Awards - 2011

Promoting improvements in muscle biology

                   2011 AWARD




The Lymn Foundation supported the Gordon Research Conference on Muscle and Molecular Motors with a grant of $5,000 to promote discussions on challenges in biochemistry and enzymology of muscle motor proteins. This highlighted two important 40-year anniversaries: the 1971 papers by Lymn and Taylor on the actomyosin ATPase mechanism, showing a chemical actin-myosin ATPase cycle consistent with the sliding filament model; and by Huxley and Simmons, proposing a model of the molecular mechanics of muscle force development.

Session leaders and speakers considered how current work leads to more complete understanding of models and questions posed by those papers. This timely opportunity provided critical analyses of current knowledge about chemo-mechanical processes and posed unanswered questions about muscle motor proteins and their enzymology.

Meeting Information:

July 10-15, 2011, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Chair: David D. Thomas (University of Minnesota)
Vice Chair: Michael Ostap (University of Pennsylvania)