SDMRC Meetings & Seminars

SDMRC - Meetings & Seminars



SDMRC Meeting Calendar


The San Diego Muscle Research Center supports and promotes the following meetings:

SDMRC meetings


SDMRC supported external meetings

We will also add seminars and conferences on our calendar that may be of interest to SDMRC scientists.

Basic Cardiology - Joint Lab Meetings

The weekly "Joint Lab Meetings" in the Department of Cardiology are intended for junior scientists (graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty) with an interest in cardiovascular research and muscle biology. Postdocs and junior faculty will have ~50 minutes to showcase their projects, while graduate and undergraduate students can have shorter ~25 minute talks to present their data.
The seminars are typically attended by faculty, postdocs and graduate students from the Division and other Departments (e.g. Bioengineering), and will allow presenters to get feedback from peers and senior faculty.

The seminars have a hybrid approach that enables participants to join either in person or via Zoom.
  • Dates and Time: Starting May 16, 2022, every Monday at 9am (see online calendar for exceptions)
  • Place: UCSD School of Medicine campus, BRF2 building, meeting room 2A03
  • Online via Zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95577249000
    Meeting ID: 955 7724 9000


    • Please contact Dr. Yoshitake Cho or Dr. Stephan Lange for further details.
    The online calendar also shows past and upcoming "Joint Lab Meetings".


CSC Seminar Series

 The Cardiovascular Science Conference (CSC) seminar series is organized by faculty of the Department of Cardiology at UC San Diego. The seminar series features local, national and international speakers, who present their latest data every Friday at 11:30am (PDT) via Zoom.
Details can be found on the UC San Diego Cardiology website.
Contact Cindy Treich for more information.


The online calendar shows past and upcoming CSC seminars.



Southern California RheumTalk Seminar Series

On Wednesdays from 12-1 pm, the Microenvironment in Arthritis Resource Center sponsors a seminar in collaboration with UC Los Angeles and Cedars Sinai that includes both internal and external speakers presenting on their recent findings and ground breaking developments in the fields of rheumatology and joint pathology.
Speakers come from a variety of backgrounds, including local academia, non-profit institutes, and biotech companies. Recipients of the MARC Pilot Project Grants are also invited to speak. The seminar is held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month via zoom webinar only and attendance is free. Further details, an online calendar and a Zoom link can be found here.

SDMRC Seminar Series

 The goal of the SDMRC seminar series is to improve the communication among local scientists, and promote excitement about the research going on in the labs of the center investigators. This will include local speakers drawn from the San Diego area, as well as national/international speakers. This seminar series is typically held in Building 12 of the Sanford Burnham Medical Research institute. Two researchers will give updates on their research projects in 20 minute long presentations. Ample time for questions and discussions will allow for critical feedback on the research projects.
Dr. Alessandra Sacco is organizing the SDMRC seminar series.

The online calendar shows past and upcoming seminars.


SDMRC Keynote Speaker Seminars

The SDMRC Keynote Speakers Seminars occasionally invites nationally and internationally renown muscle researchers to San Diego to present their cutting edge research to the local research community. Past speakers include James Ervasti, Jan Fridén, Fabio Rossi, Eric Hoffman or Thomas Rando.
Past and upcoming SDMRC Keynote Seminars can be found in the online calendar.

Ervasti

James Ervasti, PhD
Rossi

Fabio Rossi, MD PhD
Rando

Thomas Rando, MD PhD
David Glass

Picture of Dr. David Glass' seminar: Mechanisms mediating skeletal muscle mass, function and aging.

