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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…
Dr. Ru Gunawardane joins CTMR External Advisory Board
We are excited to announce that Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane, Ph.D. is joining CTMR as a member of our External Advisory Board. Ru was recently named Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science in 2020 after spending five years at Amgen, where she worked on assay development for multiple drug targets spanning oncology, inflammation,…
Applications open for CTMR Mini Pilot Grants!
Applications are now open for the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) Mini Pilot Grants! Mini Pilot Grants provide $5,000-$10,000 in direct support for pilot studies to new users of CTMR core services who need a limited, specified set of data from one of the cores. Examples of the use of this grant mechanism…
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…
Registration Open for ISHR-JMCC Webinars (4/26 & 4/28)
Registration is now open for the International Society for Heart Research-Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Webinars coming up in April! Register now using the links below. Please note time zones when registering: webinar times vary to capture audiences in different regions. Can’t join the webinar but still want to watch? All presentations will be…