CVS progress reports - Autumn/Winter 2011
The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm.
Thursday 15th December
Speaker 1: Kajal Manwani: Hepatic 11?-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type I and Atherosclerosis Risk
Speaker 2: Sophie Zhao: Investigating cell specialization and differentiation in mouse adrenal cortex
Chair: Shareen Forbes
Thursday 8th December
Speaker 1: Robert Hunter: A phenotype in the distal convoluted tubule in the syndrome of apparent mineralocorticoid excess
Speaker 2: Eva Zou: The effect of 11bHSD1 in liver fibrosis and inflammation
Chair: Nik Morton
Thursday 1st December
Speaker 1: Kathryn Wilson : Role of glucocorticoids on development of the cardiovascular system in zebrafish
Speaker 2: Zhenguang Zhang : Dissecting the role of myeloid cell 11beta-HSD1 in inflammation
Chair: Rebecca Reynolds
Thursday 24th December
Speaker 1: Chris White: Targeted 11b-HSD1 Deficiency Alters Heart Chamber Size But Not Contractility
Speaker 2: Anna Stefanska: : Renin secreting cells in the human fetal kidney co-express pericyte markers
Chair: Kerry McInnes
Thursday 17th November
Speaker 1: Rachel Verdon: Live, high resolution imaging of the developing zebrafish pronephros'
Chair: Paddy Hadoke
Thursday 10th November
Speaker 1: Mei Lye: Longitudinal studies on the role of 11BHSD1 in cognitive ageing
Speaker 2: Kirsten Rose: The use of fluorescence resonance energy transfer probes in molecular imaging
Chair: Megan Holmes
Thursday 3rd November
Speaker 1: Sebastian Pieperhoff: The complexity of heart muscle cell connecting structures
Speaker 2: James Baily: BHF CoRE funded Postgraduate Training in Rodent Pathology
Chair: Nik Morton
Thursday 27th October
Speaker 1: Robert Menzies: Control of blood pressure and renal function in angiotensin II dependent hypertension Location
Speaker 2: Natalie Homer: Using Mass Spectrometry in Clinical and Pre-clinical Research
Chair: Scott Webster
Thursday 20th October
Speaker 1: Lizzie Skinner : Endothelial outgrowth cells have an identical phenotype to umbilical vein endothelial cells
Speaker 2: Sophie Turban Rajaonah: 11-beta Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in pancreatic islets: a new role in beta-cell protectio
Chair: Mandy Drak
Thursday 13th October
Speaker: Tiina Kipari: Are the atheroprotective effects of 11β-HSD1 deficiency attributable to immune cells or somatic tissue?
Chair: Gillian Gray
Thursday 6th October
Speaker 1: Kim De Mora: Zebrafish heart organoculture: a new model to study regeneratio
Speaker 2: Abhijeet Choudhary : Heme oxygenase and type 2 diabetes
Chair: Martin Denvir
Thursday 29th September
Speaker 1: Ash Taylor: Nanoparticles: A role in neurodegenerative disease
Speaker 2: Gianfranco Matrone : Role of Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 in cardiomyocyte proliferation in zebrafish
Chair: Ruth Andrew
Thursday 22nd September
Speaker 1: Jennifer Bolton : Genetic epidemiology and genome-wide association studies - application towards understanding cortisol in humans.
Speaker 2: Sarah Robertson : Does exposure to diesel particulate predispose the heart to increased injury after myocardial infarction?
Chair: Nik Morton
All welcome.