CVS progress reports - Spring/Summer 2012
The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm.
Thursday 21st June
Speaker: Gregorio Naredo - WTCRF Mass Spectrometry core lab: Method development and synthesis of non-commercial steroids
Thursday 14th June
Speakers: Emma Di Rollo - The role of 5alpha-reductase 1 in regulating metabolism and behaviour and Rod Carter - Title to be advised.
Thursday 7th June
Speakers: James Catterson - Using drosophila to study functional relevance of conserved heart genes and Michal Janiszewski - Invadolysin interacts genetically with another protease non-stop to regulate chromosome structure in Drosophila melanogaster.
Thursday 31st May
Speakers: Eva Rog-Zielinska - The role of glucocorticoids in fetal heart development and James O'Reilly - Pregnancy, Obesity and the Early Life Programming of Disease
Thursday 24th May
Speakers: Karen Sooy - Pharmacological Inhibition of 11b-HSD1 in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease and Sharon Vass - Linking Cell Migration and Vascular Development in Zebrafish
Thursday 17th May
Speakers: Helen Benson, Adam Pawson, Joanna Sharman - Database Tools for Exploring Pharmacological Space
Chair: Donald Dunbar
Thursday 3rd May
Speakers: Jonathan Manning - Bioinformatics in the CVS and Andrew McBride - Pre-clinical development of a novel 11beta-HSD1 inhibitor
Chair: tbc
Thursday 26th April
Speaker: Tiina Kipari - 11b-HSD1 & atherosclerosis
Chair: Nik Morton
Thursday 29th March
Speakers: Lauren Thomas - Computationally Simulating Magnetic Resonance Elastography through Atherosclerotic Plaques and Sowmya Venkatasubramanian - Vascular Effects of Urocortins In Vivo in Man
Chair: Chris Kenyon
Thursday 22nd March
Speaker: Khulan Batbayar - Profiling the glucocorticoid programming model
Chair: Nik Morton
Thursday 15th March
Speaker: Maurits Jansen - Assessment of myocardial viability with magnetic resonance imaging techniques
Chair: Nik Morton
Thursday 8th March
Speaker: Shuji Sai - Can 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase predict glucocorticoid sensitivity/resistance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia?
Chair: Mandy Drake
Thursday 1st March
Speakers: Paul Hartley - Drosophila Bteb2, a Kruppel-Like Factor mediating pericardial nephrocyte development and Shirjel Alam - Title to be confirmed
Chair: Rebecca Reynolds
Thursday 23rd February
No seminar today.
Thursday 16th February
Speakers: Xiangton Zou - Glucocorticoids in liver inflammation and fibrosis and Mark Nixon - Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy as a method to visualise intra-cellular steroids
Chair: Ruth Andrew
Thursday 9th February
Speakers: Bryan Conway - Hypertension and hyperglycaemia - double jeopardy for the kidney and Karolina Duthie - The effects of endothelin receptors on neointimal lesion formation
Chair: Shakil Ahmad
Thursday 2nd February
Speaker: Cristina Esteves - Transcriptional regulation of 11b-HSD1 in adipose
Chair: Paddy Hadoke
Thursday 26th January
Speaker: Keqing Wang - Toll-like receptor aActivated neutrophils induce soluble Endoglin release from endothelial cells
Chair: Ruth Andre
All welcome.