Seminars
The Center for Cardiovascular Sciences offers seminars throughout the year.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Date Speaker Topic 11/5/08 Candice D. Fike, M.D. Professor Pediatrics, Neonatology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Chronic Hypoxia-induced Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn: In Search of the Right Rescue Package 1/21/09 Neil Hogg Professor Biophysics ResearchInstitute Medical College of Wisconsin TBA 2/9/09 Stefan Feske, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology Department of Pathology NYU Medical Center TBA
PAST SEMINARS
Date Speaker Topic 10/22/08 Donald L. Gill, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA Novel Transduction Mechanisms Controlling Calcium Signals 9/10/08 Edward Morrisey, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania Medicine and Cell/Developmental Biology Novel Roles for Wnt Signaling in Cardiac Development and Progenitor Allocation 8/4/08 Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Biosciences and Technology Texas A&M University Houston, TX SRF Micromanaging Cardiac Differentiation 6/19/08 Yunfu Sun, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Project Scientist University of California at San Diego Smooth Muscle Differentiation from Neural Crest 6/11/08 Albert B. Reynolds, Ph.D. Professor Vanderbilt University Medical Center Roles for p120-Catenin in Development and Cancer 5/22/08 Hiroaki Kume, Ph.D. Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine. Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Role of Rho-kinase in Airway Smooth Muscle Function as a Therapeutic Target for Asthma 5/19/08 Jianzhong Shen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation Migration from Endothelial ADP Signaling to MKP-1-Mediated Atherosclerosis 5/14/08 Ganesh K. Kumar Professor Department of Medicine University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Activation of Post-Translational Mechanism by Intermittent Hypoxia: Role of Oxidative Stress 3/12/08 Susan Gilbert, Ph.D. Professor and Head Biology Department RPI Mitotic Kinesin Eg5: A Most Unusual Molecular Motor 2/19/08 Yuka Morikawa, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Cell and Molecular Biology Tulane University Regulation of Cardiovascular Development by Hand bHLH Transcription Factors 1/29/08 Brenda Russell, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Medicine and Bioengineering University of Illinois at Chicago Cardiac Stem and Myocyte Adaptation to the Physical Microenvironment 1/25/08 Jiliang Zhou, Ph.D. Research Associate Dept. Cellular and Integrative Physiology Indiana University Yin and Yang Modulation of Myocardin Function 12/05/07 James W. Putney, Jr., Ph.D. Chief, Calcium Regulation Section Laboratory of Signal Transduction National Institute of Health – Environmental Health Sciences Novel Mechanisms for Receptor-Regulated Calcium Influx 10/24/07 William Aird, M.D. Associate Professor Department of Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of Hematology-Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Phenotypic Heterogeneity of the Endothelium 9/19/07 George C. Wellman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Suppression of Voltage-Dependent Potassium Channels and Cerebral Vasospasm 8/24/07 Xu Peng, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Medicine Cornell University Role and Mechanisms of Focal Adhesion Kinase in Heart Development and Hypertrophy 8/20/07 Sean Didion, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Internal Medicine Cardiology Division University of Iowa Oxidative and Inflammatory Mechanisms Associated with Cerebral Vascular Dysfunction 8/13/07 Yong Xia, M.D. Associate Professor Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Ohio State University Nitric Oxide Synthase: Molecular Regulation and Novel Function 8/1/07 Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D. Research Investigator Department of Biological Chemistry University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Intracellular Stress Signaling in Health and Disease: From Lymphopoiesis to Inflammation 7/20/07 Guilio Romeo, M.D. Investigator Schepens Eye Research Institute Boston, MA A Target-Discovery Approach to Diabetic Vascular Disease: From a Phage to Profilin and Back to STAT3 7/11/07 Ouliana Ziouzenkova, Ph.D. Instructor in Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital 6/11/07 Janine Santos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Pharmacology and Physiology UMDNJ-NJ Medical School Newark, NJ Telomerase and Mitochondria: Friend or Foe? 5/21/07 Souad Rahmauni, Ph.D. Senior Scientist FNRS Department of Immunology, University of Liege Liege, Belgium VHR Dual-Specific Phosphatase: From Immune Synapse to Cell Division 05/03/07 Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Biology UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Guidance Cues During Vascular Patterning
Department of Pharmacology
University of Vermont
Cardiovascular Medicine
“Vitamin A Metabolism is a Novel Target for the Regulation of Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome”