/17/2011	David Durgan	Postdoc candidate for Esser lab
02/24/2011	Organizational Meeting / Center Development Discussion
03/03/2011
03/10/2011	Campbell Lab	Reports from the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
03/17/2011	Chris Waters Bradley Baumgarner	Waters: F31 predoc review Baumgarner: F32 postdoc review
03/24/2011	Amee Sietz Guest of Tin Uhl	Muscular recruitment during shoulder exercises
03/31/2011	Dr. Oddis	Myositis: From autoantibodies to clinical trials
04/07/2011
04/14/2011	Surendranath Suman	Biomolecular interactions influencing myoglobin chemistry in post-mortem skeletal muscles
04/21/2011	CCTS conference Lexington Convention Center
04/28/2011	Brian Delisle	Cardiac Potassium Channel Dysfunction Associated with the Long QT Syndrome
05/05/2011	Beata Lecka-Cznerik	Title: Energy metabolism in Bone
05/12/2011	John McCarthy	EB update
05/19/2011	Chris Waters
05/26/2011	Tom Irving Illinois Institute of Technology (guest Ken and Karyn)
06/02/2011	Elizabeth Schroder	To be announced
06/09/2011
06/16/2011	Janna Jackson and Jonah Lee	ACSM update
06/23/2011
06/30/2011	Esther Dupont	To be announced
07/07/2011	David Glass	To be announced
07/14//2011	Kevin Nelson	Syncope and Arousal : Neurophysiology in the Borderlands of Consciousness
07/21/2011
07/28/2011	Students Brian Delisle	To be announced
08/04/2011	Robin Webb
08/11/2011
08/18/2011	Ketema Paul	Assistant Professor at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Fall 2010

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Date	Speaker	Title
08/26/2010	Bert Tanner Vermont Molecular Motors Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics University of Vermont	Computational modeling of myofilaments and muscle contraction
09/16/2010	Venkatash Ramakrishna	Effects of interventions on ureteral activity: initial studies in an in vivo animal model
09/23/2010	Guoqiang Yu	How to use advanced near-infrared spectroscopy to evalutate skeleletal muscle
10/18/2010 (Monday, 11 am, MS505)	Astrid Horstman	Functional muscle characteristics after stroke and unloading
10/21/2010	Ratchakrit Srikuea	Skeletal muscle regeneration after contusion injury
11/8/2010 (Monday) 11 am, MS505	Peter Bram 't Hoen University of Leiden, The Netherlands	Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of gene expression during myogenesis evaluated by next generation sequencing
11/18/2010	Paul Janssen Physiology and Cell Biology The Ohio State University	Myocardial contraction-relaxation coupling in health and disease
12/2/2010	Open	To be announced
12/16/2010	Premi Shekar	To be announced

Summer 2010

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Date	Speaker	Title
06/10/2010	Stuart Campbell	Tracking localized effects of aging in the myocardium. Is aging hardest on the outer layers of the heart?
06/24/2010	Ashok Kumar University of Louisville	TWEAKing skeletal muscle in disuse conditions
07/1/2010	Gilson Capilouto	Effects of Non-Oral Feeding on Infant Tongue Muscle Mass and Force: A Proposal
07/29/2010	Janna Jackson West Virginia University	Resveratrol mediates oxidative stress but not apoptosis in aged rodents
08/12/2010	Tim Butterfield	Living in SYN: Quantified synergist muscle contributions to exercise induced damage (and maybe adaptation) in-vivo

