Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Genetics

In May 2007, we hosted "The 20th Anniversary of the DMD Gene Discovery: Impact on Muscle Biology, Disease and Therapy" symposium with approximately 200 attendees. This meeting was very successful and we have had many requests to hold a follow up conference for 2010. We are happy to announce that "The 2nd Ottawa Conference on Neuromuscular Disease" being organized by Drs. Kothary, Megeney and Parks has joined forces with the "New Directions in Biology & Disease of Skeletal Muscle Meeting" being organized by Dr. Lee Sweeney (University of Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth McNally (University of Chicago Medical Center) and are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a joint meeting entitled "The Ottawa Conference on New Directions in Biology & Disease of Skeletal Muscle". The conference will highlight current developments in muscle biology, disease, and therapy with presentations by leading international researchers. We have confirmed 2 keynote speakers, Dr. Eric Olson and Dr. Andrew Marks, and have invited 30 speakers from North America and abroad (currently 14 confirmed). We are anticipating more than 300 attendees, many of whom will be trainees.