Centre for Cardiovascular Science Seminars - 2011-2012

Tuesday 25th October 2011

Title: Trials and tribulations of translational medicine: lessons from endothelin biology?

Speaker: Professor David Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Tuesday 1st November 2011

Title: The Virtual Physiologic Human (VPH) project

Speakers: Prof Rod Hose & Dr Pat Lawford, University of Sheffield

Tuesday 8th November 2011

Title: The role of mitochondria in reperfusion injury - a pore way for the heart to die

Speaker: Prof Andrew Halestrap, University of Bristol

Tuesday 15th November 2011

Title: The impact of an infarct scar on the electrical activity of the heart

Speaker: Prof Godfrey Smith, University of Glasgow

Tuesday 22nd November 2011

Title: Pathophysiological roles of Aldosterone and the mineralocorticoid receptor: Novel paradigms

Speaker: Prof Frederic Jaisser, Centre de Recherches Biomédicales des Cordeliers

Tuesday 29th November 2011

Title: The turnover of fat and fat cells in human adipose tissue

Speaker: Prof Peter Arner, Karolinska Institutet

Tuesday 6th December 2011

Title: Growing up and growing old: effects of early life conditions on late life deterioration

Speaker: Prof Pat Monaghan, University of Glasgow

Tuesday 13th December 2011

Title: Phospholemman-induced regulation of Na/K ATPase in the heart - From normal cardiac physiology to disease

Speaker: Dr Davor Pavlovic, King's College London

Tuesday 20th December 2011

Title: X-nuclei Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ischaemic Stroke

Speaker: Dr Friedrich Wetterling, Head of the RF Methods and Imaging Group, Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim

Tuesday 10th January 2012

Title: Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome

Speaker: Prof Tony Vidal-Puig, University of Cambridge

Tuesday 17th January 2012

Title: The Discovery of Novel Anti-inflammatory Glucocorticoids

Speaker: Dr Keith Biggadike, GlaxoSmithKline

Tuesday 24th January 2012

Title: Fatty acid-induced insulin resistance and inflammatory signalling in skeletal muscle

Speaker: Prof Hari Hundal, University of Dundee

Tuesday 31st January 2012

Title: Your hormones is fighting with your capillaries...Glucocorticoids, arteries and that enzyme

Speaker: Dr Patrick Hadoke, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 7th February 2012

Title: The syndrome of preterm birth: unravelling the pathways

Speaker: Prof Raheela Khan, University of Nottingham

Thursday 24th February 2012

Title: Is Dementia Prevention a Realistic Target for 2020?

Speaker: Dr Craig Ritchie, Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London

Change of venue:

Tuesday 28th February 2012

Title: Mineralocorticoid Receptor Mutations in Human Disease

Speaker: Dr Maria-Christina Zennaro, Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre

Tuesday 6th March 2012

Title: Feto-Maternal Immune Cross talk: Short- and Long-Term Consequences for Mother and Child

Speaker: Professor Petra Arck, University of Hamburg

Tuesday 27th March 2012

Title: Visualising Complexity: creating digital images for the human visual system

Speaker: Prof Nick Holliman, Durham University

Thursday 29th March 2012 - Additional seminar

Title: Mechanism and treatment of calcium-triggered ventricular arrhythmia

Speaker: Professor Bjorn Knollmann, Vanderbilt University

Tuesday 1st May 2012

Title: Plant sterol esters as diet supplement to reduce cholesterol levels

Speaker: Dr Oliver Weingärtner, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes

Tuesday 8th May 2012

Title: Renal endothelin: from mouse to man and back again

Speaker: Prof Donald Kohan, University of Utah

Tuesday 22nd May 2012 - POSTPONED

Title: tbc

Speaker: John Mullins

POSTPONED

Tuesday 29th May 2012

Title: The complex world of GPCRs: what the class C receptors tell us

Speaker: Professor Jean-Philippe Pin, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle