Welcome to The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute

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(Please note varying room designations.)

September '10
14	BRB 251 1:00 - 2:00	Organ system-specific functional deterioration in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: novel insights from a canine model	Andy Mead

October '10
19	BRB 253 1:00 - 2:00	Mechanical and Kinetic Tuning of Myosin - One Molecule at a Time	Michael Greenberg

November '10
16	BRB 253 1:00 - 2:00	Ojima K, Kawabata Y, Nakao H, etal. Dynamic distribution of muscle-specific calpain in mice has a key role in physical-stress adaptation and is impaired in muscular dystrophy. J Clin Invest. 2010, 120(8):2672-2683.	Alock Malik

December '10
7	BRB 253 1:00 - 2:00	Debold EP, Saber W, Cheema Y, Bookwalter CS, Trybus KM, Warshaw DM, Vanburen P. Human actin mutations associated with hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies demonstrate distinct thin filament regulatory properties in vitro. J. Mol Cell Cardiol. 48(2):286-92. Feb. 2010	Michael Greenberg

January '11
18	BRB 251 1:00 - 2:00	Sacco A, Mourkioti F, Tran R, Choi J, Llewellyn M, Kraft P, Shkreli M, Delp S, Pomerantz JH, Artandi SE, Blau HM. Short Telomeres and Stem Cell Exhaustion Model Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in mdx/mTR Mice. Cell. 2010 Dec 23;143(7):1059-71. Epub 2010 Dec 9.	Emidio Pistilli

February '11
15	BRB 251 1:00 - 2:00	Novel Approaches to Utrophin Upregulation as a Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy	Catherine Moorwood

March '11
15	BRB 251 1:00 - 2:00	Miyazaki D, Nakamura A, Fukushima K, Yoshida K, Takeda S, Ikeda SI. Matrix metalloproteinase-2 ablation in dystrophin-deficient mdx muscles reduces angiogenesis resulting in impaired growth of regenerated muscle fibers. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:21320869[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]	Becky Brisson

April '11
19	BRB 251 1:00 - 2:00	An Evo-Devo Perspective on Muscle Origins	Ranjith Krishnankutty, Alock Malik, Andy Meade

May '11
17	BRB 253 1:00 - 2:00	Loss of Inotropy With Preserved Chronotropy in the Intact Dystrophin Null Canine Heart: Possible Mechanisms.	Andy Mead

June '11
14	BRB 253 1:00 - 2:00	Matrix Elasticity directs Stem Cell Lineage" will be the title of the talk.	Tathagata Chaudhuri

Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania
Director: E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D.
700A Clinical Research Building

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6085

Phone: (215) 573-9758

Fax: (215) 898-2653