SPEAKERS

Day 1 - Muscle metabolism and exercise in health and disease

  • Eric Hoffman, Children's National Medical Center, Washington - Genetic modifiers and muscle exercise
  • Ron Haller,  Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Dallas - Exercise and mitochondrial function
  • John Vissing, University of Copenhagen - Exercise treatment in muscle disorders
  • Antonios Matsakas, Hull York Medical School - Muscle perfusion and signalling following exercise in animal models

Day 2 - Immune mediated peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction, and muscle disorders

  • Hugh Willison, University of Glasgow - Autoimmune neuropathies-pathogenesis and future perspectives
  • Jan Verschuuren, Leiden University Medical Centre - Myasthenia: novel antigens and therapies
  • Werner Stenzel, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Inflammatory myopathies
  • Steven A Greenberg, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Childrens Hospital Boston
    Harvard Medical School - Inflammatory myopathies

Day 3 - Advances in the treatment of neuromuscular disorders

  • Jenny Morgan, UCL Institute of Child Health - Skeletal muscle stem cells and muscular dystrophies
  • Brian Kaspar, Nationwide Children's Hospital/The Ohio State University - Regulation of skeletal muscle metabolic and angiogenic properties by nuclear hormone receptors: implications for skeletal muscle regeneration
  • Elizabeth M McNally, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Signalling pathways and modifiers in cardiac function in muscular dystrophy

 

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