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21st IIM Meeting

21st IIM Meeting

Assisi, Italy · 4-7 September 2024

Assisi, Italy
4-7 September 2024

Programme

Programme

The Meeting will be preceded by the Convention, “Physical Exercise in Health Promotion: Integrating Muscle Contraction with Nutrition” (in Italian) organized in collaboration with the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI); 4 September 2024, 9:30 AM, Hotel Cenacolo.

Wednesday, 4 September 2024

15:00-15:10

Welcome and opening of the meeting

15:10-15:50

Lecture 1

Leonardo F. Ferreira (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)

Molecular and biophysical basis of skeletal muscle dysfunction in heart failure

15:50-17:20

Session 1: Muscle function and E-C coupling

Talks selected from Abstracts

17:20-17:40

Coffee break

17:40-19:10

Session 2: Cardiac muscle and cardiomyopathies

Talks selected from Abstracts

19:30

Dinner - Aperitivo Umbro
and (only for participants registered for the Advanced Myology Update course) Roundtable Discussions with the Invited Speakers: L. Ferreira, D. Guttridge, M. Rudnicki, J. von Maltzahn

Thursday, 5 September 2024

9:00-9:40

Lecture 2

Michael Rudnicki (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada)

Molecular regulation of muscle stem cell function

9:40-10:55

Session 3: Muscle stem cells and stem cell niche

Talks selected from Abstracts

10:55-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:30

Session 4: Muscle plasticity and physical exercise

Talks selected from Abstracts

12:30-12:40

Poster blitz 1 (ODD NUMBERS; selection)

13:00

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Poster Session 1 (ODD NUMBERS)

16:00

Bus departure to Assisi: guided tour and Dinner at Il Cantico di San Francesco

Friday, 6 September 2024

9:00-9:40

Lecture 2

Julia von Maltzahn (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)

Muscle stem cells in age and disease

9:40-10:55

Session 5: Muscle aging

Talks selected from Abstracts

10:55-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:30

Session 6: Genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic regulation of muscle

Talks selected from Abstracts

12:30-12:40

Poster blitz 2 (EVEN NUMBERS; selection)

13:00

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Poster Session 2 (EVEN NUMBERS)

16:00-16:40

Lecture 4

Denis C. Guttridge (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)

Regulation of the inflammatory muscle microenvironment in cancer cachexia

16:40-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-17:45

Session 7: Muscle wasting and cachexia

Talks selected from Abstracts

17:45-19:00

Session 8: Muscle diseases and regenerative medicine

Talks selected from Abstracts

20:00

Social Dinner - Awards and prizes

22:00

Dance party

Saturday, 7 September 2024

High Training Course in ADVANCED MYOLOGY UPDATE 2024

10:00

Bus departure to Palazzo Bernabei

10:30-12:30

Dedicated lessons

L. Ferreira, D. Guttridge, M. Rudnicki, J. von Maltzahn

12:30

Light lunch