Boston University Medical Campus
Training Program in Cardiovascular Biology: Pre-Do

CVI Seminar Series

Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute: SEMINAR SERIES

CVI Seminars 2005-2006 (attended by trainees in the Cardiovascular Training Program)

CVI Seminars 2004-2005 (attended by trainees in the Cardiovascular Training Program)

September 14, 2004 Joseph R. Williamson, MD Professor of Pathology, Pathology Department, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Caveats to Connecting Metabolic Imbalances Implicated in Diabetic Complications September 15, 2004 Takeshi Adachi, MD, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Vascular Biology Unit, Boston University Medical Center The Mechanism of Nitric Oxide-induced Arterial Relaxation October 5, 2004 Richard N. Kitsis, MD Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, The Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease, Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY Manipulating Cell Death in Heart Disease October 19, 2004 Robert S. Balaban, PhD Scientific Director, Laboratory Research Program, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD The Cellular Domestication of Mitochondrial Function October 26, 2004 Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, D Phil Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas Multitasking of Myocardiol Metabolism November 3, 2004 Malte Kelm, MD Professor of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Deputy Chair of the Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary and Vascular Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany Transport and Synthesis of Nitric Oxide in Human Circulation November 4, 2004 Kostas Pantopoulos, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Iron Metabolism, Cancer and Hepatitis C Virus: New Regulatory Connections November 16, 2004 Michael S. Goligorsky, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Academic Chief, Division of Nephrology, Director, Renal Research Institute, Basic Sciences Building, Valhalla, NY Premature Senescence of Vascular Endothelial cells December 7, 2004 Anthony Rosenzweig, MD Director, Program in Cardiovascular Gene Therapy, MGH Signaling Pathways Controlling Cardiomyocyte Survival and Function December 14, 2004 Paul Wentworth, Jr., PhD Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, CA Cholesterol 5, 6-secosterols (the Atheronals)-A Chemical Link between Atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease January 11, 2005 Douglas W. Losordo, MD Chief, Cardiovascular Research, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA Adult Stem Cells: New Hope for Old Hearts? January 18, 2005 Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Molecular Determinants of Vascular spasm February 8, 2005 Bingbing Jiang, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Vascular Biology Unit, Department of Medicine and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine Mitogen-activated Protein Kinases Regulate the Duration of NF-kB Activation February 15, 2005 Jon Epstein, MD Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA Translating Insights from Cardiac Development to Adult Cardiac Disease February 22, 2005 Alan Fine, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine Lung Stem Cells: New Paradigms March 1, 2005 Kai Chen, MD, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine Reactive Oxygen Species and Signal Transduction March 8, 2005 Jennifer Van Eyk Director, The Hopkins NHLBI Proteomics Center, Director, Bayview Proteomics Group, Associate Professor Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Biological Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University-Bayview Campus, Baltimore, Maryland Expanding the Mitochondrial Proteome and its Implications in Cardiac Disease March 22, 2005 Jeffrey R. Moore Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine The Role of the Myosin Neck Region April 5, 2005 Richard H. Karas, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Co-director, Molecular Cardiology Research Center, Director, Preventive Cardiology Center, Director, Women’s Heart Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA Estrogen, Estrogen Receptors and the Cardiovascular System April 12, 2005 Martin Feelisch, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine & Biochemistry, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine What the Heck is NObonomics? April 19, 2005 Sidney Morris, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA Roles and Regulation of Arginases: Relevance to Vascular Biology and Disease April 26, 2005 Angelo Parini, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Louis Bugnard Institute, Professor of Physiology, Head of the Molecular Pharmacology and Renal Pathophysiology Laboratory, Toulouse, France Hydrogen Peroxide Produced by Monoamine Oxidases: a Key Mediator of Receptor-independent Effects of Serotonin in the Heart May 3, 2005 Mohamad Navab, PhD Professor of Cardiology/Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Using HDL Components as Anti-inflammatory Agents

CVI Seminars 2003-2004 (attended by trainees in the Cardiovascular Training Program)

2003 – 2004 Lunch is served at all lectures at 11:30, Speaker will begin at 12:00 EBRC Conference Room, X714, 650 Albany Street September 9, 2003 Jorge Plutzky, M.D., Director, The Vascular Disease Prevention Program, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, “Exogenous and Endogenous Mechanisms for PPAR Activation: Implications for Diabetes and Atherosclerosis” September 30, 2003 Philip W. Shaul, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Pediatrics, “eNOS Regulation in Caveolae: Identifying the Battlefield and the Combatants in the War of Endothelial Function” October 7, 2003 Richard C. Austin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, “Homocysteine-induced Endolplasmic Reticulum Stress and its Role in the Development of Atherosclerosis” November 18, 2003 Michael S. Wolin, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, “Roles for Oxidant and Redox Signaling Mechanisms in the Control of Vascular Function by PO2 and Stretch” December 2, 2003 Hanjoong Jo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, Emory University, “BMP4 is a Mechanosensitive, Proatherogenic Cytokine in Endothelial Cells” December 9, 2003 Dennis J. Stuehr, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Medicine, Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, “Biological Protein Nitration: Identifying the Targets, Mechanisms, and Possible Consequences” December 16, 2003 George L. King, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director of Research, Joslin Diabetes Center, Section Head: Vascular Cell Biology, “The Role of PKC Activation in the Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes and Insulin Resistance Syndromes” January 6, 2004 Jeffrey Robbins, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Chair, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Associate Chair of Core Research Programs, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, “The Desmin-related Cardiomyopathies; Alzheimer’s of the Heart” January 20, 2004 Victor Darley-Usmar, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, “Nitric Oxide and Mitochondria; Mechanisms and Biological Implications” Feburary 10, 2004 Michael D. Schneider, M.D., The M.D. Anderson Foundation Professor, Center for Cardiovascular Development Departments of Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, “Cardiac Progenitor Cells from Adult Myocardium: Homing, Differentiation, and Fusion Following Infarction” March 9, 2004 Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Jr. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, “eNOS Dysfunction in Hypercholesterolemia and Sickle Cell, A Common Theme between Two Dissimilar Genetic Diseases” March 23, 2004 Michael A. Marletta, Ph.D., Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, “Sensing Nitric Oxide in a Sea of Oxygen ¡§C How Does NO Signaling Work” April 6, 2004 Charles E. Murry, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, “Stem Cells in Repair of the Injured Heart: Fact, Fiction or (con)fusion” April 13, 2004 Masuko Ushio-Fukai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA “Reactive Oxygen Species and Angiogenesis” April 16, 2004 Takayuki Asahara, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Regenerative Medicine and Research, Kobe Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, RIKEN Center of Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan “Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Regeneration” April 27, 2004 Frank J. Naya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Boston University, “The MEF2 Transcription Factor Pathway in Cardiac Development and Disease” May 11, 2004 Jeffery D. Molkentin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio “PKCalpha Functions as a Novel Regulator of Cardiac Contractility” May 25, 2004 William Aird, MD Director, Molecular Medicine Deaconess, Boston, MA Endothel specific gene regulation