Symposium Location: Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium and Commons*, Smilow Center for Translational Research, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard. * Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium is located at the Northwest corner of the 1st floor (up the escalator from the ground floor).
9:00am – 9:15am: Welcome and Introduction - E. Michael Ostap, Ph.D., Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, Professor of Physiology
Andrew Somlyo Honorary Lectures
9:15am – 10:00am: Mary Baylies, Ph.D., Sloan Kettering Institute - “Regulation of the size, number, and function of sarcomeres during drosophia muscle growth”
10:00am – 10:30am: PMI Trainees, University of Pennsylvania, Keita Uchida (Prosser Lab) - “Dynamics of Cardiomyocyte Translation” & Nuoying Ma (Mourkioti Lab) - “Piezo1 is a key mechanosensor for muscle stem cell morphological state transition and function”
10:30am – 11:00am: Coffee Break, Posters
11:00am – 11:45am: William Roman, Ph.D., Stanford University - “Myofiber self-repair after exercise”
11:45am – 12:30pm: Izhak Kehat, M.D., Ph.D., Technion Institute - “Localized translation in cardiomyocytes”
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch, Posters
Saul Winegrad Honorary Lectures
1:30pm – 1:45pm: Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D. - Remembering Prof. Saul Winegrad
1:45pm – 2:30pm: Leslie Leinwand Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder - “Sarcomere dynamics vary between muscle and in health and disease”
2:30pm – 3:15pm: The Sanger Lab, Upstate Medical University - “Assembly and Dynamics of sarcomeric proteins in myofibris”
3:15pm – 3:45pm: Coffee Break, Posters
3:45pm – 4:00pm: PMI Trainee, University of Pennsylvania, Quentin McAfee (Arany Lab) - “Truncated titin in human dilated cardiomyopathy”
4:00pm – 4:45pm: Dylan Burnette, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University - “How does a heart grow? A cell biologist wants to know”
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