WEBINAR—New Insights on the Cellular Bases of ‘Muscle Memory’

March 9, 2022
11 a.m. EST

A common anecdote about exercise is that muscles “remember” how to adapt after a pause in training. There is some scientific evidence for this purported “muscle memory,” but how it is potentially mediated within muscle cells is not well understood. This webinar will discuss current understanding of cellular muscle memory and highlight recent work on skeletal muscle epigenetics published in Function and elsewhere.

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Speaker

Kevin A. Murach, PhD, received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a master’s degree in exercise physiology at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia before earning his PhD in human bioenergetics from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His dissertation was a collaboration with NASA aimed at optimizing the exercise prescription for astronauts on the International Space Station. As a postdoctoral fellow, Murach studied muscle stem cells at the University of Kentucky Center for Muscle Biology under the guidance of Charlotte Peterson, PhD, and John McCarthy, PhD. He now is an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Murach’s current research uses human muscle samples, primary cell culture and genetically modified mouse models to understand the molecular cues that drive exercise adaptations and aging.