Centre for Cardiovascular Science Seminars - 2011-2012
Seminars hosted by the Centre for Cardiovascular Science, held at 12pm-1pm in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI, Little France.
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
Thusday 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