Muscle Journal Club

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

Spring Schedule

DATE FORMAT PRESENTER TOPIC
January 21, 2026 Myology Seminar Hichem Tasfaout, PharmD, PhD SIMPLI-GT: A novel gene therapy method to deliver and express large proteins
January 28, 2026 JC Brooke Seldin Expression of full-length dystrophin reverses muscular dystrophy defects in young and old mdx4cv mice
February 4, 2026 JC Multiple Presenters Longevity of cardiac and skeletal muscle proteins is dependent on tissue and subcellular compartmentation patterns
February 11, 2026 JC Xinyue Liu Muscle-derived myostatin is a major endocrine driver of follicle-stimulating hormone synthesis
February 18, 2026 Myology Seminar
Communicore C1-004
zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98869061176
Jeremy Ducharme, PhD
Post-doctoral associate in Dr Sarah and Andrew Judge labs; Dept. of Physical Therapy, UF
Complement C1q Drives Skeletal Muscle Wasting in Pancreatic Cancer
February 25, 2026 JC Orinda Hobson Stage-specific and cell-autonomous functions of Delta-like 1 in skeletal muscle stem cells and myogenesis
March 4, 2026
Zoom Only
Myology Seminar Leigh Breen, PhD, FHEA, FECSS
Professor of Translational Physiology
Leicester Lifestyle and Health Research Group
University of Leicester
Accelerated Sarcopenia in Metabolic Disease: Clinical and Molecular Insights
March 11, 2026 JC Maya Semel Single-nuclei sequencing of skeletal muscle reveals subsynaptic-specific transcripts involved in neuromuscular junction maintenance
March 18, 2026 No class Spring Break
March 25, 2026 JC Data discussion practice talks TBD
April 1, 2026 JC No class TBD
April 8, 2026 JC Martin Schonk Complementing muscle regeneration—fibro-adipogenic progenitor and macrophage-mediated repair of elderly human skeletal muscle
April 15, 2026

Only on Zoom
Myology Seminar Michael Lopez, MD, PhD The BMP4-Smad8-miRNA Pathway in Dystrophic Skeletal Muscles
April 22, 2026 JC Debate TBD