The MDCenter Seminar Series engages faculty and students from all areas of muscle research. Every second and forth Friday’s of the month, the MDCenter hosts seminar series promoting collaboration amongst researchers. The Muscular Dystrophy Center (MDCenter) Distinguished Speakers are nationally and internationally recognized scholars sharing their experiences and advancements in research in areas of neuromuscular diseases. In addition, the NIH Training Program in Muscle Research and the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center co-jointly sponsor the Annual Muscle Center Symposium featuring a distinguished guest speaker and poster sessions.
Save the date for demonstrations of muscle structure and function, and see how we are combating muscular dystrophy. The MDCenter Open House and Lab Tour will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 9:00am-12:00pm in Nils Hasselmo Hall.
Refreshments will be provided
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MD CENTER SEMINAR SERIES- 2008 |
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| Friday, January 11th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Doris Taylor , University of Minnesota "Cell Therapy for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease " |
| Friday, January 25th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Atsushi Asakura, University of Minnesota "Muscle regeneration by muscle stem cells and vasculatures: Application for stem cell transplantation to muscular dystrophy" |
| Friday, February 8th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Dawn Lowe, University of Minnesota "Striving to understand why prednisone, stretching, and inactivity are standard treatments for DMD using dystrphic mouse models" |
| Friday, February 22nd 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar Series |
Andy Berglund, University of Oregon "Molecular mechanisms of myotonic dystrophy and a small molecule approach to this disease" |
| Friday, March 14th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar Series |
Mani Mahadevan, University of Virginia"New insights from a reversible mouse model of RNA toxicity in myotonic dystrophy" ***CANCELLED*** |
| Friday, March 28th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar Series |
No Seminar
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| Friday, April 11th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Fred Robinson, University of California San Diego "Myotubularin Phosphoinositide 3-Phosphatases: Regulators Of Membrane Traffic With Essential Functions In The Peripheral Nerve " |
| Saturday, April 19th 9:00am Open House and Lab Tour***Hasselmo Hall*** |
Open House and Lab Tour, University of Minnesota 9-10am: Lab Tours 10-11am: Presentations 11-12: Lab Tours |
| Friday, April 25th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Dan Garry , University of Minnesota "Regulatory mechanisms of muscle stem cells" |
| Friday, May 9th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
David Thomas, University of Minnesota "Spectroscopic Probes of Muscle Structural Dynamics" |
| Friday, May 30th TBD, Hasselmo Hall Atrium, Poster session and lunch TBD, Hasselmo Hall 2-101, Seminar 12th Annual Muscle Center Symposium |
Alan Beggs "TBA" |
| Friday, June 13th 8:30am, ***Mayo C456 MDCenter Seminar |
John Day and Stephanie Valberg, University of Minnesota "histopathology demonstrations" |
| Friday, June 27th 8:30am, PWB, 12-115 MDCenter Seminar |
Linda McLoon , University of Minnesota "Sparing of the Extraocular Muscles in DMD: A Myogenic Precursor Cell Hypothesis" |
| July and August |
No Seminar |
| Refreshments will be provided | |