| CURRENT EVENTS 2013 PMI Retreat and Symposium Cytoskeletal Regulation PMI Seminar Cell Motility Journal Club PMI Muscle Club
NEWS Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Lazarus for receiving his Ph.D. under Erika Holzbaur, Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute! We note with deep regret the passing of Prof. Annemarie Weber, a treasured and generous colleague and a pioneer in the field of muscle research. Click here to read about Dr. Weber’s scientific contributions. Congratulations to Betsy Buechler for receiving a pre-doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. Thanks to all who participated in the 2012 PMI/NBIC Symposium. Click here for Symposium schedule. Congratulations to Tali Dadosh and Anatoly Zaytsev for receiving poster presentation awards at the PMI/NBIC Symposium. Congratulations to Dr. Jennine Dawicki McKenna for receiving her Ph.D. under E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute! Congratulations to Dr. Dennis Discher for being named the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Details here. Thanks to all who participated in the 2011 PMI/Wellstone Mini Symposium. Congratulations to Dr. Clara Franzini-Armstrong for her election to the Accademia dei Lincei, which is the premier Italian academy of science, founded in 1603. Dr. Tejvir Khurana identifies an important genetic link to muscle endurance. See Penn press release here, comment in Science here, and the complete paper here. See article in The Scientist featuring work from the Goldman and Holzbaur Labs, here. Congratulations to Dr. Roman Gorelik for receiving his Ph.D. under Dr. Tatyana Svitkina, Department of Biology! Congratulations to Dr. John Lewis for receiving his Ph.D. under Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D. and E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute! See highlights of Dr. Erfei Bi’s exciting new study on the role of myosin in cell division here, and see the complete paper here. Click here to see the Dec. 20 New Yorker Article featuring Dr. H. Lee Sweeney’s work with Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy. Congratulations to Dr. Harry (Trey) W. Schroeder, III for receiving his Ph.D. under Erika Holzbaur, Ph.D. and Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute! NIH Awards $8 Million to Penn Medicine’s Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center. See Penn press release. See Dr. Anna Kashina’s recent paper on Differential Arginylation of Actin in Science here.
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