Post-meeting report of the 2022 On-site Padua Days on Muscle and Mobility Medicine, March 30 - April 3, 2022, Padua, Italy.

Despite COVID-19 outbreak, the program of the 2022 Padua Days of Muscle and Mobility Medicine (PDM3) was confirmed On-site in February from March 30 to April 2, 2022 to be held at the University of Padua Aula Magna and at Conference Hall of the Hotel Petrarca of Thermae of Euganean Hills (Padua), Italy. Over 130 abstracts, including the last-minute submissions listed below, convinced organizers to extend the program to five days. The sponsorship of the University of Florida and the willingness of attendees to meet friends after two years of virtual conferences were the keys of success, despite concerns for current events in East Europe. Only fourteen Virtual presentations were in the final program, eight due to last-minute Coronavirus infections and six for East Europe problems. The first two days of the programincluded scientists and clinicians of the University of Florida, USA and their invitees from Canada, France, Italy, Swiden, Swiss, UK and USA. Researchers and clinicians from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK and USA filled the program of last three days more oriented to aging and rehabilitation. The large majority of abstracts was e-published before the meeting; here are last-minute abstracts and the final program. The program of the 2023 On-site PDM3 was informally designed during the Meeting, but will be circulated during 2022 summer. Fix the dates in your agenda from Thursday March 28 to Friday March 31. For now, please, submit Communications to the European Journal of Translational Myology, PAGEpress, Pavia, Italy and Original Articles or Reviews to the Journal Diagnostics, MDPI, Basel, Swiss. Both journals will host Special PDM3 Sections and will apply 50% discount on editorial processing fees to the first 15 accepted typescripts.

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Meetings on muscle biology, physiology, medicine and rehabilitation, called Padua Muscle Days (PMDs), started 30 years ago, as a series of two days Seminars, specifically to provide advice on Basic and Applied Myology (BAM). From 2010 when the Journal BAM was renamed European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM) theMeeting was renamed Padua Days of Muscle and Mobility Medicine (PDM3). Always the interest was on implementing basic research and clinical trials to helping prevent, manage and rehabilitate girls, boys, young adults and elderly persons suffering with mobility disorders. In the autumn of 2021, the 2022 Padua Days of Muscle and Mobility Medicine (PDM3) were planned to be held from March 30 to April 2, 2022. Despite the COVID-19 outbreak continued to impose restrictions, the meeting was confirmed as an on-site event in late February, 2022. Meantime, over 130 abstracts, including the last-minute submissions here included, were submitted and convinced organizers to extend the program to five days to provide time slots to young PhD trainees and post-docs. The willingness of attendees to meet friends after two years of virtual conferences is the key of success. Despite concerns of recent events in East Europe only 13 Virtual presentations are listed in the final program (see below), 6 of them due to last-minute Coronavirus infections of the Speakers. The day one and two of the final programincluded scientists and clinicians of the University of Florida, USA and their invitees from Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Swiss, U.K, and USA. Researchers and clinicians from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, UK and USA filled the program of the last three days more oriented to Aging and Rehabilitation. The abstracts collected up to February 28, 2022 were e-published in the European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM), 32(1) 2022 (Link to: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/10440), together with the program of the 2022 On-site PDM3 organized in the Aula Magna of the University of Padua (March 30) and for March 31 - April 3 at the Conference Hall of the Hotel Petrarca, Thermae of Euganean Hills (Padua), Italy. Indeed, 130 abstracts, including the last-minute submissions listed below, convinced organizers to extend the program to five days. The Program ended on late morning of Sunday April 3, 2022 with invitation to join the 2023 PDM3, at the Thermae of Euganean Hills (Padua), Italy. During fruitful informal after-dinner discussions among Potential Organizers the Program of the 2023 On-site PDM3 was almost designed, but it will be circulated in summer 2022. Anyhow, you are invited to fix the dates in your agenda from Thursday March 28 to Friday March 31, 2023. In this report, beside the 2022 On-site PDM3 program and the last-minute abstracts, the Emails of all attendees are listed, together with some of the messages that were sent to thank the local organizers. For now, please, submit Communications to the European Journal of Translational Myology, PAGEpress, Pavia, Italy (Link to:https://pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/about/submissions) and Original Articles or Reviews to the Journal Diagnostics, MDPI, Basel, Swiss (Link to: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/instructions). Both journals will host PDM3 Special Sections and will provide 50% discount on the editorial processing fees to the first 15 accepted typescripts.

