Below is the schedule of GenBioPAC Global Lab meetings. Meetings that have already been held are linked to their video (click on date) and summary notes from the meeting.
2026 Meetings
November 20th – Eric Leszczynski (30 minutes)
https://msu.zoom.us/j/93987643146
Meeting ID: 939 8764 3146
Passcode: 799649
2026 Meetings
March 26 -Robert Grange and Elaine Lee.
February 27 - Kevin Murach, University of Arkansas. "Transcriptional Regulators of Skeletal Muscle"
2025 Meetings: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/92696490613?pwd=aB0YFXqhdOXrYVCqlVjB0hg5nwdqpf.1
January 10 - Steering Committee Meeting
February 14 – Sarah Kuzmiak-Glancy PhD, University of Maryland. 30-minute talk "Mitochondrial Responsiveness to Intracellular Signals: Why you so Sensitive?"
March 14 - Gregory Henderson, PhD, and trainee Keigo Tomoo Purdue University "Physiological roles of plasma free fatty acid carrier proteins in various metabolic conditions."
April 11 – Kristin Stanford, PhD and trainee Elisa Felix-Soriano, PhD – Ohio State University. "Paternal exercise improves health of offspring."
May 9 – Jeff Horowitz, PhD "Exercise-induced adipose tissue remodeling enhances metabolic health in adults with obesity" and trainee Tao Zhang "Rapid changes in the extracellular matrix of adipose tissue in the hours after exercise ." University of Michigan.
June 13 - Nicole Schwartz, PhD (30 min talk) – "Early-Life Effects on Physical Activity and Other Health-Related Traits" Chapman College and Layan Mendis (short talk) "Genetic and Epigenetic Determinants of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours." VU University Amsterdam.
July 11 – Megan E. Holmes, PhD – Mississippi State University. "Moving Rural Youth Towards Health: The Physical Activity and Health Landscape for Children in Underserved Regions"
August - Summer Break - No Meeting
September 12 – Christoph Handschin, PhD – University of Basel (Switzerland). "The molecular mechanisms that exercise training adaptation in skeletal muscle tissue."
October 10 – NO MEETING
November 14 – Elizabeth McNeill, PhD – Iowa State University. "How moms move matters: early-pregnancy activity patterns link to breast-milk EV microRNAs." Trainee: Beatriz Elliot, PhD student in Neuroscience Iowa State University. "Plasma extracellular vesicle miRNA expression in acute aerobic exercise in individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
December 12 – Brian Glancy, PhD - National Institutes of Health. "Sustaining Power: Building Energy Netwoeks in Striated Muscles."
2024 Meetings: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81168508761?pwd=U1dHZTZRL3RBSEc2bDFiVVFuYzFZdz09
1/12/24 - GenBioPac Town Hall (Annual Meeting)
2/9/24 meeting - Mark Pataky, PhD, Asst Prof at Mayo Clinic, 30 min speaker: Impact of biological sex on molecular signatures of skeletal muscle. (meeting notes)
3/8/24 meeting - Christoph Thaiss, PhD, Asst Prof at Univ of Pennsylvania , 30 min speaker: Gut microbiome-brain interactions in the regulation of exercise motivation . (meeting notes)
4/12/24 meeting - Michael Skinner, PhD, Washington State Univ, 30 min speaker: Environmental Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease Susceptibility: Epigenetic Origins of Disease, Health, and Evolution. (meeting notes)
5/10/24 meeting - LiLian Yuan, PhD, Des Moines University, 30 min speaker: Individual and sex differences in voluntary exercise behavior. (meeting notes)
6/14/24 meeting - Anja Bye, PhD, and Marie Klevjer, PhD Candidate, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech, 30 min speakers: GWAS of cardiorespiratory fitness and associations with CVD (meeting notes)
7/12/24 - NO MEETING, summer break
8/9/24 - NO MEETING, summer break
9/13/24 meeting - Laurie Goodyear, PhD, Prof of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 30 min speaker: How Do We Stop the Transmission of Metabolic Disease Across Generations? Epigenetic Responses to Maternal Exercise (meeting notes)
10/11/24 meeting - Joram Mul, PhD, Director of Fit Brain Lab, University of Amsterdam: Neurobiology of exercise-induced stress resilience (meeting notes)
11/8/24 meeting - Karyn Esser, PhD, Prof and Chair Dept Physiology and Aging, Univ of Florida , 30 min speaker: Physical activity and muscle clocks, partners in health (meeting notes)
2022-2023 Meetings
9/9/22 meeting - Dr. Yann Klimentidis 30 min speaker; Dr. Peter Clark, 5 min speaker (meeting notes)
10/14/22 meeting - Dr. Ben Greenwood 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
11/11/22 meeting - Dr. Justin Rhodes 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
12/9/22 meeting - Dr. Deborah Good 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
1/13/23 meeting - Dr. David Ferguson 30 min speaker (meeting notes)
2/10/23 meeting - Dr. Elina Sillanpää 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
3/10/23 meeting - Dr. Harold Lee 30 min speaker ; Haley Cabrera 5 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
4/14/23 meeting - Dr. Peter Clark 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
5/12/23 meeting - Dr Alun Williams 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
6/16/23 meeting - Speaker Monica Hubal ; Eric Leszczynski 5 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
7/14/23 meeting - Dr. Mark Sarzynski 30 min speaker; Tim Lightfoot 5 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
8/9/23 meeting - Dr Lex Kravitz 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
14/10/23 meeting - Dr Sarah Voisin 30 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
10/11/23 meeting - Dr Urho Kujala 30 min speaker ; Zoey Zi 5 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
12/8/23 meeting - Dr Louis Perusse 30 min speaker ; Dr Ayland Letsinger 5 min speaker (meeting notes and chat)
2021-2022 Meetings
9/10/21 Meeting - first meeting (meeting notes)
10/8/21 meeting - Dr. J. Timothy Lightfoot speaker (meeting notes)
11/12/21 meeting - Dr. Claude Bouchard speaker (meeting notes)
12/10/21 meeting - Dr. Eco de Geus speaker (meeting notes)
1/14/22 meeting - Dr. Jaako Kaprio speaker (meeting notes)
2/11/22 meeting - Drs. Sara Campbell, Karen Peterson/Erica Jansen speakers - (meeting notes)
3/11/22 meeting - Dr. Martine Thomis speaker- (meeting notes, meeting chat text)
4/8/22 meeting - Dr. Molly Bray 30 min speaker; Dr. Ben Greenwood 5 min speaker - (meeting notes, meeting chat text)
5/13/22 meeting - Dr. Ted Garland, Jr. 30 min speaker; Dr. David Ferguson 5 min speaker - (meeting notes, meeting chat text)
6/10/22 meeting - Dr. Sara Campbell 30 min speaker - (meeting notes, meeting chat text)
7/8/22 meeting - Dr. Marcel den Hoed 30 min speaker - (meeting notes)
8/22 NO MEETING
Scenes from the monthly GenBioPAC Global Lab meeting! Can you name all the countries represented in this picture?