Seminars

The Center for Cardiovascular Sciences offers seminars throughout the year.

UPCOMING SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Topic
6/8/09	David N. Cornfield, M.D. Professor, Director Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and Director of Pediatric Intensive Care Stanford University School of Medicine	Developmental Regulation of Oxygen Sensing in the Lung

PAST SEMINARS

Date	Speaker	Topic
5/13/09	Rakesh Patel, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology University of Alabama at Birmingham	Role of the RBC – Nitric Oxide Axis in the Pathophysiology of Inflammatory Vascular Disease
4/8/09	Stefan Feske, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Pathology NYU Medical Center	Calcium Signals Through STIM and ORAI1 in Lymphocyte Activation and Disease
3/11/09	Trevor J. Shuttleworth, Ph.D. Professor Pharmacology and Physiology University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, NY	The Molecular Basis of Agonist-activated Ca2+ Entry
1/21/09	Neil Hogg, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biophysics Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin	S-Nitrosothiol Transport Insights into NO Signaling Mechanisms
11/05/08	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
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 Transduction Mechanisms Controlling Calcium Signals
08/04/08	Robert Schwartz, Ph.D. Director, Institute for Biosciences and Technology Texas A&M University Houston, TX	SRF Micromanaging Cardiac Differentiation
7/2/08	Shiyou Chen, DVM, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC	Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation from Neural Crest Cells
6/25/08	Antonio Paul-Florit, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes Baylor College of Medicine	De-Foaming the Foam Cell: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Atherosclerosis
06/19/08	Yunfu Sun, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Project Scientist University of California at San Diego	Cardiac Progenitors and Lineage Specification
6/11/08	Albert B. Reynolds, Ph.D. Professor Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Roles for p120-Catenin in Development and Cancer
6/19/08	Yunfu Sun, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Project Scientist University of California at San Diego	Smooth Muscle Differentiation from Neural Crest
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
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
5/22/08	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
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

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Seminars

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