Agenda: Understanding Myonuclear Accretion Mechanisms

Agenda

Conference Organizers:

Doug Millay, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Anita Kneppers, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut NeuroMyoGène, Lyon, France

Please note that this tentative schedule is subject to change. 30-minute presentations include 5 minutes of Q & A. 15-minute presentations include 3 minutes of Q & A.

Each speaker will present their talk live, and the presentations' recordings will be accessible to registrants after the sessions, contingent upon speakers who have granted permission.

Day 1

Time (Eastern)	Event
9:00 am—9:10 am	FASEB and Organizer Welcome
9:10 am –9:40 am	Shaping Skeletal Muscle Fibres During Early Development Tim Saunders, PhD, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
9:40 am—10:10 am	Myoblast and Fibroblast Incorporation to Shape Limb Muscle During Development Delphine Duprez, PhD, Institut de Biologie Paris, France
10:10 am—10:25 am	p38 Controls the Transition from Myoblast Differentiation to Fusion Adi Hazak, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
10:25 am—10:40 am	Real-Time Assay Exposes Myoblast-to-Myofiber Fusion Dynamics Sharon Havusha-Laufer, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
10:40 am—10:50 am	Break
10:50 am—11:20 am	Spatial Regulation of Gene Expression in Myofibers Eric Wang, PhD, Myology Institute of Florida, Gainesville, FL
11:20 am—11:50 am	Chasing Myonuclei Turnover Minchul Kim, PhD, Institut de Génétique et de Biology Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France
11:50 am—12:05 pm	Satellite Cell Proliferation is Not Obligatory for Myofiber Fusion During Muscle Hypertrophy John McCarthy, PhD, Center for Muscle Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
12:05 pm—12:20 pm	Murine Skeletal Muscle Nuclei Replicate DNA Agnieszka K. Borowik, PhD, Aging and Metabolism Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
12:20 pm—12:30 pm	Organizer Wrap-up

Day 2

Time (Eastern)	Event
8:00 am—8:10 am	Organizer Recap of Day 1 and Kickoff
8:10 am –8:40 am	Myofiber Repair After Local Damage William Roman, PhD, Monash University, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Clayton, Australia
8:40 am—9:10 am	Local Signaling Regulates DNA Content in Skeletal Muscle Nuclei Mary Baylies, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
9:10 am—9:40 am	The Arp2/3 Complexes: Hidden Role in Skeletal Muscle Postnatal Development and Homeostasis Silvia Di Francescantonio, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisbon, Portugal
9:40 am—9:50 am	Break
9:50 am—10:20 am	Cellular Senescence and Skeletal Muscle Aging Nathan K. LeBrasseur, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
10:20 am—10:50 am	Using Myonuclear Accretion to Generate Mouse Models of Mitochondrial Myopathy Prashant Mishra, MD, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
10:50 am—11:05 am	Characterizing the Role of Sarcalumenin in SR Membrane Remodeling Ilan Zemski, Dep. of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
11:05 am—11:20 am	Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Training Induces Myonuclear Accretion and Hypertrophy in Mice Without Overt Signs of Muscle Damage and Regeneration Julien Gondin, PhD, Institut NeuroMyoGene, PGNM, Lyon, France
11:20 am—11:30 am	Organizer Closing Remarks