CVS progress reports - Autumn 2013
The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm.
Thursday 5th December 2013
Speaker 1: Calvin Chin - the role of myocardial fibrosis in patients with aortic stenosis
Speaker 2: Yolanda Sourgia-Koutraki - Visualisation of inflammatory induced R2* changes in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Thursday 28th November 2013
Speaker 1: Lyam Hollis - Magnetic Resonance Elastography as a Method of Measuring the Stiffness of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Speaker 2: Paul Hindle - Development of the ovine perivascular stem cell model for articular cartilage repair
Thursday 21st November 2013
Speaker 1: Monica Opiyo - The role of glucocorticoid metabolism in bile acid homeostasis
Speaker 2: Tracy Mak - Hormonal mediators of the Metabolic Syndrome following disruption of 5∝-reductase 1
Thursday 14th November 2013
Speaker: Jessica Ivy
Title: Glucocorticoids and renal sodium transport: implications for hypertension and salt-sensitivity
Thursday 7th November 2013
Speakers: Adam Pawson, Helen Benson, Elena Faccenda & Joanna Sharman.
Title: The IUPHAR database and Guide to PHARMACOLOGY portal: recent developments
Thursday 24th October 2013
Speaker 1: Geoff Culshaw: The role of endothelin in the renal handling of salt in diabetic nephropathy
Speaker 2: Khulan Batbayar: Profiling the glucocorticoid programming model: tales of brain and body
Thursday 10th October 2013
Speaker 1: Susan Gallogly: Isolation and characterisation of endothelial outgrowth cells from the coronary arteries of patients with acute myocardial infarction
Speaker 2: Sana Maqsood: Cardiomyocyte cell-cell junctions during cardiac development
Thursday 3rd October 2013
Speaker 1: Manu Verma - Role of 11β-HSD1 in regulation of HPA axis activity and brain energy homeostasis during inflammation
Speaker 2: Holly Stott - Imaging Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 in Vascular Remodelling Using a Labelled Inhibitor
Thursday 26th September 2013
Speaker 1: Mark Miller - Introduction to CPR Talks
Speaker 2: Zhenguang (James) Zhang - In vivo role of macrophage 11beta-HSD1 in arthritis and angiogenesis
All welcome.