Excited to share our preprint using time-resolved small-angle X-ray diffraction to study myosin motor conformations during isometric twitch and tetanus contractions in the slow-twitch rat soleus skeletal muscle #myoblue

There is still time for ECA members to apply for travel awards to #EMC2025. Applications are now being recieved until 06/06/25

The European Muscle Conference 2025 website is now live! www.emc2025amsterdam.com The ECA have a number of travel awards available for ECR's attending. We will be hosting an online meeting on 14/05/25 at 1600 CET to provide further information about the travel awards, so come along for more info

Some really kind words and interesting perspectives from @hesselanthony.bsky.social on our paper published in @pnas.org. (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). Anthony sheds some light on why there are exciting times ahead for the muscle X-ray diffraction community!

The final piece of the puzzle for my PhD thesis, currently under review. We looked at the trajectory of age-related serial sarcomere loss across young (8 mo), middle-aged (20 mo), old (32 mo), and very old rats (36 mo) in 5 different muscles. A simple study but it provided a lot of cool insight!

For a bite-sized summary of our main findings @esrf.fr have kindly written a brief overview of our paper: www.esrf.fr/home/news/ge... #myoblue

This has been a long time in the making but I am absolutely delighted to share our latest paper published in @pnas.org where we use time-resolved X-ray diffraction to elucidate the regulatory roles of the thick and thin filaments during muscle relaxation #myoblue www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The meeting can be accessed via the below link: duke.zoom.us/j/91574693682 (Meeting ID: 915 7469 3682)

The Early Careers Association of the European Society for Muscle Research invite you to join us for our 5th annual ECA online event titled "Muscle Research Between Academia and Industry" with talks from Dr Sinead Roberts @sineadrobert and Dr Valentin Burkart on 26th March 2025 at 1600 CET

🚨📢Paper alert! Real progress on identifying why residual force enhancement occurs in skeletal muscle! This was a study I dreamed about since grad school. Please share! 🔬💪🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

First foray into Bluesky. Lets kick things off by sharing our latest paper recently published in @jphysiol.bsky.social from the Brunello lab at King's College London where we used time-resolved X-ray diffraction to study load-dependence for the activation of myosin motors in cardiac muscle