CVI Seminar Series
Time: Wednesdays, 4PM to 5PM
Location: Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held in Room 253 BRB II/III.
Contact: Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002.
Past Seminars: 2009 / 2008 / 2007
2009 - 2010 Seminars
| November 11 |
"Vascular Guidance Signaling Pathway"
Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D.
HA and Edna Benning Endowed Professor in Medicine and Cardiology
Director, Molecular Medicine Progrram
University of Utah
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics |
November 18
|
No Seminar / AHA Conference |
November 25
|
No Seminar / Thanksgiving |
| December 2 |
"Topic To Be Announced"
William C. Sessa, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine |
| December 9 |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Bruce Gelb, M.D.
The Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Center for Molecular Cardiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
December 16
|
No Seminar |
December 23
|
No Seminar |
December 30
|
No Seminar |
January 6
|
No Seminar |
January 13
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
W. Jonathan Lederer, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Medical Biotechnology Center
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
University of Maryland School of Medicine |
January 20
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Ann Marie Schmidt, M.D.
Gerald and Janet Carrus Professor of Surgical Sciences
Department of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center |
January 27
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Douglas W. Losordo, M.D.
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and
Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
February 3
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Ira Tabas, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Anatomy and Cell Biology
Division of Molecular Medicine
Columbia University |
February 10
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Speaker to be announced |
February 17
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Roger J. Hajjar, M.D.
Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
Arthur & Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
February 24
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Nehal N. Mehta, MD, MSCE, FACP, FACC
Preventive Cardiology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Scholar, Clinical Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
March 3
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Patrick Seale, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism &
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania |
| March 10 |
No Seminar - IDOM Symposium » |
March 17
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Mark Ginsberg, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego |
March 24
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Michael Mendelsohn, M.D.
Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Center, New England Medical Center
Elisa Kent Mendelsohn Professorship of Medicine
Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry
Tufts University School of Medicine
|
March 31
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Speaker to be announced |
April 7
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Arthur J. Moss, M.D.
Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
Heart Research Follow-up Program
University of Rochester Medical Center |
| April 14 |
No Seminar - ITMAT Symposium » |
April 21
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
John Hogenesch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Interim Director, Penn Center of Bioinformatics
Associate Director, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute
Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
April 28
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Speaker to be announced |
May 5
Location not yet assigned |
"Cardiac Melanocyte Electrical Excitability and Atrial Arrhythmias"
Vickas Patel, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Molecular Arrhythmia Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
May 12
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.
Scientific Director and Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
May 19
Location not yet assigned |
"Topic To Be Announced"
Speaker to be announced |
May 26
Note Location: BRB Auditorium and Lobby |
Penn CVI 3rd Annual Symposium » |
2009 Past Seminars
November 5
Note Time:
Noon to 1PM |
Special Seminar
"Small Molecule Targeting a Native Progenitor Pool to Enhance Cardiac Repair"
Jay Schneider, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine - Cardiology
Southwestern Medical School
UT Southwestern Medical Center |
November 4
Note Location:
Austrian Auditorium
Ground Floor CRB
| "Transcriptional Control of Cardiovascular Development"
Brian Black, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Director
Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco |
October 28
|
No Seminar |
| October 21 |
"Next generation of ion channel subunits and channel modulation"
Geoffrey Pitt, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Ion Channel Research Unit
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Neurobiology
Duke University School of Medicine |
October 14
|
No Seminar |
| October 7 |
"A Novel Toll-like Receptor Signaling Complex Promotes Sterile Inflammation in Atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease"
Kathryn J. Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School |
| September 30 |
"Inflammatory Proteases & Myocyte Anoikis: Potential Mechanisms and Implication in Cardioprotection"
Abdel Karim Sabri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physiology; Cardiovascular Research Center
Temple University Medical School |
| June 10 |
Cancelled
"Biological Tissue Repair: Tearing Pages Out of Nature’s Playbook"
Dr. Douglas Losordo,
Northwestern University, Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
Director, Program in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine » |
| June 3 |
Cancelled |
| May 27 |
Cancelled due to flight conditions!
"Electrical patterning of the developing heart: functional fate mapping"
Dr. Calum MacRae,
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard University » |
May 20
Location: BRB Room 253 |
"Towards a Metabolomics Platform for Cardiovascular Disease"
Dr. Robert Gerszten,
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard University » |
| May 13 |
2nd Annual Penn CVI Symposium » |
| April 22 |
Cancelled |
| April 15 |
Cancelled - ITMAT Symposium » |
April 21 - Tuesday
Room 252, BRB II/III |
Special CVI Seminar
"Therapy for Heart Failure and Sudden Cardiac Death: Fixing the Leak in RyR Channels"
Dr. Andrew R. Marks
Wu Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Founding Director, Helen and Clyde Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons » |
| April 8 |
Cancelled - Passover |
April 1
Room 253, BRB II/III |
"Molecular Controls of Arterial Specification"
Dr. Michael Simons, Chief
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine » |
March 25
Room 253, BRB II/III |
"Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy - New Insights into Disease Pathogenesis"
Dr. Jeffrey Saffitz, Chairman
Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School » |
| March 18 |
Cancelled |
| March 11 |
Cancelled - IDOM Kroc Lecture » |
| March 4 |
Cancelled |
| February 25 |
Cancelled |
February 18
Room 251, BRB II/III |
"Biased Signaling by G Protein-Coupled Receptors"
Dr. Howard Rockman, Chief
Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University Medical Center » |
February 11
Room 1412, BRB II/III |
"When is Dead Really Dead?"
