Collection

2024 European Muscle Conference

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 January 2024
Submission deadline
30 November 2024
This Special Collection is dedicated to the 51st European Muscle Conference (EMC), which will take place at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference will open on 22 September with the Jean Hanson Lecture by Professor Juleen R. Zierath and close with the Marcus Schaub Young Investigators Awards on 26 September. The scientific program of the 2024 conference will have a particular focus on muscle energy metabolism, but will also cover a broad spectrum of muscle topics ranging from molecular structure to whole-body physiology and pathophysiology. In keeping with the EMC tradition, the 2024 conference aims to create an environment that fosters the meeting of experts in a variety of specialist topics as well as interdisciplinary dialogue. In addition to the main program, EMC 2024 will offer two satellite events. The Young Investigators Forum, organized by the European Society of Muscle Research – Early Careers Association on 22 September 2024, will provide a unique opportunity for PhD students and postdocs to present and discuss their work. The symposium and workshop Skeletal Muscle Research – from Cell to Human on 26 September 2024 will feature selected lectures and hands-on demonstrations focusing on in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo methods to assess skeletal muscle metabolism and composition. All participants of EMC 2024 or its satellite events are invited to submit original research papers or reviews for this Special Collection.

Editors

  • Kathryn H Myburgh Kathryn H Myburgh , 

    Kathryn H Myburgh

    Professor Myburgh currently holds a national South African Research Chair with research covering Integrative Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Biology and Biotechnology. She became Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University in 2014 and served as President of the Physiological Society of Southern Africa between 2005 and 2010. She has been a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine for over 35 years and received their Citation Award for lifetime achievement in 2023. From 2015 and 2019 she was part of the European Union Marie Curie RISE Consortium for Muscle Stress Relief.

  • Sergej Pirkmajer Sergej Pirkmajer  &

    Sergej Pirkmajer

    Professor Pirkmajer is currently Associate Professor of Pathophysiology at University of Ljubljana. In 2013, he became Assistant Prof of Pathophysiology and in 2016 a group leader. Since 2022 he has been head of the research programme Molecular mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle development and function and since 2023 Associate Professor of Pathophysiology. Since 2021, he has been coordinating the Slovenian part of the Horizon 2020 project Alliance4Life_ACTIONS.

  • Natasa Nikolic Natasa Nikolic

    Natasa Nikolic

    Natasa Nikolic started her academic career as a Ph.D.-candidate (2008-2013) in the laboratory of Prof. Arild Rustan and Prof. Hege Thoresen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. After completing her dissertation, she continued her work in the field of energy metabolism in human skeletal muscle cells as a post doctoral research fellow at the same department (2014-2019). In 2022, she became senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy.

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