Exciting perspectives for Translational Myology in the Abstracts of the 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays: Giovanni Salviati Memorial – Chapter I - Foreword

Abstract

Myologists working in Padua (Italy) were able to continue a half-century tradition of studies of skeletal muscles, that started with a research on fever, specifically if and how skeletal muscle contribute to it by burning bacterial toxin. Beside main publications in high-impact-factor journals by Padua myologists, I hope to convince readers (and myself) of the relevance of the editing Basic and Applied Myology (BAM), retitled from 2010 European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM), of the institution of the Interdepartmental Research Center of Myology of the University of Padova (CIR-Myo), and of a long series of International Conferences organized in Euganei Hills and Padova, that is, the PaduaMuscleDays. The 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays (2018SpPMD), were held in Euganei Hills and Padua (Italy), in March 14-17, and were dedicated to Giovanni Salviati. The main event of the “Giovanni Salviati Memorial”, was held in the Aula Guariento, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti of Padua to honor a beloved friend and excellent scientist 20 years after his premature passing. Using the words of Prof. Nicola Rizzuto, we all share his believe that Giovanni “will be remembered not only for his talent and originality as a biochemist, but also for his unassuming and humanistic personality, a rare quality in highly successful people like Giovanni. The best way to remember such a person is to gather pupils and colleagues, who shared with him the same scientific interests and ask them to discuss recent advances in their own fields, just as Giovanni have liked to do”. Since Giovanni’s friends sent many abstracts still influenced by their previous collaboration with him, all the Sessions of the 2018SpPMD reflect both to the research aims of Giovanni Salviati and the traditional topics of the PaduaMuscleDays, that is, basics and applications of physical, molecular and cellular strategies to maintain or recover functions of skeletal muscles. The translational researches summarized in the 2018SpPMD Abstracts are at the appropriate high level to attract approval of Ethical Committees, the interest of International Granting Agencies and approval for publication in top quality, international journals. This was true in the past, continues to be true in the present and will be true in the future. All 2018SpPMD Abstracts are indexed at the end of the Chapter IV.

2023 On-site Padua Days on Muscle and Mobiliy Medicine: Call for speakers

“…The 2023 On-site Pdm3 continue a forty years tradition starded in 1985 with the First Abano Terme Meeting on Rehbilitation, followed ten years later with the first Padua Muscle Days (PMD), renamed Pdm3 in 2018. 1-12 …”

“…The 2023 On-site Pdm3 continue a forty years tradition starded in 1985 with the First Abano Terme Meeting on Rehbilitation, followed ten years later with the first Padua Muscle Days (PMD), renamed Pdm3 in 2018. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The attached Pdm3 preliminary program is almost ready with sessions, organizers and keynote speakers, but there is still room for many interesting and interested young speakers. Some of the organizers of the Pdm3 sessions dedicated to molecular and cellular myology are old PMD Friends, specifically H. Lee Sweeney, Christiaan Leewenburgh, Helmut Kern and Paolo Gargiulo, but there will be also interesting new entries, including both those of basic Myology and those of the Rehabilitation Sessions.…”

Will there be large or small gifts to PDM3 attendees and EJTM authors in March and June 2023?

“…Case reports, literature reviews, mechanism of action studies, and proposals for future research are welcome. As usual, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] organization and program of PDM3 are costitutively flexible and we will find solutions to accommodate further proposals. There is no doubt that 2023 On-Site PDM3 will be a great gift to all attendees.…”

From Ejtm (European Journal of Translational Myology) to Ejt3M (European Journal of Translational Myology, Mobility, Medicine)

“…T he first issue of the Volume 28, 2018 of the European Journal of Translational Myology (Ejtm) opens with the collection of Abstracts of the 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays, 1 an event dedicated to the research activities and the personality of Giovanni Salviati, who we were so unlucky to lose him in the best of his fifties. 2 Many of his Colleagues and Pupils will gather next March 15-17 to Padova and Euganei Hills to stress the importance for them and for the field of skeletal muscle of the important contributions of Giovanni to the fields of Myology.…”