Symposium:               Force Generation

 

Track:                         Muscle-Exercise

Saturday, 8:00 AM—10:00 AM, 32

Chaired:                        Jim Spudich

 

8:00 PM                       Myosin structure and function. Lee Sweeney. Univ. of Pennsylvania.

 

8:30 PM                       Tension sensing by molecular motors. Jim Spudich. Stanford Univ.

 

9:00 PM                       Structure of actin-tropomyosin-troponin complex and the mechanism of calcium regulation of muscle contractions. Yuchiro Maeda. Riken Harmina Inst.

 

9:30 PM                       Myosin mutations in the heart: genetic and phenotypic diversity. Joachim Schmitt. Univ. of Wurzburg.