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The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Retreat and Symposium

"Cytoskeletal Regulation"

February 1, 2013

Registration HERE
Download Symposium Flyer HERE
Location BRBII/III Auditorium
421 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Directions can be found HERE

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Poster Setup
9:00 – 9:05 Michael Ostap, Ph.D.
Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Insitute
Welcome and Introduction
9:05 – 10:00 Kristen Verhey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Michigan

10:00 – 10:30 Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
University of Pennsylvania
10:30 – 10:45 Short Talk Selected from Abstracts
10:45 – 11:05 Coffee Break / Posters
11:05 – 11:20 Short Talk Selected from Abstracts
11:20 – 12:15 James R. Sellers, Ph.D.
Chief, Section of Molecular and Cellular Motility
National Institutes of Health
12:15 – 1:45 Lunch and Poster Session
1:45 – 2:15 H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D.
William Maul Measey Professor and Chairman of Physiology
University of Pennsylvania
2:15 – 2:30 Short Talk Selected from Abstracts
2:30 – 3:00 Tatyana Svitkina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
3:00 – 3:20 Coffee Break / Posters
3:20 – 4:15 Thomas D. Pollard, M.D.
Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology 
Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Yale University
4:15 – 5:15 Annemarie Weber: Scientist, Teacher, and Mentor

Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of Pennsylvania

Avril Somlyo, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
University of Virginia

Hugh E. Huxley, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
Brandeis University

Mitchell Lewis, Ph.D.
John Morgan Professor of Biomedical Research and Education
University of Pennsylvania

John M. Murray, M.D.
Emeritus Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Velia Fowler, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology
Scripps Institute                     
5:15 – 6:00 Reception and Poster Session
   
 

 

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Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Director: E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D.

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