Conference Presentations (Selection) - Dr. Manuel Taft
2022 - September:
Invited Talk “The role of class-18 myosins in the assembly, organization and regulation of muscle stress fibers and sarcomeres” at the 49th European Muscle Conference in Prague, Czech Republic; https://www.emc2022prague.eu/
2022 - June:
Invited Talk “The role of class-18 myosins in the organization of actin structures in muscle and non-muscle cells” at the conference “Actin and Actin-Binding Proteins in Health and Disease” in Bydgoszcz, Poland; https://actinconference.ukw.edu.pl/
2022 - May:
Poster Talk “Myosin-18B regulates assembly and performance of stress fibers and sarcomeres” at the 34nd European Cytoskeletal Forum (ECF) meeting in Hannover, Germany; https://www.europeancytoskeletalforum.org/ecf-2022
2019 – September
Selected Talk “Myosin-18B regulates sarcomeric myosin dynamics and actin thin filament organization during cardiac myofibril assembly” at the 48th European Muscle Conference in Canterbury, UK; https://www.emc2019.com/
2017 - June:
Poster Talk “Human Myosin-18B – A Versatile Actin Binding Protein Implicated in Cardiac Myofibrillogenesis” at the 32nd European Cytoskeletal Forum (ECF) meeting in Helsinki, Finland
2016 - April:
Talk “Impact of metabolite- and small molecule- mediated activation and stabilization of b-cardiac myosin on sarcomere performance” at the Research Group Initiative Meeting, Bonn, Germany
2016 - February:
Poster Talk “Arachidonic acid directly binds and activates b-cardiac myosin in the regulated cardiac actomyosin complex” at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Biophysical Society in Los Angeles, USA
2016 - January:
Invited Talk “Class-18 Myosins are Versatile Actin Binding Proteins” at the 4th Meeting of the Israeli Forum for Cytoskeleton and Motility, Technion, Haifa, Israel; http://ifcm2016.net.technion.ac.il/
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Editorial board member of Cytoskeleton
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