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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Scientific Meetings

Gordon Research Conference: Vascular Cell Fate, Metabolism, and Targeting, January 20-25, 2019
Gasotransmitter Cooperation: Chromatin Signaling in Heart and Vascular Diseases, May 26-31, 2019.
Gordon Research Conference: From Molecular and Cellular Insights to Therapeutic Approaches in Atherosclerosis, June 16-21, 2019.
Gordon Research Conference: Growing Organotypically Differentiated Vasculatures from Vascular Sprouts, August 4-9, 2019.

VBTG Pubs 2015-16 – pubs for VBTG trainees

Vascular Biology Seminar Series Schedule 2018-2021

May 25, 2021 Zoom Meeting 10:00-11:00AM	Dr. David J. Pinsky, M.D \| Publications Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan. “COVID-19 as the great disruptor: Wounded cells and cytokine storms as thrombo-inflammatory executioners“
May 11, 2021 Zoom Meeting 10:00-11:00AM	Dr. Timothy McKinsey, PhD \| Publications Professor and Associate Division Head, University of Colorado. “Non-Nuclear Functions of HDACs in Heart and Fat”
April 13, 2021 Zoom Meeting 11:00-12:00PM	Dr. Qian Li, PhD \| Publications Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Programming and Reprogramming: What Does It Take to Make a Cardiomyocyte?“
March 9, 2021 Zoom Meeting 11:00-12:00PM	Dr. Joshua Wythe, PhD \| Publications Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA. “Defining the transcriptional and epigenetic basis of organotypic endothelial cell heterogeneity”
February 9, 2021 Zoom Meeting 11:00 – 12:00PM	Dr. Pearl Quijada, PhD \| Publications Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology. “Coordination of vascular patterning by the epicardium”
June 11, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	John Cooke, MD, PhD \| Publications Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Houston Methodist Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College “Innate immune signaling in epigenetic control of transdifferentiation”
May 14, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Michael Elowitz, PhD \| Publications Professor of Biology and Bioengineering Caltech “Protein circuit designs for computation and communication”
April 9, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Gwendalyn Randolf, PhD \| Publications Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis “Immune cell and lipoprotein trafficking through lymphatic vessels in atherosclerosis and IBD”
February 12, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Kristy Red-Horse, PhD \| Publications Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Stanford University “Building and Repairing the Heart: Coronary Artery Development and Regeneration”
January 8, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Khalid Salaita, PhD \| Publications Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Emory University “A measure of molecular muscle: Development and application of DNA force probes to study mechanotransduction in human platelets and T cells”
December 11, 2018 BSRB 154 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Thomas Michel, MD, PhD \| Publications Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry Harvard Medical School “Chemogenetic approaches to study redox biology in the cardiovascular system“
January 8, 2019 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Khalid Salaita, PhD \| Publications Associate Professor Department of Chemistry Emory University “A measure of molecular muscle: Development and application of DNA force probes to study mechanotransduction in human platelets and T cells”
November 29, 2018 BSRB 154 \| 9:00 – 10:00 AM	Anna Randi, MD, PhD \| Publications Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine National Health & Lung Institute Imperial College, London “Transcriptional and Epigenetic Control of Vascular Homeostasis”
November 13, 2018 Boyer 159 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Yun Fang, PhD \| Publications Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Chicago “Genetic Variant, Cellular Metabolism, and Nanomedicine in Mechanobiology and Cardio/Pulmonary vascular diseases”
October 9, 2018 BSRB 154 \| 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Catherine Hedrick, PhD \| Publications Professor, Division of Inflammatory Biology La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology “Myeloid Heterogeneity in Cancer”
October 5, 2018 Gonda 1357 \| 2:30 – 3:30 PM	Shahin Rafii, MD, PhD \| Publications Professor, Reproductive Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College “Tissue-specific vascular niche angiocrine signals in organogenesis and tumorigenesis”

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