College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

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.