CURRENT EVENTS

PMI Retreat & Symposium
Force Sensing: Mechanobiology from Molecules to Tissues
October 28, 2013
Register HERE

Cell Motility Journal Club
Meeting Review
August 7, 2013
702 conference room
Clinical Research Building 12-1pm

PMI Muscle Club
Meredith Wilson
September 10, 2013
1-2pm, 702 CRB

NEWS

Congratulations to Dr. Allison Zajac on receiving her Ph.D. under Dr. Erika Holzbaur, Ph.D. and Dr. Michael Ostap, Ph.D., Pennsylvania Muscle Institute

Dr. Michael Ostap is the featured Biophysical Journal Editor.  Scroll down to see interview. HERE

Validation of multicenter protocol examining imaging of DMD patients. HERE

Dr. Dominguez's Lab shows how Rickettsia hijacks the actin cytoskeleton. HERE

PMI Labs show how molecular motors move growth factors in living cells. HERE

Dr. Grishchuk measures the force of microtubule depolymerization. HERE

See Dr. Discher's Science article on nanoparticle delivery. HERE

See the recent Penn News article highlighting recent work from Dr. Yale E. Goldman’s Lab here. HERE

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.
Click here for Symposium schedule.

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.