Retreat:

Each September, the Cardiovascular Research Center hosts a retreat. CVRC faculty, post-docs, graduate students, staff and collaborators take this opportunity to build connections between various labs and present their research findings from the previous year at both scientific talks and a poster session.  

               2012 CVRC RETREAT - AGENDA
                   Tuesday, October 16

8:30-9:00                 Coffee/Pastries

Session 1               
Moderator:  Randy Peterson, PhD

9:00-9:15            Opening Remarks
                          G. William Dec, MD
                          Chief, Cardiology Division

9:15-9:45             Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH
                          Harnessing Genetics to Improve Our Understanding of Blood Pressure

9:45-10:15            Robert Levine, MD
                          Of Valves and Ventricles: Improving Cardiac Adaptation in Ischemic
                          Mitral Regurgitation

10:15-10:45           AM Break

Session 2               
Moderator: Sekar Kathiresan, MD

10:45-11:15         Mark Lindsay, MD, PhD
                         Insight into the Pathogenesis of Aortic Aneurysm through the
                        Investigation of Hereditary TGF-b Vasculopathies

11:15-12:15        Keynote Speaker
                          Adam E. Cohen, PhD
                           Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and of Physics
                          Harvard University
                         Voltage Indicating Proteins for Cardiac Electrophysiology

12:15-1:30            Lunch - Poster Session – Jeopardy

Session 3             Fellows’ Short Talks
Moderator: Robert Gerszten, MD

1:30-1:45            Pankaj Arora, MD (Newton-Cheh, T. Wang, Bloch Labs)
                         Dietary Salt and Genetic Regulation of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide

1:45-2:00             Sunanda Baliga, PhD (Yeh Lab)
                          ephb4 Regulates Notch Signaling During Zebrafish Angiogenesis

2:00-2:15             Ron Do, PhD (Kathiresan Lab)
                         Exome Sequencing as a Tool to Understand the Inherited Basis for
                         Myocardial Infarction, a Common Complex Disease

2:15-2:30             Chase Kessinger, PhD (Jaffer Lab)
                          Statin Therapy Improves Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Resolution While
                         Attenuating Thrombus Inflmmation In Vivo: Assessment by Multiplexed
                         Intravital Molecular Imaging

2:30-2:45             Vincenzo Macri, PhD (Ellinor Lab)
                         Common Genetic Variation in SCN10a is Associated with
                         Channel Inactivation and the PR interval

2:45-3:00             Nikolaos Psychogios, PhD(Gerszten Lab)
                          2-Aminoadipic Acid is a Novel Biomarker of Diabetes Risk and
                         Modulates Glucose Homeostasis

3:00-3:30             PM Break

Session 4               
Moderator: Caroline Burns, PhD

3:30-4:00             Paul Huang, MD, PHD
                          iPS-derived Cardiomyocytes as Models for Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity

4:00-4:30             Joanna Yeh, PhD
                          From Gene-Editing Nucleases to Metabolic Disease Models in Zebrafish

4:30-5:00             Antonis Armoundas, PhD
                          Oscillations in Life for the Basic Scientist,the Clinician and the Bicurious

5:00-5:30             Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
                          Using Genetics to Identify Novel Pathways for Atrial Fibrillation

5:30                    Abstract Winner Announcement/Concluding Remarks

Previous Years:  2011 Agenda l 2010 Agenda l 2009 Agenda  l   2008 Agenda   l   2007 Agenda   l   2006 Agenda


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