We invite all EJTM authors and readers to join us to the 2023 On-site PDM3 hoping that it the will be even more successful than the events of recent years.[1-5]

Dear Ugo,

Safely back from the impressive Padua Days we once more like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to take part in the event. We felt the combination of such high internationality on a high scientific level with the family atmosphere is really unique. Congratulations on this successful event and again many thanks for integrating us into the community.We hope you will find some rest for recovery after the intensive days.

With warmest regards.

Dear Ugo,

GRAZIE MILLE for your great event and your kind cooperation! Hope to continue participating in your Annual PDM3! As I am in the World Dental Federation, Riccardo and I can invite dentists from all over the world for your Dental Session who work in the functional field (muscles of head and neck, and now full body regarding the medical position of dentists).

Have a nice evening!

All the best wishes,

Dear Ugo!

I want to thank you by all my heart for your embracing welcome of me and my wife. As you know, me and Paolo are very close friends from the first day of our cooperation in Iceland and I have all the time had such a great pleasure working with him and all the clever Italian students. This congress was in general very interesting especially the results from our studies. We have still a lot more to do and therefore we will meet again „next time“! Our stay at the Hotel Terme delle Nazioni was very nice and the distance was of no problem. I hope you are well and recovering after all the heavy work that needs for such a meeting to be successful as this one was!

Sincerely yours,

Dear Ugo!

Thank you for the excellent organization of the congress bringing together basic science, clinical work and international cooperation. Very impressive was your demonstration that immobilization and inactivity lead to early short-term degeneration of the neuromuscular junction. But you pointed out the importance of the early onset of the translational therapy to avoid/counteract denervation and muscle wasting.

What an amazing conference, the science presented was and is at its best! Thanks to Professor Carraro for his leadership in making this meeting happen. Thanks to the local organizing staff and Christa Stout from the Myology Institute to make the program run pretty much flawless. Thanks for tolerating my daughter Arianne Leeuwenburgh playing with Benjamin Mackey in the dining area. They certainly had a blast. Hope to see many of the speakers and attendees next year between Thursday March 28 to Friday March 31, 2023.

Warmest Regards.

Dear Sandra and dear Ugo,

After beeing at the Abano Rehabilitation Meeting as one of my first conferences in 1985 and participating in most of the Padua muscle days since, I missed them a lot during the forced break of the past 2 years. Thank you very much for reactivating them On-site with the first window of opportunity and congratulation for the great success. It has been a special highlight, I am sure for all of us, to meet again in this multidisciplinary format for intellectual exchange and optimistic grows of new ideas and joint intentions, in the unique substrate of cultural heritage and hospitality. The Padua-spirit was back present with the first minute, and to be enjoyed throughout the five creative days. Many thanks again and looking forward to the next edition in Spring 2023,

The On-site Padua Muscle Days 2022 meeting, organized by the University of Padua in collaboration with the University of Florida, was an excellent event from multiple points of view. This meeting, thanks to its vast program, attracted some of the most renowned scientists in the fields of muscle biology, physiology, pathophysiology, therapy and rehabilitation offering incredible research ideas and creating the opportunity to develop prime collaborations. Organizing the conference in a hotel rather than in a convention center allowed the organizers to group all attendees in the same venue for the entire duration of the meeting offering further networking opportunities. Furthermore, opening the conference at the Aula Magna of the University of Padua was very scenic and for the speakers was exciting to have the opportunity to present their work where Galileo, almost 400 years ago, was presenting his results and theories inspiring scholars such as Copernicus. I really thank the organizer for the incredible opportunity.

Dear Ugo,

Just wanted to say thank you! For the wonderful people you have gathered together, for the great scientific discussions, the food, the welcoming venue. It was a great opportunity for me (thanks to Gillian too!) to talk about our latest work and exchange with such an extraordinary international community of muscle experts. Being back to this conference where I started knowing the muscle field, reminded me of the passion that was shared and pushed me to continue investigating the muscle and its fascinating regulatory mehanisms. This event made me appreaciate even more the value of live meetings and I am sure it will be the seed of many great collaborations.

Thank you again for all your infatigable energy and efforts to organize the Padua Muscle Days.

With the warmest regards,