Organized in 1985, the goals of the muscle group are to: (a) plan
symposia and workshops dealing with various aspects of muscle contraction
that will attract investigators from various disciplines (biophysics,
chemistry, pharmacology) and (b) breakaway from the orthodox organ system
orientation.
Steering Committee
Announcement:
Suggestions for Symposia and Featured Topics are Needed for EB2011
During the 2010 EB
meeting, the Programming Advisory Committee of the Muscle Biology Group
will meet to select the one symposium and two featured topics that we
are responsible for programming for EB 2011. I would encourage you to
consider coordinating either a Symposium or Featured Topic for 2011.
The APS makes available $4,000 to finance each Symposium and $2,000 for
each Featured Topic. Please send your topic and potential speaker ideas
to me at
TMNosek@aol.com as soon as possible. I will be happy to work with
you to develop your ideas into a session.
Once you have decided on
a topic and have selected your speakers, the appropriate forms for
formal submission of a proposed session are found at:
Symposium:
http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/SymposiumForm.pdf
Featured Topic:
http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/FeaturedTopic.pdf
I
would like to remind you that The Muscle Biology Group is sponsoring two
Featured Topics and one Symposium at EB 2010 in Anaheim.
The
first Featured Topic is entitled, "PGC -1α in health, exercise, and
disease". It is being organized by Dr. David Hood of York University.
Before the abstract presentations, Dr. Hood will present, "Role of
PGC-1α in exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis: Effect of age".
This will be followed by Dr. Arend Bonen of the University of Guelph who
will talk on, "Role of PGD-1α in muscle lipid metabolism and insulin
resistance". Dr. Hood writes, "PGC-1α has become one of the most widely
studied proteins involved in energy metabolism and gene expression. It
is a transcriptional coactivator that interacts with multiple
transcription factors to regulate the expression of genes involved in
muscle fiber type determination, mitochondrial biogenesis in muscle and
heart, gluconeogenesis in liver and thermogenesis in brown fat. This
Featured Topic is designed to highlight the physiological role of this
very important protein."
The second Featured
Topic is entitled, "Hyperkalemic and hypokalemic periodic paralysis in
skeletal muscle: New Insights from new mouse models". It is organized
by Dr. Jean-Marc Renaud of the University of Ottawa. New mouse models
for these disorders will be introduced in talks presented by Dr. Steve
Cannon of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ("The
gating pore current from S4 mutations: A mechanism for paralysis in
hypokalemic periodic paralysis") and Dr. Larry Hayward of the University
of Massachusetts Medical School ("Mechanisms of hyperkalemic periodic
paralysis and implications for treatment.").
The Symposium is
entitled, “Redox control of skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise and
disuse”. The Symposium has been organized by Dr. Scott Powers of the
University of Florida and Dr. Michael Reid of the University of
Kentucky. In addition to presentations by Drs. Powers and Reid, talks
will be given by Dr. Dean Jones of Emory University and Dr. Thomas
Clanton of the University of Florida.
Thank you,
Thomas M. Nosek, Ph.D.
Chair, Muscle Biology Group
