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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.  

     
CVRC RETREAT 2009  
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA  
Thursday, September 17th  
     
Directions    
     
8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast  
     
Session 1    
Moderator: Zhong Wang, PhD  
     
9:00 - 9:15 AM Kenneth Chien, MD, PhD  
  Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH
  Welcome  
     
Keynote:    
9:15 - 10:15 AM Gary Ruvkun, PhD  
  Department of Molecular Biology, MGH
  The Small RNA Pathways of C. Elegans
     
10:15 - 10:30 AM Break  
     
Session 2    
Moderator: Paul Yu, MD  
     
10:30 - 11:00 AM Paul Huang, MD, PhD, FACC  
  Associate Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
  eNOS, Diabetes, and Metabolic Disease
     
11:00 - 11:30 AM Jesse Roberts, MD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH
  Dysregulated TGFbeta Signaling Contributes to Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in the Injured Developing Lung
     
11:30 - Noon Robert Levine, MD  
  Division of Cardiology, MGH
  Mitral Valve Disease: Underlying Mechanisms of Clinical Disorders
     
Noon - 2:00 PM Lunch + Poster Session  
     
Session 3    
Moderator: Chad Cowan, PhD  
     
2:00 - 2:30 PM Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH & The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  From DNA Sequence Variant to Lipoprotein Phenotype at a Novel Cholesterol and Myocardial Infarction Locus
     
     
2:30 - 3:00 PM Sean Wu, MD, PhD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  Progenitor Cells in Post-MI Cardiac Regeneration
     
Session 4 - Short Talks  
Moderator: Caroline Burns, PhD + Robert Gerszten, MD  
     
3:00 - 3:15 PM Steven Lubitz, MD  
  Ellinor Lab
  Additional Independent Susceptibility Markers for Atrial Fibrillation on Chromosome 4q25
     
3:15 - 3:30 PM Peter Schlueter, PhD  
  Peterson Lab  
  Small Molecule-Induced Destabilization of Primordial Germ Cell-Specific Transcriptions
     
3:30 - 3:45 PM Jeffrey Winterfield, MD  
  Milan Lab
  Stim1 Modulates Pacemaking and Contractility via Regulation of Calcium Stores in the Embryonic Heart
     
3:45 - 4:00 PM Rahul Deo, MD, PhD  
  Division of Cardiology
  Interpreting Metabolic Profiles using Unbaised Pathway Models
     
4:00 - 4:30 PM Break  
     
Session 5    
Moderator: Jordan Shin, MD  
     
4:30 - 5:00 PM David Milan, MD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH  
  On the QT: Genetic and Chemical Investigation of Cardiac Repolarization
     
5:00 - 5:30 PM Joanna Yeh, PhD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH  
  To the Discovery of Novel AML Therapeutics and Beyond
     
5:30 - 6:00 PM Geoffrey Burns, PhD  
  Cardiovascular Research Center, MGH
  TGFβ Signaling is Required for Secondary Heart Field Development
     
6:00 - 6:10 PM Announcement of Best Abstract Winner
     
6:10 - 6:15 PM Concluding Remarks  

 

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