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BioCAT offered its third MuscleX workshop entitled “Sarcomeric regulation mechanisms in health and disease” from May 18 -19 2023. This entirely virtual workshop had 200 registered attendees.

BioCAT offered its third MuscleX workshop entitled “Sarcomeric regulation mechanisms in health and disease” from May 18 -19 2023. This entirely virtual workshop had 200 registered attendees. The workshop started with an introductory presentation of the scientific missions supported at BioCAT followed by a series of 13 scientific presentations highlighting recent muscle studies using x-ray diffraction and/or other structural techniques. Topical areas that were covered were 1) Thick filament-based regulation, 2) New insights into thin filament regulation, 3) Titin and muscle regulation, 4) MyBPC and regulation of thick and thin filament, and 5) Translational studies on structural bases of muscle diseases. Speakers came from several US states, the UK, Italy and Germany. Of the 13 speakers, eight of them were at an early career stage. Speakers included Thomas Irving (BioCAT, APS, USA), Weikang Ma (BioCAT, APS, USA), Yanhong Wang (King’s College London, UK), Ilaria Morotti (U Florence, Italy) , Saffie Mohran (University of Washington, USA),Neil Kad (University of Kent, UK), Davide Tamborrini (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany), Anthony Hessel (University of Muenster, Germany), Caterina Squarci (U Florence, Italy), Maicon Landim-Vieira (Florida State University, USA), Samantha Harris (U Arizona Tucson, USA), Vivek Jani (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Farid Moussavi- Harami (University of Washington, USA).

Some of the lectures were recorded and are available on the BioCAT YouTube channel: