History

In December 2015, professors Cláudia Mermelstein (ICB/UFRJ), Alberto Nóbrega (IMPPG/UFRJ), Manoel Luis Costa (ICB/UFRJ), and Vincent Mouly (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) organized a Symposium on Myogenesis at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). This symposium featured lectures by Simon Hughes (King's College London, UK), Vincent Mouly (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), Frederique Magdinier (Aix Marseille Université, France), Cláudia Mermelstein (ICB/UFRJ), Mayana Zatz (USP/Brazil), and Gillian Butler-Browne (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France).

In May 2019, the 1st Brazilian Symposium on Muscle in Rio was held at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB) at UFRJ. This event was organized by professors Cláudia Mermelstein and Manoel Luis Costa, both from ICB/UFRJ, and featured lectures by Claudia Mermelstein, Manoel Luis Costa, Wilson Savino, Ingo Riederer, Aline Yamashita, Martha Sorenson, Thereza-Quirico, Rhayanna Gaglianone , Jussara Candido, Douglas Pinheiro, Daniela Beghini, Daniel Adesse, Pedro Paulo Manso, Iranaia Miranda, Flavia Bloise and Wagner Seixas. The meeting was very productive and inspiring, serving to foster interactions between more than 100 researchers and students of the muscle biology field in ​​Rio de Janeiro.