Accelerating and expanding translational muscle research
The UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) is funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to provide a unifying organization for muscle research in the heart of Seattle’s biomedical research community. The goal of the Center is to facilitate new collaborations, recruit new investigators, bring clinicians and researchers together, and provide access to state-of-the-art approaches in multi-scale biomechanics, metabolism, and quantitative-computational analysis, to accelerate translational research efforts at the UW.
Upcoming Events:
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 17, 2024
Speaker: Kalen Robeson, PhD Student HAMM Lab & Davis Lab, University of Washington
Talk Title: The role of Loop 2 conformation in actomyosin complex formation and cardiomyopathy caused by the mutations E525K and V606M
Oct 31, 2024
Speaker: Weikang Ma, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Beamline Scientist at Biophysics Collaborative Team (BioCAT)
Talk Title: TBA
Nov 14, 2024
Speaker: Speaker: Cristina Risi, PhD, Instructor, Physiological Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Talk Title: Structural Dynamics in the Native Cardiac Thin Filament Revealed by cryo-EM
The International Sarcomere Society Seminar Series is hosted by Drs. Mike Regnier, Mike Geeves, and Bill Lehman.
Latest News
Reminder to Register & Submit your Abstract for the CTMR Symposium!
5th Annual CTMR Symposium WHEN: November 12, 2024, 9:00AM – 6:30PM PT WHERE: UW South Lake Union (SLU) campus (850…
Registration Open for the 2024 CTMR Symposium
We are thrilled to invite you to register for our 5th Annual CTMR Symposium! We hope you can join…
Muscular Dystrophy Seminar Tomorrow- 5/23
The Seattle Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Center is hosting a Distinguished Lecturer at the Breakfast Club seminar series…
Join us for a special event focusing on Myotonic Dystrophy!
This special event, jointly hosted by the Seattle Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Center (MDSRC) and the CTMR,…
Resource Cores
Mechanics & Devices Core
The Mechanics and Devices Core provides state-of-the-art measurements of muscle biomechanics at multiple levels of integration, and develops new assays for maturation and assessment of early stage muscle.
Metabolism Core
The Metabolism Core provides tools for in-depth measures and analysis of metabolomics, energetics, cell respiration and mitochondrial function.
Quantitative Analysis Core
The Quantitative Analysis Core provides computational and statistical tools for understanding disease, suggesting new
therapeutic targets, and understanding mechanisms.