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.
Building 149 is a secure building therefore please contact Lauren Mineo if you do not have a Partners photo identification card and would like to attend.
FALL 2012 - Spring 2013
September 11
David Bader, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology
Vanderbilt University
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD
'Mesothelia in development and repair'
September 25
Takashi Mikawa, PhD
Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD
'Biorhythmicity Development"
October 9
Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD
Director, Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital
Host: Ken Bloch
‘GI Regulation of Metabolic Function’
October 16
Annual CVRC Retreat
Norton Woods Conference Center, Cambridge
October 23
Michal Laniado Schwartzman, PhD
Professor & Chair of Pharmacology
New York Medical College
Host: Manu Buys, PhD/Ken Bloch, MD
'20-HETE: A Key Lipid Autacoid in the Regulation of Blood Pressure'
October 30
Steven Lubitz, MD, MPH
Physician/Cardiology
MGH
Host: Ken Bloch, MD
'Atrial fibrillation: bridging genetic discoveries and clinical associations'
November 13
Jared Rutter, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Univeristy of Utah
Host: Randy Peterson, PhD
'Good and Bad Growth: The Virtues and Vices of Mitochondria and Metabolism'
November 27
Michael Regnier, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Host: Ken Bloch, MD / Rajeev Malhotra, MD
Supercharging the Heart: Elevating 2 deoxy-ATP to increase myocardial performance
December 4
Da-Zhi Wang, PhD
Associate Professor
Cardiovascular Research
Children's Hospital Boston/HMS
Host: Zhong Wang, PhD
'microRNAs in cardiovascular development and remodeling'
December 11
R. William Caldwell, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Georgia Health Sciences University
Host: Paul Huang, MD, PhD
Role of arginase in diabetes-induced vascular dysfunction
January 22
Pieter Doevendans, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Cardiology
Chairman and Medical Manager
Division Heart and Lungs, UMC Utrecht
Professor of Translational Cardiology
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD
Cardiac Stem Cells Optimal for Regeneration
January 29
Sami F. Noujaim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Tufts Medical Center
Host: Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
The Acetycholine Sensitive Inward Rectifier
Potassium Current (IKACh) in Atrial Fibrillation
February 12
Richard H. Karas, MD, PhD
Professor, Tufts Univ School of Medicine
Vice-Chairman of Medicine
Director, Preventive Cardiology Center
Co-Director, Women's Heart Center
Associate Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Host: Ken Bloch , MD
‘Estrogen Signaling in the Vasculature’
Mar 5 SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE
12 NOON at Simches with Lunch
Robin P Choudhury MA, DM, FACC
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Director Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre
University of Oxford
Host: Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD
'Leukocyte mimetic microparticles for quantitative in vivo molecular imaging: inflammation to ischemic memory'
March 26
Gordon Tomaselli, MD
Professor and Chief of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Host: David Milan, MD
Cardiac Na channel structure and regulation in health and disease
April 2
Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Deputy Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Director, Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease
Co-Director, Training Program in Myocardial Biology
Standford School of Medicine
Host: Sekar Kathiresan, MD
'Connected: How biological networks help us understand disease
and design new therapies'
April 9
Russell (Chip) Norris, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Host: Mark Lindsay, MD, PhD
Shaping the Heart: Planar Cell Polarity and Hippo Pathway Activities in Cardiac Development and Disease
April 16
Jeffrey R. Fineman, MD
Professor in Residence
CVRI Investigator
UCSF
Host: Jay Roberts, MD
Early endothelial dysfunction secondary to increased pulmonary blood flow:
lessons learned from an animal model of congenital heart disease
April 23
Ivan Moskowitz, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
The University of Chicago
Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology
Host: Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
Gene regulatory networks in the cardiac conduction system
April 30
Robert S. Kass, PhD
Vice Dean for Research
Alumni & Hosack Professor of Pharmacology & Chair
Columbia University
Host: David Milan, MD
Molecular Pharmacology of Cardiac Ion Channels: Disease-Associated
Mutations and Patient-Specific Genetics
May 7
Yan Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
CVRC - MGH
Host: Ken Bloch, MD
Discovering Cardioprotective Small Molecules with Zebrafish
May 21
Thomas P. Cappola, MD, ScM
Associate Professor
Penn Cardiovascular Institute
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD
Integrative genomics of human heart failure
June 4
Jorge Plutzky, MD
Associate Professor
Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Host: Shriram Nallamshetty, MD
June 18
Mark Mercola, Ph.D.
Professor, Sanford Children’s Health Center
Director, Muscle Development and Regeneration Program
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla
Host: Ibrahim Domian, MD, PhD
Hunt for New Drug Targets for Myocardial Regeneration and Protection
Sep 17
Victor Darley-Usmar, PhD,
Professor, Deptartment of Pathology
Director, Center for Free Radical Biology
University of Alabama
Host: Paul Huang, MD, PHD
Nov 5
Bradford Hill, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Diabetes and Obesity Research
University of Kentucky
Host: Paul Huang, MD, PhD
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