CVI Seminar Series 2008 - 2009
Time / Location: Wednesdays, 4PM to 5PM in
Room 253 BRB 2/3, unless noted.
Contact: Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002.
Past Seminars: 2008 / 2007 / 2006
Full seminar schedule resumes Fall 2008…
2008 Seminars
2008 Past Seminars
| 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 Past 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
2006 Seminars
December 6, 2006
CVI Science Seminar
Cardiac Stem Cells. . . Real Hope or Just Hype?
Dr. Amit N. Patel, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Director, Center for Cardiac Cell Therapy
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
4 PM, Room 1412, BRB II/III
Information: Nina Maschak, 215-573-8002
November 29, 2006
CVI / CHOP Research Affinity Group Seminar
Identification of Very Small Embryonic Like (VSEL) Stem Cells in Adult Bone Marrow and Cord Blood
Dr. Mariusz Ratajczak, University of Louisville, Brown Cancer Center
Professor and Director, Stem Cell Biology Program
4 PM, Room 1412, BRB II/III
Information: Eunice Brooks, 215-590-3575
November 1, 2006
CVI Science Seminar
Myocardial Perfusion by Computed Tomography Angiography
João Lima, Johns Hopkins, Director of Cardiovascular Imaging
Associate Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and Epidemiology
Co-director, Project 2, D.W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center
4 PM, Room 1412 BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
October 18, 2006
CVI Science Seminar
Measurement of Reverse Cholesterol Transport in Animal Models and Humans:
Flux Through Pathways as Biomarkers for Drug Recovery and Development
Marc Hellerstein, MD, Ph.D
Professor of Human Nutrition, UC Berkeley
Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism UC San Francisco
4 PM, Room 1412 BRB II/III
Information: Linda Watts, 215-573-4176
October 11, 2006
CVI Science Seminar
Mechanisms of Regression in Atherosclerosis
Edward Fisher, NYU Medical Center, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.D.
Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology
4 PM, Room 1412 BRB II/III
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
October 4, 2006
CVI / CHOP Research Affinity Group Seminar
CIB1, a multifunctional regulator of platelet integrin activation, angiogenesis and more
Leslie Parise, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
4 PM, Room 1412, BRB II/III
Information: Eunice Brooks, 215-590-3575
September 20, 2006
CVI / PMI Seminar: Cardiac Progenitor Cells
Dr. Pieter A. Doevendans
Professor, Department of Cardiology, Heart Lung Center Utrecht
UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
3 PM, CRB Austrian Auditorium
Information: Carolyn Phillips, 215-573-9706
September 20, 2006
CVI Recruitment Seminar
Genetic Epidemiological Study of Metabolic Syndrome and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Weihong Tang, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota [ PDF ]
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
4 - 5PM, Room 1412 BRB II/III
Information: Nicole Jones, 215-898-0901
September 13, 2006
CVI Science Seminar
Challenges in the Genomics of Coronary Artery Disease
Eric Topol, Case Western University
4 - 5 PM, Austrian Auditorium, CRB
Information: Denice Susini, 215-662-3140
September 13, 2006
CHOP Cardiovascular Research Affinity Group Seminar:
Integrin signaling in tumor progression
Tatiana Byzova, Ph.D., Dept. of Molecular Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic
Center for Thrombosis and Vascular Biology | 4PM, 123C Abramson Research Center – CHOP
August 23, 2006
CVI Recruitment Seminar
The mKAP Signal Transduction Complex: A Master Integrator of Pro-Hypertronic Cardiac Signaling
Michael Seth Kapiloff, MD. Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, Oregon Health & Science University
1PM, Room 252 BRB II/III
Information: Carolyn Phillips, 215-573-9306
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