Headshots of Katie Dickinson and Katie Mitzelfelt

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…

UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) 2022 symposium brings the muscle community together!

UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) 2022 symposium brings the muscle community together!

On October 24th, 2022 the CTMR held its annual symposium. Over 130 people registered and researchers from a variety of backgrounds shared their work during our first in-person symposium since the founding of the Center in 2019.   CTMR director, Dr, Michael Regnier welcomed scientists from near and far. Although most of the attendees were from…