CVI Seminar Series

Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute: SEMINAR SERIES

For Updated Seminar Series (2015 and on) please visit the CVI web page

Seminar Date	Name of Speaker, Degree, Affiliation	Seminar Title
September 19, 2017	Christopher O’Donnell, M.D. Associate Director Framingham Heart Study Associate Clinical Professor Harvard Medical School Boston, MA	Cardiovascular Genomics in Disease and Health: the Road from Genomic Discoveries in Populations to Gene Function to Clinical Application
September 26, 2017	Jason Nasse, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	The Anti-Aging Protein, Klotho, and Its Role in Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases T32 Grant Trainee
October 3, 2017	Cynthia St. Hilaire Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA	“Insights Into Vascular Calcification Through the Study of Rare Disease”
October 24, 2017	Pilar Alcaide, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology Tufts University School of Medicine Medford, MA	“Exploring the Role of T Cells as Orchestrators of Maladaptive Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure”

October 31, 2017	George King, M.D. Joslin Diabetes Center Chief Scientific Officer Director of Research Senior Vice President and Head of the Section on Vascular Cell Biology Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine Boston, MA Joslin Diabetes Center Boston, MA	“Insulin’s Effect on the Arterial Wall: Differential Actions on Restenosis and Atherosclerosis”
November 14, 2017	Silvia Corvera, MD Professor Program in Molecular Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA	“Human Adipose Tissue Development and Adipocyte Specialization”
January 9, 2018	Nehal Mehta, MD Chief National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases National Institute of Health Bethesda, Maryland	“Human Translational Studies of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases”

January 30, 2018	Seng Kah Ng, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mentor: Katya Ravid, DSc Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“Newly Identified Mechanosensory Channels (Piezo) in the Megakaryotic and Platelet Lineage” T32 Grant Trainee
January 30, 2018	Vladimir Mastyugin, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mentor: Victoria Bolotina, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“Novel PLA2g6/Ca2+- targeting Approach for Prevention of Age and/or HFHS diet-Induced Aortic Stiffening” T32 Grant Trainee
February 27, 2018	Clive Baveghems, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mentor: Olga Gurksy,PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“Structural Remodeling of HDL Proteins in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus” T32 Grant Trainee

February 27, 2018	Erik Taylor, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mentor: James Hamilton, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“MR Imaging of Aortic Atherosclerosis and Fatty Liver in Rabbits” T32 Grant Trainee
March 6, 2018	Konstantinos Drosatos, PhD Assistant Professor Pharmacology, Center for Translational Medicine, Center for Metabolic Disease Research Temple University Philadelphia, PA	“Cardiac Metabolism: A Platform for Interventions and Treatments of Heart Dysfunction”
March 20, 2018	Jiyao Zhang, PhD Mentor: Naomi Hamburg, MD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetic Vascular Dysfunction” T32 Grant Trainee
March 20, 2018	Nicholas Chavkin, PhD Mentors: Kenneth Walsh, PhD and Karen Hirschi, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA	“Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress as a Therapeutic Target for Diabetic Vascular Dysfunction” T32 Grant Trainee

April 3, 2018	Christiane Wrann, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor in Medicine Harvard Medical School Assistant Biologist Massachusetts General Hospital Affiliate of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA	“Exercise and Neurodegeneration; Potential Therapeutic Role for FNDC5/irisin”
April 10, 2018	Chiara Bellini, PhD Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Northeastern University Boston, MA	“The Biomechanics of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms”
April 17, 2018	Matthew Spite, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesia Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston MA	“Inflammation-resolving Lipid Mediators”
April 24, 2018	Howard Chen, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Tufts Medical Center Boston MA	“Molecular Imaging of Cardiomyocyte Death and Survival”
May 1, 2018	Milka Koupenova-Zamor, PhD Instructor of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School	“Platelets and Influenza: Insights Beyond Thrombosis”

May 15, 2018	Steven Lubitz, MD Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Assistant Physician Massachusetts General Hospital	“Atrial Fibrillation: Assessing Risks to Improve Outcomes”
May 22, 2018	Edward Chouchani, PhD Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology (DFCI), Cell Biology Harvard Medical School	“Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Redox Control Over Health and Disease”
May 29, 2018	Joshua Walker PhD Mentor: Vipul Chitalia, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA	“Modulation of the Kynurenine Pathway to Decrease CKD-Mediated Thrombosis” T32 Grant Trainee
May 29, 2018	Joon Shim, PhD Mentor: Victoria Bolotina, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA cine Boston, MA	“Impairment of PLA2g6- dependent Ca2+ signaling in vascular smooth muscle protects against arterial stiffening” T32 Grant Trainee

June 5, 2018

Mark Lindsay, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Assistant Pediatrician, MGH

Affiliate Physician, Newton Wellesley Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

“An HDAC9-MALAT1- BRG1 Complex Mediates Smooth Muscle Dysfunction in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm”