The Society for Muscle Biology is glad to announce that the "Frontiers in Myogenesis: Advances in Skeletal Muscle Growth, Repair and Disease" conference will be held on November 6-11th 2023 in São Paulo (Brazil) at the Sofitel Guarujá Jequitimar hotel.
The full program will be announced ahead of the conference but will follow a similar structure to the last on-site edition of the Conference in 2021.
By registering and attending the conference you agree to follow the Code of Conduct and the conference policy regarding Health and Safety.
Keynote Speakers:
Giulio Cossu, University of Manchester, UK
Mayana Zatz, Instituto de Biociências, Brazil
List of confirmed speakers:
Atsushi Asakura, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, USA
Anton Bennett, Yale University, USA
Helen Blau, Stanford University, USA
Thomas Braun, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Elizabeth Chen, UT Southwestern, USA
Jeff Dilworth, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Penney Gilbert, University of Toronto, Canada
Clarissa Henry, University of Maine, USA
Sujatha Jagannathan, University of Colorado, USA
Minchul Kim, Strasbourg University, France
Robert Krauss, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Dawn Lowe, University of Minnesota, USA
Julia von Maltzahn, Leibniz Institute of Aging, Germany
Doug Millay, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Pura Munoz-Canoves, Pompeu-Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Brad Olwin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Edward Owusu-Ansah, Columbia University, USA
Rita Perlingeiro, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Charlotte Peterson, University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences, USA
Pier Lorenzo Puri, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, USA
April Pyle, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Frederic Relaix, Paris Est-Creteil University, Paris, France
Fabio Rossi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Alessandra Sacco, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, USA
Vittorio Sartorelli, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Bethesda (MD), USA
Frank Schnorrer, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, France
Eileen Shore, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Francesco Saverio Tedesco, University College London, UK
Peter Zammit, King’s College London, UK
Will Wang, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, San Diego, USA
Zhenguo Wu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
A visa to enter Brazil is not required for citizens of most countries if the stay is shorter than 90 days, with proof of onward and return flights. The Society of Muscle Biology strongly invites all the potential attendees to check their entry requirements with their international office and consulate.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
University of Paris Est Creteil, Paris, France