Spring 2019: Seminar Series
January 8, 2019
Christine Seidman, MD
Director, Brigham & Women’s Cardiovascular Genetics Center
T.W. Smith Professor of Medicine & Genetics, Harvard Medical School
“Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Mutations and Mechanisms that Enable New Medicines”
January 15, 2019
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
January 22, 2019
Clive Baveghems, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Olga Gursky, PhD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Effects of Triacylglycerol on the Structural Remodeling of Human Plasma Very Low- and Low-Density Lipoproteins”
January 22, 2019
Vladimir Mastyugin, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Victoria Bolotina, PhD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Targeting PLA2g6/Ca2+ signaling for protection against age and/or HFHS diet-induced aortic stiffening”
January 29, 2019
Beatriz Ferran Perez, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Reiko Matsui, MD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Redox therapy to improve ischemic limb vascularization”
February 19, 2019
Alessandra Fedoce Weaver, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Markus Bachschmid, PhD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Glutaredoxin-1 Overexpression May Normalize Hepatic Lipid Metabolism”
February 19 , 2019
Joel May, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Francesca Seta, PhD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Bcl11b-Mediated Regulation Of Vascular Smooth Muscle specific gene expression”
February 26 , 2019
Kieran Clarke, PhD
Professor of Physiological Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG)
“Exogenous ketones for the heart”
March 5 , 2019
Elizabeth Murphy, PhD
Cardiac Physiology Section, Systems Biology Center
NHLBI, NIH
“The role of mitochondria in cardioprotection.”
March 12 , 2019
Cristal Thompson, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Katya Ravid, DSc, PhD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Thrombosis in JAKV617F Transgenic Mouse Model of Primary Myelofibrosis”
March 19th, 2019
Todd Sponholtz, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Vasan S. Ramachandran, MD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Individual- and group-level clustering of cardiometabolic disease”
March 19 , 2019
Sana Majid, MD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mentor: Naomi Hamburg, MD)
Boston University School of Medicine
“Vascular Effects of Novel Tobacco Products”
March 26, 2019
Richard T. Lee, MD
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Mechanisms Joining Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiac Fibrosis”
April 2, 2019
Thomas Michel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician in Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Chemogenetic approaches to study redox stress pathways in the cardiovascular system”
April 9, 2019
Matthew Steinhauser, MD
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
“Impaired Adipose Tissue Plasticity as a Driver of Cardiometabolic Disease”
April 23, 2019
Travis Hinson, MD
Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Clinic Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
University of Connecticut Health Center
“New Genomic Approaches to Study Heart Failure”
April 30, 2019
Richard Wainford, PhD
Associate Professor
Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
Boston University School of Medicine
“Hypertension: The brain? The kidney? Or do we just get old?”
May 7, 2019
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Evelyn and James Jenks and Paul Dudley White Professor of Medicine in the Field of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School
“Aging, Exercise, and Heart Failure: Looking for New Targets”
May 14 , 2019
Jonghan Kim, PhD
Assistant Professor of Toxicology and Pharmacokinetics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
“Molecular Dynamics of Iron Disorders and Novel Therapies”
May 21, 2019
Jeffery Testani, MD, MTR
Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine Yale School of Medicine
“Cardio-Renal Syndrome and Diuretic Resistance: Mechanism and clinical implications”
May 28, 2019
William Pu, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital
“Use of Human Tissue and Mouse Models to Develop Mechanistic Insights and Therapeutic Opportunities for Inherited Heart Disease”
June 4, 2019
Basak Icli, PhD, MS
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Role of angio-miRs in cardiometabolic disease”