Molecular and Cellular Networks

The principal goal of the 2015 Myogenesis Gordon Conference entitled "Myogenesis: Molecular and Cellular Networks" is to broaden our current understanding of the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling skeletal muscle development, regeneration, integrity, and turnover. Insights into these processes supporting muscle health and disease will derive from specific topics that include genomic and epigenetic regulation of muscle genes; muscle cell biology, fiber specification, and metabolism; and molecular and cell-cell interactions during development, muscle repair, and aging. Leaders in the field will lecture on these topics to inform as well as stimulate discussion among conference attendees. The program will provide opportunities for platform presentations from junior scientists, both invited and selected from submitted abstracts. Additional program events including poster sessions, informal gatherings in the afternoons, and social events will maximize interactions, with the potential to advance new ideas in this rapidly moving field. The venue of the conference in the Tuscany hills of Italy provides a relaxing atmosphere conducive to the exchange of information benefiting attendees at every professional level.