Muscle Journal Club

Wednesdays, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: MSB, M559
Email Dr. Glen Walter if you have any questions.

Fall 2026 Schedule

DATE FORMAT PRESENTER TOPIC
Aug 26 Journal Club N/A Organizational Meeting/Paper 1
Sept 2 Journal Club Christian Noble Branched actin polymerization drives invasive protrusion formation to promote myoblast fusion during mouse skeletal muscle regeneration
Sept 9 Journal Club Brittany Poole Fiber-type vulnerability and proteostasis reprogramming in skeletal muscle during pancreatic cancer cachexia
Sept 16 Myology Seminar TBA
Sept 23 Journal Club Paper 3
Sept 30 Journal Club Paper 4
Oct 7 Myology Seminar Charly Lai, PhD | University of Maryland Myokine-mediated skeletal muscle-lung/heart/brain communication
Oct 14 Journal Club Paper 5
Oct 21 Myology Seminar TBA
Oct 28 Journal Club Paper 6
Nov 4 Myology Seminar Charles P. Emerson, Jr. Ph.D. | UMass Chan Medical School Overcoming therapeutic obstacles for treatment of muscular dystrophies
Nov 11 No class – Veterans Day
Nov 18 Myology Seminar TBA
Nov 25 No class – Thanksgiving
Dec 2 Myology Seminar Circadian Clocks in Health & Disease