College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

CVS progress reports - Spring 2013

The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm.

Thursday 28th March 2013

Speaker 1: Sophie Turban: Glucocorticoids and b-cells during postnatal development: a new paradigm

Speaker 2: Nichola Brydges: Pre-pubertal stress and hippocampal dependent behaviour: a rodent model

Thursday 21st March 2013

Speaker: Nusrat Khan - Perivascular stem cells

Thursday 14th March 2013

Speaker 1: Catherine Rose - Programming of Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Exploration of Epigenetic Mechanisms

Speaker 2: Ash Taylor - tbc

Thursday 7th March 2013

Speaker 1: Chinthika Piyasena - Early life programming and prematurity

Speaker 2: Sebastian Pieperhoff - How are cardiomyocytes, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies and maybe heart muscle regeneration connected?

Thursday 21st February 2013

Speaker 1: Barry Emerson - TBC

Speaker 2: Dawn Livingstone - Safer anti-inflammatory therapy: 5alpha-reduce glucocorticoids as selective glucocorticoid receptor modulators

Thursday 14th February 2013

Speaker 1: Annalisa Gastaldello - Understanding the anti-inflammatory properties of 5alpha-Tetrahydrocorticosterone

Speaker 2: Georgios Papana - Assessing cardiac perfusion using MRI and CT

Thursday 7th February 2013

Speaker: Natalie Homer - Developing novel analytical methods in the MS core

Thursday 31st January 2013

Speaker 1: Alixe Kilgour - How to achieve successful ageing?

Speaker 2: Anjanette Finch - Cognitive and affective processing in BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor) knockdown rats: an fMRI study.

Thursday 24th January 2013

Speaker: Charlotte Buckley - Investigation into the molecular mechanisms of renin storage and release.

Thursday 17th January 2013

Speakers: Christopher West - Polymer guided chondrogenesis of human adipose derived perivascular stem cells and Kris Wilson - Novel Screening Techniques for the Discovery of Human KMO Inhibitors.

All welcome.