College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Centre for Cardiovascular Science Seminars - 2012-2013

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

Tuesday 25th June 2013

Title: Playing in Traffic: Novel Signaling and Trafficking Mechanisms in the Kidney

Speaker: Professor Michael Caplan, Institution: Yale University

Tuesday 28th May 2013

Title: Cardiac Muscle Cell Number as a Therapeutic Target: Dormant Stem Cells from Adult Myocardium

Speaker: Prof Michael Schneider, Imperial College London

Tuesday 21st May 2013

Title: Molecular mechanisms of mammalian autophagy

Speaker: Dr Sharon Tooze, London Research Institute

Tuesday 14th May 2013

Title: Atherothrombotic disease - what's new?

Speaker: Prof Keith Fox, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 7th May 2013

Title: Understanding variation in glucocorticoid sensitivity: using systemic approaches

Speaker: Prof David Ray, University of Manchester

Tuesday 26th March 2013

Title: Catabolism of glucocorticoids - novel pathways for stress reduction in zebrafish

Speaker: Dr Janina Tokarz , Institute of Experimental Genetics, Munich

Tuesday 12th March 2013 - Institute Seminar

Title: Non-genetic transgenerational effects in mammals - what is real and what isn't?

Speaker: Dr Vardham Rakyan, Queen Mary, University of London

Tuesday 5th March 2013

Title: Fine tuning of differentiation through nuclear envelope directed spatial organization of the genome

Speaker: Dr Eric Shirmer, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 26th February 2013

Title: Epigenetic epidemiology: population based approaches for understanding the role of epigenetic variation in common complex disease

Speaker: Dr Caroline Relton, Newcastle University

Tuesday 19th February 2013

Title: Molecular connections between Diabetes and Dementia; mechanistic insight or simple association?

Speaker: Dr Calum Sutherland, University of Dundee

NOTE: Change of venue - Auditorium B, Chancellor's Building, Little France

Tuesday 12th February 2013

Title: Ca2+ signalling, mitochondrial dynamics and smooth muscle proliferation in resistance arterie

Speaker: Prof John McCarron, University of Strathclyde

Tuesday 29th January 2013

Title: Epicardium-derived heart repair

Speaker: Prof Paul Riley, University of Oxford

Tuesday 22nd January 2013

Title: The metabolic significance of brown adipose tissue

Speaker: Prof Jan Nedergaard, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University

Tuesday 15th January 2013

Title: Pharmacogenomics of 'Type 2 diabetes'

Speaker: Dr Ewan Pearson, University of Dundee

Tuesday 11th December 2012

Title: The role of endoglin, a TGFbeta co-receptor, in cardiovascular development and disease

Speaker: Dr Helen Arthur, Newcastle University

Tuesday 27th November 2012

Title: Male reproductive health as a predictor (?cause) of cardiovascular disease

Speaker: Prof Richard Sharpe, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 30th October 2012

Title: New paradigms in vascular pathology of hypertension: Noxs, TRPMs and microparticles

Speaker: Dr Rhian Touzy, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences University of Glasgow

Tuesday 23rd October 2012

Title: Getting to the Heart with Anti-matter

Speaker: Professor Dave Newby, University of Edinburgh

Monday 1 st October 2012

Title: Cinderella, a paradigm shift and blood coagulation

Speaker: Professor James O'Donnell, Trinity College Dublin

NOTE TIME: 10am - 11am

Tuesday 25th September 2012

Title: Molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular development - Implications in cardiac pathology

Speaker: Dr Kay-Dietrich Wagner, INSERM, Nice