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.

The PMI Annual Retreat & Symposium “Formation, Maintenance, & Repair of Skeletal & Cardiac Muscle” will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

Register here for the Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Annual Retreat and Symposium 2022 “Formation, Maintenance, and Repair of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle.”

Scientific Legend Prof. Clara Franzini Armstrong remembers her career and discusses the publishing of her EM archive.