The Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital


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Seminar Series:

During the academic year the CVRC invites distinguished local, regional, national, and global investigators to present their work for the seminar series each Tuesday. The selected speakers draw upon a range of topics related to the research at the Cardiovascular Research Center and allow for a period of scientific discussion. Light refreshments are served.

Seminars are held Tuesday at 4:00PM in the CVRC Lecture Hall (Room 4501) Bldg. 149, 13th Street., 4th Floor at the Charlestown Navy Yard, unless otherwise noted.

MGH security requires a RSVP for entrance to the lecture hall if you do not have a Partners photo identification card. Please email Lauren Tse if you plan to attend.

Fall 2011

September 27
David Pearse, MD

Yale University
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins
Host: Emmanuel Buys, PhD
"Janus-Faced Signaling of cGMP in Acute Lung Injury"


October 4
Ian Scott, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto - The Hospital for Sick Children
Host: Caroline Burns, PhD
"Cardiovascular progenitor development in zebrafish"

October 25
Jeffrey Amack, PhD

Assistant Professor
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Host: Caroline Burns, PhD
Genes and Mechanisms that Control Cardiac Laterality

Spring 2012

December 6
Min Li, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University
Host: David Milan, MD
"Change in Heartbeat: When Vast Chemical Diversity Meets Ion Channels"

December 13
Randall L. Rasmusson, PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
University of Buffalo, SUNY
Host: David Milan, MD
"Markov Models of Channel Gating For Action Potential Reconstruction"

February 14
Charles 'Chaz' Hong, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vanderbilt Univeristy School of Medicine
Host: Ken Bloch, MD
'Novel cell biological insights from chemical
genetics of embryonic development
'

March 6
James F. Martin, MD, PhD

Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD

April 3
Mark T. Nelson, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology
University of Vermont
Host: Sharon Cawley, PhD/Ken Bloch, MD

April 10
Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Utah
Host: David Milan, MD

CANCELLED: April 24
Brad Davidson, PhD

University of Arizona
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD




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