The Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells and Regeneration Conference

Dada Pisconti was born and raised in Italy where she completed her PhD in Cell Biology. After a short postdoc experience at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Pisconti worked with Brad Olwin at the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied the molecular mechanisms involved in muscle stem cell communication with their niche. She moved to the University of Liverpool, UK, and started her own lab, continuing her work on muscle stem cell-niche communication. She expanded her research to how such mechanisms regulate muscle stem cell transcriptional activity and the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy. In 2018, the Pisconti lab moved to the State University of New York at Stony Brook where the work has further expanded into developing treatments for muscular dystrophy.
 

Doug Millay’s laboratory studies skeletal muscle development and regeneration, cell-cell fusion, exercise-induced muscle adaptations, aging, and muscular dystrophy.

Millay began his work at Cincinnati Children’s in 2014 and has been a researcher for more than 17 years. He did his graduate studies with Jeff Molkentin (Cincinnati Children’s) and post-doctoral work with Eric Olson (UT Southwestern).

Millay is a recipient of the Pew Scholar Biomedical Sciences award in 2015 and the Cincinnati Children’s Endowed Scholar award in 2019. He is a principal investigator of grants from the NIH. 

 

Hugo Olguín’s research interest is in the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the coordination of different cell fate decisions during muscle regeneration and muscle maintenance.

Olguín trained as a Biologist at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile where he completed his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology. After a brief training in the laboratory of Delphine Duprez at the Institute d’Embryologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire du CNRS et du College de France, he was able to combine classical biochemistry, cell biology, and developmental biology approaches to study how extracellular matrix components, known as proteoglycans, influence muscle formation in the embryo. Olguín moved to the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2002 as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Bradley B. Olwin. He was awarded an MDA grant during this time to study the molecular interactions between transcriptional regulators controlling satellite cell maintenance and myogenic progression. Olguín returned to Chile to continue his research in the molecular regulation of satellite cells.