2004-2005 Cardiovascular Research Conference

Third Tuesday, 5 - 6:30 pm

Sponsored by the Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and the UW Cardiovascular Research Center

Timothy J. Kamp, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine (CV), Chair

info@cvrc.wisc.edu  263-2266  http://www.cvrc.wisc.edu/

 

Fall, 2004 Schedule:  K6/120 Clinical Sciences Center

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

Tuesday, September 21

 

Susan M. Smith, Ph.D.

Professor

Nutritional Sciences

A genetic model of subclinical retinoid (vitamin A)

deficiency reveals a novel effect upon cardiac hypertrophy responses

Tuesday, October 19

 

James M. Ervasti, Ph.D.

Professor, Physiology

Flox 'n' Socks: Costameric Actin Defects in Diseases of Striated Muscle

Tuesday, November 16

 

Eugene Kaji, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

Calcineurin in Physiologic Cardiac Hypertrophy:  Hope for the American Couch Potato

Tuesday, December 21

 

Michael Sanguinetti, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI), University of Utah

Cause or cure of arrhythmia: drug binding to the inner pore of cardiac K channels

 

Spring, 2005 Schedule: 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center 

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

Tuesday, January 18

 

Marion L. Greaser, Ph.D.

Professor, Animal Sciences, CALS

Titin: A Giant Protein with Emerging New Roles in Cardiac Function

Tuesday, February 22

(Note change: originally scheduled for Feb 15th)

Alan D. Attie, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry

Mining for Type 2 Diabetes Genes Using Mouse Genetics

Tuesday, March 15

 

CANCELLED

 

Tuesday, April 19

 

David A. Kass, MD

Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Treating stressed hearts with Viagra: New myocardial role for PDE5a inhibition

 

Tuesday, May 17