Calendar of Events

Signaling Journal “Inhibiting Fibronectin Attenuates Fibrosis and Improves Cardiac Function in a Model of Heart Failure” will be presented by Dr. Donghai Wen on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. Journal Article:  Signaling Journal Club - Donghai Wen - September 27, 2023  

Please join us for this week’s Calcium Rounds session on Thur. Sept 28th at 9:05AM EST when Dr. Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie will be onsite to present “Vitamin D: Extra-Skeletal Effects” in Thier-1011. Objectives: Review the non-skeletal beneficial effects of vitamin D Discuss treatment goals for these non-skeletal benefits   Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

Phenotyping/Imaging Methods Workshop September 28, 2023     4:00 - 5:00 pm ET . Daniel Brooks, M.S. Sr. Research Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assistant Core Director, CSR Imaging and Biomechanical Testing Core and Eva Liu, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Director Histology and Histomorphometry Core

September 29, 2023    4:00 - 5:00 PM Dr. Karyn Esser Professor, Associate Director of Myology. University of Florida "Muscle clocks and exercise; partners in health"   Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom link Host:  Dr. LaDora Thompson, lvthomp@bu.edu   Dr. Esser Short Bio: Dr. Esser is Professor and Chair of the Physiology and Aging department and co-Director […]

You are cordially invited to The Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology's 4th Annual Symposium, Cell-Matrix Conversations, on Friday, October 20th from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on the Boston University campus. The Keynote Addresses will be by Dr. Boris Hinz, the Keenan Research Chair in Fibrosis Research at St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto Distinguished […]

Please join us for this week’s Calcium Rounds session on Thur. Oct. 5th at 9:05AM EST when Dr. Joy Tsai will be onsite to present “Osteoporosis therapy Part 1: Current Therapies” in Thier-1011.   Objectives: To understand the advantage and disadvantages of each of the medications that are currently approved by the US FDA for […]

CSR Friday Research Seminar Series Occurs the first or second Friday of every month from 3:30 - 5:00 pm ET "Determinants of Skeletal Fragility in Type 1 Diabetes" MGH Speaker: Fjola Johannesdottir, PhD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, BIDMC & HMS & “PET/MRI of Molecular and Structural Signatures of Peripheral Pain Generators" UCSF Speaker: Daehyun Yoon, […]

ASBMR 2023 Symposium: Osteocytes in Bone Health and Disease and as Therapeutic Target Cells The ASBMR 2023 Symposium will be held on Thursday, October 12, 2023, one day prior the 2023 Annual Meeting, at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Organized by Teresita Bellido, PhD, Natalie Sims, PhD and Marc Wein, MD, PhD, the […]

SAVE THE DATE: GRICE DAY - RICHARD SCHWEND MD Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM. Inn at Longwood Medical, Longwood Hall, 342 Longwood Avenue 7:00 to 8:00        Grand Rounds 8:15 to 3:15        Annual Grice Day    

Osteoporosis Therapy Part 2: Key Controversies & New Agents Benjamin Leder, M.D. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

Mineral Metabolism Journal Club: Group Discussion of ASBMR meeting 1 2023-2024 Friday’s from 1:00 to 2:00 PM REMOTE ONLY. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

Boston University GSDM Department of Translational Dental Medicine  Special Seminar Monday October 23rd at 12:00 PM   “Osteochondroprogenitors in development and homeostasis” Dr. Anna Spagnoli John W. and Helen H. Watzek Professor Department of Orthopedic Surgery, RUSH Medical College Department of Pediatrics, RUSH Medical College Director, Section of Molecular Medicine TDM Conference Room W2, 700 […]

RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics in Musculoskeletal Tissues Workshop October 25, 2023     4:00 - 5:00 pm ET . Matt Warman, PhD Professor of Genetics, Boston Children’s Hospital Director RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics Core

Osteoporosis Evaluation Part 2: DXA Basics Elaine Yu, M.D. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

Mineral Metabolism Journal Club: Group Discussion of ASBMR meeting 2 2023-2024 Friday’s from 1:00 to 2:00 PM REMOTE ONLY. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

 MHet (Musculoskeletal Health) ARC Seminar Series Friday Oct 27, 2023   4:00 PM (ET) Speaker: Dr. Jason McDougall Professor of Pharmacology and Anaesthesia, Dalhousie University "Understanding the Neurobiology of Joint Pain to Inform Future Treatments." Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom link Host:  Dr. David Felson dfelson@bu.edu   Dr McDougall Short Bio Prof. McDougall was born in South Shields […]

Special lecture: October 31, 2023 11 AM – 12 PM ET "Monogenic osteoporosis: from clinical manifestations to tissue-level pathology" Outi Mäkitie, MD PhD Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology Children’s Hospital University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Karp Conference Room First Floor RB01060 Children’s Hospital, Boston Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

BIDMC 2023-2024 Wilson C. Hayes Distinguished Musculoskeletal Health Lecture Series Nadeen Chahine, PhD Associate Professor of Biomechanics Columbia University November 1, 2023 (Zoom) 8:00 am – 9:00 am   Please contact Jessica Osorio josorio@bidmc.harvard.edu for Zoom information. Click here to view series flyer

Vitamin D: Skeletal Effects and Hypocalcemia Marie Demay, M.D. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

New CSR series: Meet the Editor Sponsored by the CSR Clinical Working Group Speaker: Clifford Rosen, MD Professor, Maine Medical Center Research Institute Associate Editor, New England Journal of Medicine   VIRTUAL ONLY EVENT:  email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom link

Mineral Metabolism Journal Club: Basic Science Journals (June-Sept) Hank Kronenberg, MD 2023-2024 Friday’s from 1:00 to 2:00 PM REMOTE ONLY. Email CSRmail@partners.org for Zoom information

Friday, November 3, 2023  • 3:30 – 5:00PM ET . Vineel Kondiboyina, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University “Cartilage Mechanobiology During Limb Growth” . Mustafa Unal, PhD Research Fellow Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Center for Advanced OrthopaedicStudies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School “A Unique Instrument to Assess Bone Matrix […]