Previous SDMRC Keynote Speakers

  1. Monday, Nov. 14, 2012, 8:30am, Thomas A. Rando, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Sanford University School of Medicine), “The Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Quiescene and Activation” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  2. Monday, February 13, 2012, 8:30am, Eric P. Hoffman, Ph.D. (Chairman, Director, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center), “Molecular Rehab for Muscle: Dissociative Steroids and Repaired Genes for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  3. Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:00pm, Fabio Rossi, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, The Biomedical Research Center) “Mesenchymal Progenitors as Key Determinants of the Balance Between Repair and Regeneration” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  4. Monday, July 9, 2012, 8:30am, Dr. Jan Fridén, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Hand Surgery, Salgrenska University Hospital) “Muscles are motors—Using surgery to restore hand function” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  5. Monday, September 24, 2012, 12:00pm, James M. Ervasti, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics University of Minnesota, “From muscle to the inner ear: cytoplasmic actins in cellular function and disease” at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) 3215 Merryfield Row Room CB107, San Diego, CA 92121
  6. Thursday, January 17, 2013, 8:30am, Lars Peterson – Sanofi Traveling Fellowship, at University Research Center 3525 John Hopkins Court, Room 158, La Jolla, CA Carl Haasper, MD, PhD, MSc, Attending Surgeon & Chief, Sports Medicine, ENDO Clinic, Hamburg, Germany “Osteochondral Tissue Engineering – experimentaland clinical approaches Haris Vasiliadis, MD, PhD, Lecture in Orthopedics, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, “First generation Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation for full thickness cartilage lesions of the knee: Long term evaluation and prognostic factors” Giuseppe Filardo, MD, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy, “PRP Injections for the Treatment of Cartilage Degenerative Lesions: preliminary results of a randomized trial”
  7. Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 4:00pm, H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D.
, William Maul Measey Professor and Chairman Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, “Nonsense Suppression as a Strategy to Treat a Subset of Genetic Disorders” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  8. Friday, April 26, 2013, Vittorio Sartorelli, MD, Chief, Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, “Chromatin Interactors Shape the Muscle Epigenome” ” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  9. Monday, September 30, 2013, 12:00pm, Nigel Laing, Ph.D., Head of Neuromuscular Disease and Winthrop Research Professor Center for Medical Research University of Western Australia, “Seeing muscle biology through the window of genetic disease” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  10. Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 12:00pm, Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni, Ph.D., Professor, Biological Structure, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, “Extraocular muscle satellite cells are high performance myo-engines: a promising avenue for therapy of dystrophin deficiency?” at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Building 12 Auditorium, 10905 Road to the Cure, San Diego, CA
  11. Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 11:00am, Michael Rudnicki, PhD, FRSC, Professor, Senior Scientist and Director Regenerative Medicine and the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, “Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell function”
  12. Thursday, February 13, 2014, 1:00pm, Julien Ochala, Ph.D., Lecturer in Physiology, The Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, King’s College London, UK, “Actinopathies: from genetics to treatment” at University Research Center 3525 John Hopkins Court, Room 158, La Jolla, CA
  13. Friday, April 25, 2014, Shoichiro Ono, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology Emory University, Atlanta, “Regulation of actin filament dynamics and organization in C. elegans striated muscle” at University Research Center 3525 John Hopkins Court, Room 158, La Jolla, CA
  14. Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Jeffrey Dilworth: "Epigenetic regulation of satellite cell-mediated muscle regeneration"
  15. Friday, June 3, 2016, Marco Crescenzi: "Cell cycle control in the skeletal muscle: reverting terminal differentiation in vitro and making new muscle in vivo"
  16. Monday, June 27, 2016, Pura Munoz-Canoves: "Understanding muscle stem cell regenerative decline with aging"
  17. Wednesday, April 26, 2017, David Glass, Ph.D., Novartis, “Mechanisms mediating skeletal muscle mass, function and aging”





SDMRC promoted external meetings

Alternative Muscle Club Meeting

The Alternative Muscle Club meeting is an annual one-day conference aimed at scientists early in their research careers. It provides an opportunity for young investigators in the academic, industry and medical sectors to present their work in a more relaxed environment. Its main goal is to build connections in the research community, and help learn about projects from other research laboratories and organizations.


Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we had to cancel the 2020 and 2021 AMC meeting.


Meeting Date: the next meeting date will be announced in late 2022

More information on the upcoming and past meetings and pictures can be found on the meeting homepage.
AMC San Diego 2016