Spring 2010

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Date	Speaker	Title
01/14/2010	Alexander Ovechkin Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center University of Louisville	Evaluation of respiratory muscle activation patterns in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury
01/28/2010	Bruce Damon Vanderbilt University	Functional MRI of Human Skeletal Muscle
02/04/2010	Jamie MacLeod Gluck Center	A Sequence Polymorphism in MSTN Predicts Sprinting Ability and Racing Stamina in Thoroughbred Horses
02/11/2010	Martin Lakie School of Sport and Exercise Sciences University of Birmingham, UK	What happens when people stand?
02/25/2010	Esther Dupont-Versteegden	To be announced
03/04/2010	Gregory Graf	Absence of the ABCD2 transporter reveals a novel role for peroxisomal metabolism in both voluntary running wheel activity and run to exhaustion times.
03/11/2010	Matthew Hestand Genome Technology Center at Leiden University Medical Center The Netherlands	Improving muscle specific gene structure annotation and expression analysis with next generation sequencing technologies
03/25/2010	Maria Garcia	Muscle mitochondria are not created equal
04/01/2010	Bahar Sharafi University of Virginia	Micromechanical modeling of skeletal muscle
04/08/2010	Ken Campbell and Ben Lawson	The New Single Muscle Fiber Function Core: What we can measure and what muscle samples we can work with
04/22/10	Mike Mitov	Sex specific mechanisms leading to elevated myocardial stiffness in type 1 diabetes
05/06/2010	Paul Murphy	Myotonic Dystrophy and Alzheimer's Disease are Connected: Who Would've Guessed?
05/13/2010	Jonah Lee Ball State University	Human skeletal muscle protein turnover
05/20/2009	Mike Reid	Sphingolipid Signaling in Skeletal Muscle

Fall 2010

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Date	Speaker	Title
09/10/2009	Ken Campbell & Karyn Esser	A "Double Header" Overview of the Center for Muscle Biology website (Campbell) and Chalk-talk on muscle growth (Esser)
09/24/2009	Tim Butterfield	The reason Sergio Leone made spaghetti westerns was because he knew bunny Westerns would be too much trouble or The potential role of stretch activated ion channels and mechanotransduction in skeletal muscle
10/08/2009	Tim Uhl	How we evaluate dysfunction and regain function in the musculoskeletal laboratory with emphasis on the upper extremity
10/22/2009	Jennifer McKeon	From observation to intervention: the pathway to improving sports clinical outcomes
10/29/2009	Benjamin Infantolino Penn State University Center contact is Ken Campbell.	One size fits all? Variability in Human Muscle
11/05/2009	Gerald Supinski	Diaphragm strength of UK MICU Patients: Initial Studies
11/12/2009	Dillon Walker University of Florida	Satellite cell lineage and nutritional influences on muscle growth
11/19/2009	Fe Dimayagu	M1 and M2 activation of muscle macrophage cell lines
12/03/2009	Carole Moncman	Development of Eye Muscle
12/17/2009	Karyn Esser	Making muscle quality quantitative

Spring 2009

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Date	Speaker	Title
01/15/09	Gerald Supinski	A new mechanism for septic shock
01/29/09	Michael Reid	Center for Muscle Biology Update
02/12/09	Jon Satin	A new signaling pathway in striated muscle
02/19/09	Blake Rasmussen UTMB Galveston	Nutritional and Contractile Regulation of Human Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis
02/26/09	Charlotte Peterson	Multiple PI Challenge Grant Submission on Muscle Hypertrophy/Regrowth: Who is interested?
03/12/09	John McCarthy	Genetic mouse models for the study of physiology in the 21st century and beyond
03/19/09	Stuart Campbell Cardiac Mechanics Research Group University of California, San Diego	Short-range mechanics of myocardium - let's brainstorm!
03/26/09	Leonardo Ferreira	Dynamics of skeletal muscle oxygenation during exercise: clinical insights from computer simulations
04/02/09	Thomas F. Lang Canter for Molecular and Functional Imaging University of California, San Francisco	Hip Fracture - A Musculoskeletal Condition
04/09/09	Misunori Miyazaki	Growth factor-dependent/independent regulation of mTOR signaling and skeletal muscle growth
04/23/09	Sandrine Arbogast	Oxidative stress in SEPN1-related myopathy: clarifying the role of selenoprotein N
04/30/09 Special Time 1 pm CTW403	Amy Ferry	Over-expression of cold shock protein RBM3 is associated with enhanced survival of skeletal muscle cells in vitro
05/07/09	Mihail Mitov	Sex-specific mechanisms leading to elevated myocardial stiffness in Type I diabetes
05/14/09	Kristine Urschel	Understanding the factors that regulate muscle protein and whole-body protein metabolism in horses.
05/21/09	Kathy Myburgh	Muscle Biology in South Africa

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