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April 22, 2024
Appointment of Michael Ostap, PhD, as interim Senior Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer for the Perelman School of Medicine
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Michael Ostap as interim Senior Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer for the Perelman School of Medicine!
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April 19, 2024
Congratulations to Adam Fenton (Holzbaur and Jongens Labs) for receiving the 2024 Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation.
Congratulations to Adam Fenton (Holzbaur and Jongens Labs) for receiving the 2024 Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation.
The Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation was established in 1995 in honor of the founding Director of BGS, Saul Winegrad, MD, Emeritus Professor of Physiology. The award was created to recognize a dissertation of outstanding quality which makes a significant contribution to biomedical science.
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January 5, 2024
Spring 2024 Seminar Series Dates
Spring 2024 Physiology/PMI Seminar Series Dates
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November 20, 2023
December 8: PMI Holiday Social 2023
Save the date for our annual PMI Holiday Social!
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October 4, 2023
Fall 2023 Physiology PMI Seminar Series Dates
Please see our list of speakers for our Fall 2023 dates.
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September 20, 2023
Register by 10/9! Speakers and talk titles announced - PMI Annual Retreat and Symposium.
Register by 10/9! Speakers and talk titles announced - PMI Annual Retreat and Symposium.
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August 22, 2023
Registration open! PMI Annual Symposium - Mon. October 16, 2023
"Celebrating 50 Years of Muscle, Motors, and the Cytoskeleton" - register now for the PMI Annual Symposium on 10/16/2023. (Deadline: Oct. 9, 2023)
https://www.med.upenn.edu/pmi/events/pmi-annual-symposium-2023
June 8, 2023
Penn Medicine News: "Study Unravels the Mysteries of Actin Filament Polarity"
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.
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May 25, 2023
The Dominguez Lab solves the mystery of polarity at actin filament ends!
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
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April 27, 2023
Save the date: Mon. 10/16/23 - PMI Annual Symposium 2023: "Celebrating 50 Years of Muscle, Motors, and Cytoskeleton Research at the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute"
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).
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