Congratulations to Alec Smith!

CTMR Investigator Alec Smith, PhD, recently had an R21 funded through the NIAMS that will be looking at developing human stem cell-based models of the muscle spindle for studying proprioceptive function in skeletal muscle. Additionally, he received an Award from the Weill Neurohub to develop models of the neuromuscular junction for studying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

2023 CTMR Symposium: Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission is now open for the 4th annual UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) symposium that will be held on Monday, December 4th, 2023. To be considered for a poster presentation, abstracts must be submitted by November 15, 2023. Undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, research scientists, etc. involved in muscle research, or any related fields are encouraged to submit an abstract….

Registration is now open for our 4th annual 2023 CTMR Symposium

Registration is now open for our 4th annual UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) symposium.  This year the symposium will be an all-day event on Monday, December 4th, 2023.  We are planning to have an in-person symposium but will also have a Zoom-in option. A preliminary schedule is included below for your reference. Please REGISTER HERE by completing the Google Form. When registering…

New CTMR Program Manager

The CTMR’s Program Manager, Katie Dickinson, is transitioning to support other programs at UW. We will miss Katie in the CTMR. A big thank you to her for skillfully supporting the CTMR over the past year. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors! We are excited to introduce our new Program Manager…

CTMR represents at the 50th European Muscle Conference Florence 2023

Dr. Mike Regnier is an invited speaker at the 50th European Muscle Conference (EMC) coming up in September 2023. The EMC will be in held in Florence, Italy. Dr. Regnier will be the “DISEASE MODELS” session chair and his talk title will be: “Molecular mechanisms of contractile abnormalities for the MYH7 variant G256E”. Graduate student,…

4th Annual CTMR Symposium December 4th 2023!

Save the date for our 4th annual UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) symposium.  This year the symposium will be an all-day event on Monday, December 4th, 2023 in Seattle, WA at Orin Smith Auditorium.   We are planning to have an in-person symposium but will also have a Zoom-in option.   Our Keynote speakers this year will be: Douglas Millay, PhD, is a faculty member…

Congratulations to CTMR Team Core D for their JGP May cover showing “A detailed computational model of striated muscle elucidates how mutations and drugs may alter twitch timing. The spatially explicit model simulates myosin motors connected within a compliant, contractile lattice, complete with thin filament regulation and varying mutation penetrance. The model yields data used…

CTMR/BioCAT collaboration leads to new PNAS paper “Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force“ The UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) working with the Regnier Lab and the BioCAT x-ray beamline at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Lab, explore the potential of sarcomere-targeted small molecules as treatments…