Collaboratorium

Presenter:  Dan Fitzsimons is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Sciences at the University of Idaho. His research program focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying contraction and relaxation in the healthy and diseased human heart. Title: Molecular cooperativity and force development in human ventricular myocardium In healthy mammalian myocardium, Ca2+ binding to troponin C (TnC) triggers a series of events that ultimately allows for the strong-binding of myosin cross-bridges to actin and the subsequent development…