6th Annual CTMR Symposium
WHEN: Friday, November 21, 2025, 9:00AM – 5:00PM PT
WHERE: UW South Lake Union (SLU) campus (850 Republican St., Seattle, WA, 98109), C Building, Orin Smith Auditorium
THEME: Modeling and Metabolism in Muscle Research
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: We are honored to welcome Daniel Beard, PhD, from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Beard’s research integrates computational modeling and metabolism, making him the perfect voice to lead this year’s theme. His talk is titled: The Vicious Cycle of Metabolic and Mechanical Dysfunction in Heart Failure
SPECIAL SESSION ON METABOLOMICS: Thanks to a generous collaboration with the UW Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), we’ll feature a dedicated session on metabolomics.
FEATURED CTMR INVESTIGATOR TALKS: You’ll hear from CTMR investigators, Princess Imoukhuede, PhD, of UW Bioengineering, and Michael Geeves, PhD, of the University of Kent.
AND MORE: In addition, you will hear from CTMR Pilot Awardees and poster presenters during the lightning talks and poster sessions. Don’t forget the networking lunch!
Abstract Submission:
Submitting an abstract for a poster presentation (and an optional lightning talk) is a great opportunity to learn about exciting new research and to make connections with potential collaborators.
To be considered for a poster presentation, abstracts must be submitted by October 31, 2025. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-docs, staff, and faculty involved in muscle research, or any related fields are encouraged to submit an abstract.
To submit an abstract please email the following information to Katie Mitzelfelt (kmitz@uw.edu):
- Include the email subject heading: “2025 CTMR Poster Abstract”
- A single PDF file containing title, authors, and abstract (250-word limit)
- Please indicate whether the presenting author is an undergraduate, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, staff, faculty, or other role.
- Indicate whether you are interested in giving a lightening talk at the symposium (3 min talk with 2 min for questions) in addition to your poster presentation.
Deadline for abstract submission: 5:00pm on Friday, October 31, 2025
Past Symposia
Sarcomere Society:
Online bi-weekly seminar series, Thursdays 8-9 am Pacific Time, covering current state-of-the-art research related to sarcomere structure and function.
To Subscribe to the Sarcomere Society email list and receive Zoom links to attend please click here.
Contact the Sarcomere Society Speaker Selection Committee – Drs Matt Childers & Joe Powers – to let us know about exciting new research you would like to present at an upcoming seminar (mcc7fb@uw.edu or powersjd@uw.edu).
Oct 9, 2025
Speaker: Rama Reddy Goluguri, PhD, Basic Life Research Scientist, Spudich/Ruppel Lab, Stanford University
Talk Title: Basic Life Research Scientist, Spudich/Ruppel Lab, Stanford University
Oct 23, 2025
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
Nov 6, 2025
Speaker: TBA
Talk Title: TBA
The International Sarcomere Society Seminar Series was founded by Drs. Mike Regnier, Mike Geeves, and Bill Lehman.
Breakfast Club Seminar Series
Weekly Thursdays from 9-10 am at the UW SLU campus & Zoom
Breakfast Club is a SLU seminar event hosted weekly by UW faculty members from various fields and departments including cardiology, pathology, metabolism, molecular and cellar biology, and other biomedical and genome science related disciplines. Each week an esteemed speaker, either local or invited Distinguished Lecturers from out of town, will come to give a 50-minute presentation plus 10-minutes for questions on topics in cardiovascular biology ranging from research to general health issues to scientific methodology.
Upcoming CTMR-Hosted Speakers in 2025-2026 Academic Year
This year, the CTMR is thrilled to be hosting the following distinguished lecturers at Breakfast Club:
- October 30, 2025: Samantha Harris, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Arizona
- November 20, 2025: Bradley Morgan, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research & Non-Clinical Development, Cytokinetics
- March 12, 2026: Pete Kekenes-Husky, PhD, Associate Professor, Cell & Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Past CTMR-Hosted Speakers (2024-2025 Academic Year)
Past CTMR-Hosted Speakers (2023-2024 Academic Year)
Relevant Links:
CTMR-Hosted Workshops & Trainings
Myofilament Meeting- Workshops hosted by the CTMR
The UW Center for Translational Muscle Research was proud to be a co-sponsor of the 2024 Myofilament Meeting [link] in Madison, WI. CTMR members Mike Regnier, Matt Childers, and Travis Tune presented research updates and led topical workshops on modeling myofilament diseases using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and computational methods.
Workshops | May 21, 2024:
iPSC workshop, organized by Mike Regner, Carter Ralphe, and Kareen Coulombe
Computational approaches in myofilament research, organized by Mike Regnier
This workshop will introduce new models and analytical tools at two scales – the actomyosin complex and the sarcomere. The goal is to demonstrate the usefulness of these models and tools, then have a discussion of what additional development of modeling approaches would be most useful to experimentalists.
Left to right: Anthony Asencio, Matt Childers, Travis Tune, Farid Moussavi-Harami, Mike Regnier, Kareen Coulombe, Kristi Kooiker, Sonette Steczina, Saffie Mohran, Kerry Kao
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