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This calendar includes all events from the following individual calendars: Department of Chemistry Alumni Events, Department Events (events of general interest and/or relevant to all research areas), and events related to specific research areas and programs (Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Inorganic Chemistry & Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry), as well as Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminars & Events.

 

CHBE 565 Seminar, Prof. Carlos Aguilar, University of Michigan, "Understanding & Rewriting the Molecular Music of Muscle Stem Cells in Aging" (host: Harley)

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and International Paper Company
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Nov 30, 2021   2:00 pm  
Contact
Christy Bowser
E-Mail
cbowser@illinois.edu
Phone
217-244-9214
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Originating Calendar
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Seminars and Events

Adult stem cells are powerful engines of endogenous repair that our body uses when presented with injury, but in old age, these engines become dysfunctional. This presentation will frame several vignettes of how skeletal muscle stem cell dysfunction occurs in old age and bioinformatics-based strategies to abate this behavior. In the first example, I will discuss the use of integrative genomic analysis to elucidate molecular mechanisms that contribute to changes to muscle stem cells in old age. In the second example, I will present how subsets of muscle stem cells adopt a neuro-regenerative fate in age and neurodegeneration using lineage tracing and single-cell RNA sequencing. Last, I will introduce how manipulation of muscle stem cell signaling can partially rejuvenate this population. Integrating these studies may ultimately provide foundations to discover and engineer new therapeutics for treatment of sarcopenia and aging.

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