Dr. Lance Becker, Director
Penn Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania »
Popular Science Article: "Freezing the Heart to Save the Life" » |
February 4
Room 253, BRB II/III
| "Fibrosis and Arrhythmia Substrates: Role of TGFbeta"
Dr. Jeffrey Olgin, Chief
Cardiac Electrophysiology, UC San Francisco » |
January 28
Room 253, BRB II/III
| "Biomarkers in the Dallas Heart Study"
Dr. James De Lemos, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Cardiology Division »
About the Dallas Heart Study » |
| January 21
| Cancelled |
| January 14
| Cancelled |
| January 7
| Cancelled |
2008 Seminars
| December 17
| Preventing Cardiovascular Disease Through Biomarker Discovery:
Is Personalized Medicine Really Ready for Prime Time? (audiocast) »
Dr. Daniel Levy,
Director, Framingham Heart Study, NHLBI » |
| December 10
| Cancelled |
| December 3
| "Vascular Stability and Guidance"
Dr. Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D.,
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah Medical Center » |
| November 26
| Cancelled - Thanksgiving |
| November 19
| "Genetics of Vascular Remodeling"
Dr. Santhi Ganesh, Assistant Clinical Investigator, Nabel Lab, NHGRI / NHLBI / NIH » |
| November 12
| Cancelled - AHA Scientific Sessions |
| October 29
| "Genetic Basis of Coronary Artery Disease: Recent Progress"
Dr. Nilesh Samani, British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology,
Department Head, Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester » |
October 9
1PM BRB Auditorium
|
Special CDB / CVI Seminar
"The Regulation of Myogenic Progenitor Cell Fate by Pax Genes"
Dr. Margaret Buckingham
Director of Developmental Biology
Pasteur Institute » |
| October 8
| Cancelled |
| June 18
| Regulation of Myocardial Contractility by Urotensin II
Dr. Kenneth B. Margulies
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Research Director, Heart Failure/Transplantation »
CVI Program Unit Administrator, Myocyte Biology/Heart Failure » |
June 11
Cancelled -
To Be Rescheduled!
| Noonan Syndrome and Related Disorders:
Valve Disease, HCM and the RAS signaling pathway
Dr. Bruce Gelb
The Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Center for Molecular Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
June 4
Location:
Room 252, BRB II/III
| Large-scale Candidate Gene Association with Human Heart Failure
Dr. Thomas Cappola
Director, Heart Failure Clinical Research, University of Pennsylvania |
| May 28 |
First Annual Penn CVI Symposium » |
| May 21
| To Be Rescheduled / Date Pending
Dr. Robert Gorman
Cardiovascular Surgery, Harrison Department of Surgical Research, University of Pennsylvania |
| May 14
| The Nieman-Pick C Pathway: A Key Regulator of Cholesterol Homeostasis
Dr. Daniel S. Ory
Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Research Center,
Center for Cardiovascular Research, Associate Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine |
| May 7
| TODAY'S SEMINAR RESCHEDULED for JUNE 4
Large-scale Candidate Gene Association with Human Heart Failure
Dr. Thomas Cappola
Director, Heart Failure Clinical Research, University of Pennsylvania |
| April 30 |
No Seminar |
April 23
Location: Room 251, BRB 2/3 |
AMP-kinase: Conductor of the Cardiac Stress Response Orchestra
Dr. Lawrence H. Young
Director, Cardiac Metabolism Research Program
Yale University Medical School |
April 16
Location: Room 251, BRB 2/3 |
"Engineered Heart Tissue for Target Validation and Cardiac Repair"
Dr. Thomas Eschenhagen
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology,
University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany |
April 9
Location: Room 1412, BRB 2/3
| "Progression of Atherosclerotic Disease and Vulnerable Plaque"
Dr. Renu Virmani
Cardiac Pathologist, CV Path Institute, Bethesda, MD |
| April 2 |
No Seminar |
| March 26
| Cancelled |
| March 19 |
Special Penn CVI / CHOP Seminar
"Identification of Proteins with Desired Functions from the Proteomes of Human and Model Organisms"
Rihe Liu, Ph.D., Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina
Location: Abramson Research Building, Conference Room 123-C, 4PM |
| March 12
| "Endothelial phenotype plasticity in patho-susceptible unstable flow regions of the cardiovascular system"
Dr. Peter Davies
Director, Institute for Medicine and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania |
March 5
Location: Room 251, BRB 2/3
| "Controlling Angiogenesis in Tumors - Vegf and Other Pathways"
Dr. Gavin Thurston
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
| February 27 |
"Recruiting Stem Cells to Injured Myocardium"
Dr. Richard T. Lee
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Professor, Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| February 20 |
No Seminar |
| February 13 |
No Seminar |
February 6
Location:
Room 251, BRB II/III |
"Looking for Fat in All the Wrong Places"
Dr. Jean Schaffer
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
Associate Director, Diabetes Research Training Center
Washington University School of Medicine |
| January 30 |
No Seminar |
| January 23 |
Cancelled - rescheduled March 26
|
January 16
Note Location:
Room 1412
BRB II/III |
