2015年肌肉兴奋收缩耦联戈登会议

The 2015 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Muscle: Excitation/Contraction Coupling (ECC) will once again bring together established leaders and new investigators from around the globe to present their latest unpublished research, as well as engage in meaningful scientific and social interactions. This is the premier meeting of basic and translational scientists interested in the molecular mechanisms of ECC and how defects in this process lead to debilitating and life-threatening muscle disorders.

Scientific sessions will focus on structural studies of the ECC molecular machinery, newly identified components in the molecular mechanism and regulation of ECC, molecular mechanisms of junction formation, the impact redox modifications of ECC proteins on muscle, fatigue, aging, and disease, emerging evidence for the importance of ECC in muscle metabolism and metabolic disease, and the pathophysiological mechanisms and development of novel therapeutic targets for diseases associated with dysfunction of the ECC process.

For the first time, this GRC will be preceded by a two-day GRS for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. In addition, innovative program elements (joining senior and junior investigator as Session Discussion Leaders, "Poster Preview" and "Late-Breaking" Poster Highlight speaker slots) will be used to maximize poster session visibility, as well as enhance the integration and exposure of promising young investigators in the field. In this way, the conference will provide a forum for young and established investigators to meet, interact and exchange opinions on the various topics of the meeting.

By bridging basic science, translational and clinical studies related to the mechanism of muscle diseases, this meeting aims to foster new research directions and scientific collaborations. The outcome of this GRC conference will be to both stimulate new directions in ECC research and to promote the development and advancement of early stage investigators in the field.