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European Muscle Conference 2020-2022

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This Special Issue is dedicated to the 49th European Muscle Conference, originally scheduled to take place in Prague in September 2020. This annual ESMR meeting has been organized by Jitka Zurmanova and Frantisek Kolar under the auspices of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. The global covid-19 pandemic, which periodically increased its strength during the autumn and winter of the year, necessitated two postponements of the conference until 2022. In the meantime, the first successful online meeting in the history of the ESMR was organized by Jolanta Redowicz and Wolfgang Linke in 2021; more detailed information you can find here: https://www.emc2022prague.eu/

We are writing these lines at a time when the registration for the EMC in-person meeting in Prague is about to open for the third time (www.emc2022prague.eu). The scientific program of the upcoming meeting covers in 12 sessions a broad spectrum of muscle and heart research areas ranging from ultrastructure and molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction, through signaling and metabolism, to muscle disease and heart failure. These areas are reflected in the articles of the Special Issue, which is reopened for future EMC2022 participants until 30 November 2022. We all firmly believe that it will be possible to make the meeting happen, with a dear hope that we all can meet in person in Prague, September 2022, in peaceful Europe.

Editors

  • Jitka Žurmanová Jitka Žurmanová  &

    Jitka Žurmanová

    In 2007, she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Science (FoS), Charles University in Prague, focusing on Animal Physiology, and became Assistant Professor. In the same year, she established a research team at FoS with skeletal muscle research as a major topic, and later on concentrating on the mechanism of cardioprotective effect elicited by chronic hypoxia in key collaboration with Prof. Frantisek Kolar from the Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Since 2019, after her habilitation, she has been working at the FoS as Associate Professor and group leader focusing on cold acclimation research.

  • Kolář František Kolář František

    Kolář František

    Frantisek Kolar received his PhD in physiology and was appointed Professor of medical physiology at the Charles University in Prague. Until 2020, he was the head of the Laboratory of Developmental Cardiology at the Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research concerns myocardial ischemic tolerance and mechanisms of sustainable forms of cardioprotection induced mainly by chronic hypoxia and regular physical training. Currently, he is also interested in the influence of metabolic risk factors on the development and progression of post-ischemic heart failure and its experimental therapy.

Articles (9 in this collection)