Location: JMR ‘62 Seminar Room
Title: Bioengineering Strategies for Augmenting Skeletal Muscle Function in Rotator Cuff Injuries
Speaker: Woojin Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!
IRM Faculty Lunch
Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
“Utilizing human brain organoids for neural repair”
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
12:00 PM | 9-100 SCTR
This event is for faculty only.
Location: BRB 253
Title: A central role of mechanotransduction in controlling Shh expression via Yap activation in both regeneration and embryonic development
Speaker: Dr. Yangzi Yang, Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Developmental Biology
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!
Location: Seminar Room CRB Auditorium
Title: Myostatin: A molecular Rheostat for Muscle Mass
Speaker: Se-Jin Lee, MD PhD, The Jackson Laboratory (co-sponsored with PCMD)
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!
About
The annual IRM retreat will be held on January 24, 2024 from 12-5 PM (with happy hour to follow) at the Franklin Institute Museum of Science in Philadelphia! We hope to see you all for this in-person afternoon of highlights from IRM labs, discussion about future research initiatives, and welcoming of new IRM faculty. The IRM retreat is open to any faculty, staff, postdocs, and students from Penn/CHOP interested in regenerative medicine research.
Directions
The Franklin Institute is located at 222 N 20th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Complete information about directions and ways to get there are posted on the FI website.
If you’re driving, parking is available at the FI’s garage at a cost of $20. The GPS location is 271 North 21st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Abstracts
Students and postdocs: we are looking for lightning talk and poster presenters!
Register to attend the retreat here!
Location: Seminar Room CRB Auditorium
Title: Requirements of Insulin-like growth factor I sources and forms for skeletal muscle regeneration
Speaker: Elisabeth Barton, PhD, University of Florida
Hosted by: Foteini Mourkioti, PhD, and Nat Dyment, PhD, of the IRM Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program.
Open to all Penn faculty, postdocs, students, and staff!