Munich has emerged as a well-connected centre of muscle research that includes exercise physiologists, biomechanists, molecular biologists and clinicians. Our community meets regularly during the Munich Muscle Meetings that are organized in different venues across the city. The recent meeting took place at the Friedrich Baur Institute with ~50 participants. The main organizers of the meeting on the 17th May were Prof. Benedikt Schoser and Dr. Peter Meinke. When organizing we ensure that the meeting covers various aspects of muscle research.
Again, the 7th Munich Muscle Meeting reflected the multifaceted aspects of our muscle, dealing with contraction, sarcopenia, proprioception, and biomechanical as well as molecular aspects of adaptation.
Speaker Board:
- Franchi, Martino (Department of Orthopaedics, University of Zurich): “Skeletal muscle adaptations to distinct contraction types: from whole muscle morphology to molecules”
- Drey, Michael (Geriatric Medicine, LMU): “Neurogenic sarcopenia”
- Kröger, Stephan (Biomedical Center, LMU): “Muscles have feelings, too: proprioception in health and disease”
- Trefz, Johannes (Exercise Biology, TUM): “Effect of hypoxia on the interactome of the Hippo effector Yap in muscle”
- Schuster, Robert (Department of Biomechanics in Sports, TUM): “Analysis of neuromuscular activation patterns during drop jumps from varying heights”
What are the next steps of our consortium? – The mission of the universities and research institutes is not only the research but also the outreach of their work. Thus, our consortium intends to present our work to a broader audience, such as journalists, health insurance agencies, sport associations…
Where will the next Munich Muscle Meeting take place? – We are very glad that Dr. Lore Becker will continue with the course of lectures in autumn (October/November) at the German Mouse Clinic. The German Mouse Clinic (GMC) as an open access phenotyping platform offers comprehensive phenotyping of mouse models in a systemic primary screen evaluating numerous physiological pathways within a variety of therapeutic areas. The GMC is headed by the Institute of Experimental Genetics and is a consortium with following members: Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Technical University of Munich and the Universities of Bonn and Heidelberg. Scientists from these institutions with an expert knowledge from various fields of mouse physiology and pathology work side-by-side in close cooperation with clinicians in the GMC.