Previous Speakers from other Institutions

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
09/15/2011	Timothy Lightfoot	Omar Smith Endowed Professor & Director, Dept. of Health & Kinesiology Texas A&M University	"The Short and Winding Trail: Is Voluntary Activity Really Voluntary?"
09/21/2011	Hazel Szeto	Dept. Pharmacology Cornell University	Novel Therapies Targeting the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain
09/28/2011	Thomas Clemens	Professor, Director Center for Musculo- skeletal Research The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	"The Skeleton as a Regulator of Glucose Metabolism"
10/12/2011	James Tidball	Professor Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA	Mechanisms of Muscle Injury, Repair and Regenration
10/21/2011	Dustin Armstrong	Vice President 4s3 Bioscience	"Target & Deliver: Novel Biotherapeutics for Mutational Muscular Diseases – A Startup Perspective"
05/04/2011	Mark Chapleau	Professor of Physiology University of Iowa	Novel Molecular Determinants of Autonomic Regulation: Implications in Hypertension, Cardiomyopathy and Muscular Dystrophy
4/12/11	Norbert Perrimon	HHMI Investigator Dept. Genetics Harvard Medical School	Proteostasis in muscle during aging
03/30/2011	Peter Vanderklish	Associate Professor of Neurobiology Scripps Research Institute	Regulation of microRNA biogenesis by a stress-responsive mRNA-binding protein
12/1/2010	Mike Regnier	Department of Bioengineering University of Washington	Myofilament targeted approaches to improve cardiac muscle contraction
7/29/2011	Tim Osborne	University of Birmingham, UK	Ultrasound movies of muscle: tracking dynamic movements with a novel planar tracking technology
08/18/2011	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
03/24/2011	Amee Sietz	Visiting Scholar Shoulder Research Group Harvard Shoulder Service Massachusetts General Hosp.	Muscular recruitment during shoulder exercises
05/26/2011	Tom Irving	Illinois Institute of Technology
07/07/2011	David Glass	Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

11/10/2010	Walter Herzog	Kinesiology University of Calgary	Mechanisms of muscle contraction: the three myofilament story
11/8/2010	Peter Bram 't Hoen	University of Leiden, The Netherlands	Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of gene expression during myogenesis evaluated by next generation sequencing
08/26/2010	Bert Tanner	Vermont Molecular Motors Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics University of Vermont	Computational modeling of myofilaments and muscle contraction
04/07/10	Jim Spudich	Department of Biochemistry Stanford University	Nature's exquisite nanomachines: The myosin family of molecular motors
03/10/10	Gabrielle Kardon	Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah	Development of the vertebrate musculature: the role of Tcf4 and connective tissue fibroblasts
03/03/10	Silvia Blemker	University of Viriginia	Skeletal muscle structure and function explored through computational modeling
02/15/10	Martin Lakie	University of Birmingham United Kingdom	The role of resonance in human posture and movement
02/03/10	Bradley Keller	School of Medicine University of Louisville	Insights from embryos into the causes and treatments for congenital heart disease
01//27/10	Bruce Damon	Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science	In vivo structure-function relationships of skeletal muscle investigated using MRI
1/8/10	Edgar Arriaga	Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota	Unraveling biological complexity: Microanalysis of tissues, cells, and organelles
11/18/09	Andrew Judge	Applied Physiology and Kinesiology University of Florida	Heat shock proteins and muscle atrophy
10/28/09	Eric Hoffman	Center for Genetic Medicine Research Children's National Medical Center	Do projects build Centers, or do Centers build projects?
10/28/09	Tim Hewett	Human Performance Laboratory Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Shifting paradigms in musculoskeletal care - Driving applications in the Sports Medicine Clinic from the Biodynamics Laboratory
10/21/09	Andrew Brack	Harvard Medical School	Self renewal of muscle stem cells during regeneration
05/21/09	Kathy Myburgh	Department of Physiological Sciences University of Stellenbosch South Africa	Muscle Biology in South Africa
05/20/09	Naomi Brooks	Department of Physiological Sciences University of Stellenbosch South Africa	Myostatin and SMADs in hibernating squirrel muscle
05/08/09	Henk Granzier	Departments of Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Arizona	The Elastic Protein Titin - A Molecular Giant at the Crossroad of Signaling and Muscle Mechanics
04/15/09	Elena Volpi	Divisions of Genetics, Neuroscience and Cell Biology University of Texas Medical Branch	Insulin Resistance and Muscle Loss with Aging
04/02/09	Thomas F. Lang	University of California, San Francisco	Hip Fracture - A Musculoskeletal Condition
03/18/09	Donald Bers, Ph.D.	University of California, Davis	CaMKII in Cardiac Myocytes: Roles in Arrhythmogenesis and Transcriptional Regulation
03/11/09	Håkan Westerblad, Ph.D.	Karolinska Institutet, Sweden	Reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, friends or foes? Studies in skeletal and cardiac muscle
02/19/09	Blake Rasmussen	UTMB Galveston	Nutritional and Contractile Regulation of Human Skeletal Muscle Protein Synthesis
02/25/09	Pieter de Tombe, Ph.D.	Professor and Chairman Department of Physiology Loyola University, Chicago	Sarcomere dynamics in health and disease
1/21/09	Christopher L. Mendias, Ph.D.	University of Michigan	Preventing skeletal muscle fibrosis and atrophy by the therapeutic inhibition of myostatin
01/07/2009	Dana Gaddy, Ph.D.	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	Skeletal Adaptation to Aging, Disuse and Reloading
12/10/2008	Rick Moss	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Myosin Binding Protein C: a critical modulator of contraction kinetics in myocardium
10/08/2008	Kevin Campbell	University of Iowa	Maintenance of Muscle Cell Membrane Integrity and the Pathogenesis of Muscular Dystrophy
05/16/2008	Brian Tseng	Harvard Medical School	Metabolic Adaptations in Dystrophin-Deficiency: Clues for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
05/13/2008	Dilson Rassier	McGill University	Sarcomere Stability and Myofibrillar Protein Interactions in Contracting Muscle
02/20/2008	Todd Trappe	Ball State University	Influence of Exercise and Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors on the Adaptive Response of Skeletal Muscle and Tendon in Humans
02/13/2008	James Ervasti	University of Minnesota	Dystrophin, Actin and Human Disease
11/28/2007	Jim Fluckey	Texas A&M University	Regulation of Muscle Protein Synthesis: Effects of Aging, Microgravity, and Exercise
11/14/2007	Osvaldo Delbono	Wake Forest University	Role of Triadic Protein Expression in Aging Skeletal Muscle
09/27/2007	Laurie Goodyear	Harvard Medical Center	Skeletal Muscle Metabolism: Novel Mediators of Contraction and Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Transport
07/27/2007	Lars Larsson	Uppsala University	Regulation of Human Muscle Contraction at the Muscle Cell and Motor Protein Levels in Health and Disease
05/16/2007	Wendy Kohrt	University of Colorado, Denver	Interactions of Exercise and Hormone Replacement Therapy on Musculoskeletal Adaptation in Women

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