HDL: Lipoprotein Particle at the Crossroads of Dyslipidemia, Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Stanley L. Hazen, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Section Head, Preventive Cardiology and Rehabilitation
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics |
January 9
Note Location:
Room 252,
BRB II/III |
Understanding the Inherited Basis for Blood Lipids and Myocardial Infarction
Dr. Sekar Kathiresan
Director, Preventive Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Affiliate, Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard |
2007 Seminars
| December 12
| Signaling in Caveolae Governing Endothelial Cell Phenotype
Dr. Philip Shaul
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Division of Pulmonary and Vascular Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
December 5
Cancelled - will be rescheduled in 2008
| Noonan Syndrome and Related Disorders:
Valve Disease, HCM and the RAS signaling pathway
Dr. Bruce Gelb
The Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Center for Molecular Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| November 14 |
Enhancing Stem Cell Engraftment and Enabling X-ray Visibility for Cardiovascular Regeneration Therapies
Dr. Dara Kraitchman
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University |
November 8
Special Note:
Thursday,
Noon - 1PM |
Special CVI Seminar
Potential and Risks of Stem Cell Therapy in the Heart
Dr. Bernd K. Fleischmann
Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology I
University of Bonn, Germany |
| October 24 |
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Genetics in Prospective Cohort Settings
Jennifer Pai, ScD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health |
| October 17
| An Integrative Genetics Approach to Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Aldons Lusis, Ph.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Cardiology |
| October 10 |
Concept, design and application of a 50K SNP array
for large scale genetic interrogation of cardiovascular disease cohorts
Brendan Keating, Ph.D, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Pharmacology,
Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics |
| September 26
| Cells for Prevention, Treatment and Cure of Cardiovascular Disease
Dr. Doris Taylor
Center for Cardiovascular Repair, University of Minnesota |
June 20, 2007
CVI Seminar
Obesity and Coronary Heart Disease: Pathways to Prevention
Eric B. Rimm, ScD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
4 PM, Room 1412, BRB II/III
Information: Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002
May 24, 2007
Special CVI Seminar
An Approach to Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
in Atherothrombosis and Vascular Inflammation
Dr. Roy Choudhury, MA, DM, MRCP, University of Oxford
Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Oxford Centre for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
» See "Vascular MRI"
1 PM, Room 251, BRB II/III
Information: Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002
May 16, 2007
CVI Seminar
Molecular Circuitry of Necrotic Cell Death:
Implications for Heart and Skeletal Muscle
Dr. Jeffery Molkentin, Ph.D, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
4 PM, Room Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
April 11, 2007
CVI / CHOP Research Affinity Group Seminar
Understanding Unconventional Mechanisms of Platelet Function
Dr. Zaverio M. Ruggeri, Scripps Research Institute
4 PM, Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Eunice Brooks, 215-590-3575
March 7, 2007
CVI Science Seminar
Duality of Death Signaling in Heart and Hematopoietic Disease
Dr. Gerald Dorn, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Hana Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Research
4 PM, Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
February 7, 2007
CVI Science Seminar
Degeneration and Regeneration in Myopathy
Dr. Beth McNally, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
Director, Institute for Cardiovascular Research / Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Lab
4 PM, Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
January 24, 2007
CVI / CHOP Research Affinity Group Seminar
Visualization of cytoplasmic structure reveals how platelets are produced
and how they regulate angiogenesis
Dr. Joseph Italiano, Harvard, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Hematology
4 PM, Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Eunice Brooks, 215-590-3575
January 12, 2007
CVI / Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar
Cardiomyogenesis: Roles for Embryonic Stem Cells
Dr. John Gearhart, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine,
Director, Stem Cell Program, Institute for Cell Engineering
11:30 AM, BRB Auditorium
Information: Carolyn Phillips, 215-573-9306
January 3, 2007
CVI Science Seminar
Noninvasive atherosclerotic plaque detection from anatomy to molecules
Dr. Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, FAHA, FACC, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology),
Center and Institute of Translational and Molecular Imaging
4 PM, Room 252, BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
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