"Celebrating 50 Years of Muscle, Motors, and the Cytoskeleton" - register now for the PMI Annual Symposium on 10/16/2023. (Deadline: Oct. 9, 2023)

Penn Medicine News: Study Unravels the Mysteries of Actin Filament Polarity. An electron microscopy study revealed key details of actin filaments, which are essential structural elements of cells and muscles.

The Dominguez Lab solves the mystery of polarity at actin filament ends! See Science article here: Carman PJ, Barrie KR, Rebowski G, Dominguez R. Science. 2023 May 25:eadg6812. doi: 10.1126/science.adg6812. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37228182

Please save the date for our 2023 PMI Annual Symposium: "Celebrating 50 Years of Muscle, Motors, and Cytoskeleton Research at the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute" on Monday, October 16, 2023 @ the University of Pennsylvania, Gaulton Auditorium (BRB II/III).

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gregory Bowman! Dr. Bowman was recently appointed as Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor. The pioneer of biophysics and data science has joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Congratulations to Dr. Teji Khurana for being selected for the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. This prestigious award is given annually in recognition of commitment to teaching at Penn. The selection committee chose Dr. Khurana from a highly competitive nomination pool based on his peers' and students' letters written on his behalf. Please join us in applauding Teji on this distinguished award!

A $25 million gift from an anonymous donor to Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will establish the Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD), accelerating collaborative research in genetic therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders. This gift will bolster the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists at Penn and CHOP, led by director Benjamin Prosser, PhD, and co-directors Beverly Davidson, PhD, and Ingo Helbig, MD. Dr. Prosser is an associate professor of Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, who adjusted the focus of his research career when his own daughter, Lucy, was diagnosed shortly after birth in 2018 with a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Locke, former PMI T32 trainee, for receiving a Career Development Award (CDA-1) from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Please see our list of speakers for our Spring 2023 dates.

We look forward to celebrating the winter season with you at our cozy holiday gathering on Dec. 9th! (Festive/"Ugly" Holiday Sweaters encouraged.) Please contact PMI Coordinator, Linda Pang, if you need location information.