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2012 Sessions
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| Muscle Diseases 1 | Nigel Clarke | Recent advances in understanding mechanisms of disease in the congenital myopathies |
| Chair: Kathryn North | Robert Bryson Richardson | Investigating filamin related myopathy in the zebrafish |
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| Muscle as an endocrine organ – muscle metabolism | Robyn Murphy (La Trobe) | Calpains |
| Chair: Gordon Lynch | David Stapleton | Glycogen/AMPK |
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| Skeletal muscle signalling and the control of muscle mass | Craig Harrison (Prince Henry’s Institute) | Activins |
| Chair: Gordon Lynch | Kate Murphy (Melbourne) | Renin-angiotensin system In muscle |
| Paul Gregorevic (Baker-IDI) | Follistatin | |
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| Aaron Russell (Deakin) | STARS |
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| Ageing and muscle metabolism | Glenn McConell (Victoria University) | Reactive oxygen species and type 2 diabetes |
| Chair: Gordon Lynch | Rob Lee-Young (Baker-IDI) | Obesity and regulation of muscle glucose |
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| René Koopman (Melbourne) | Nutritional interventions for ageing |
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| Muscle performance and fatigue | David Allen | Role of Pi in fatigue |
| Chair David Allen | Kathy North | Actinin-3 and muscle performance |
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| Travis Dukta | Role of carnosine in human muscle function |
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| Mike McKenna | Regulation of K by muscle – contribution to muscle fatigue |
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| Skeletal muscle EC coupling | Brad Launikonis | T-system excitability and Ca movements |
| Chair: Graham Lamb | Cedric Lamboley | Human single fibres, including depol-induced responses and Ca content assays |
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| Angela Dulhunty | DHPR: role in EC coupling |
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| Mycardial calcium regulation and dysregulation | James Bell | TBA |
| Chair: Lea Delbridge | Christian Soeller | Cardiac E-C coupling structures and calcium handling proteins in health and disease |
| Derek Laver | TBA | |
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| Peter Molenaar | TBA |
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| Cardiac ion fluxes, transporters and function | Yue-kun Ju | The functional role of store operated TRPC channels in the heart |
| Chair: Nicole Beard | Matt Perry | TBA |
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| Arie Moran (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) | The roles played by ZnT-1 in the regulation of cardiac calcium channels. |
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| Mechanisms in cardiac growth, death and dysfunction | Enzo Porrello | Regulation of mammalian heart regeneration by microRNAs |
| Chair: Christian Soeller | Lea Delbridge | Cardiomyocyte attrition and adaptation in response to metabolic stress |
| Helena Viola | Cytoskeletal regulation of mitochondrial function in models of cardiomyopathy. | |
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| Nikki Beard | Ryanodine receptor dysfunction in cardiotoxicity and heart failure |
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| Muscle Diseases 2 - Dystrophy | Sandra Cooper | Shifting the membrane repair paradigm; a mini-dysferlin and not ‘just any’ calcium? |
| Chair - Miranda Grounds | Nick Whitehead | TBA |
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| Stefan Gehrig | Turning up the heat on muscular dystrophy |
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