Emerging Science and Scientists in Muscle Biology- Mon through Thurs, Sept 14-17, 12:00-1:30 (EDT)
Dear Muscle Biology Community,
I am thrilled to announce our first-ever Muscle Biology Subgroup Science Event during the Emerging Science Week of the Biophysical Society. The event, "Emerging Science and Scientists in Muscle Biology", is a four-day data blitz to highlight Emerging Science and Scientists in Muscle Biology.
Sessions will be 1.5 hours on M-T-W-Th, Sept 14-17, 2026, from 12:00-1:30 PM (EDT) and each 1.5-hour session will feature 5 short talks from investigators (see Speakers below) working at the leading edge of their fields, covering new approaches, surprising findings, and open questions in muscle structure, function, and disease. Whether your focus is skeletal, cardiac, or smooth muscle, or you approach muscle biology from a biophysical, molecular, cellular, or physiological angle, these sessions will spotlight the next wave of discoveries and the researchers behind them!
To register for the event (all 4 days) use the following link:
Each registrant will then receive a personalized link through their email account that will allow access to all 4 days of the meeting. Note, if you do not already have one, you will need to create and login to a myBPS account (https://www.biophysics.org/ to register. Creating a myBPS account does NOT require BPS membership and all Subgroup Emerging Science events are free to everyone!
We hope to see you at this exciting event!
Sam Harris
Shanna Hamilton
Ken Campbell
Muscle Biology Subgroup Officers
Speakers include:
Monday
Jakub Tomek, Oxford University, UK
Dave Barefield, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Mei Methawasin, University of Missouri School of Medicine, USA
Daria Amiad-Pavlov, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL
Jason Karch, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Tuesday
Anthony Hessel, University of Muenster, GERMANY
Scott Zawieja, University of Missouri School of Medicine, USA
Chris Tiessen, University of Calgary, CANADA
Shane Nelson, University of Vermont, USA
Robyn Rebbeck, University of Minnesota, USA
Wednesday
Asuka Eguchi, University of California, Irvine, USA
Sarah Lehman, Edgewise Therrapeutics, USA
Sebastaan Dalle, University of Antwerp, BELGIUM
Neha Nandwani, Stanford University, USA
Matt Childers, University of Washington, USA
Thursday
Krishna Chinthalapudi, The Ohio State University, USA
Harry Pritchard, The University of Manchester, UK
Seby (Yu) Chen, University of British Columbia, CANADA
Weikang Ma, Illinois Tech, USA
Sharon George, University of Pittsburgh, USA