Upcoming Events

UC Davis CVRI Retreat and Heart Day 2023


Friday, October 26, 2023

11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Betty Irene Moore Building, Rm 1000
4610 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817

Program Organizers

Drs. Donald Bers, Javier López, Martin Cadeiras, Uma Srivatsa, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Crystal Ripplinger, Scott Simon and Luis Fernando Santana.

>> Every Tuesday


October 3, 2023

Speaker: Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chair and Executive Medical Director, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health


October 10, 2023

Speaker: Christine M. Albert, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, Department of Cardiology, Lee and Harold Kapelovitz Distinguished Chair in Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center


October 17, 2023

Speaker: Jose Renato Pinto, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University


October 24, 2023

Speaker: Ngan F. Huang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine


October 31, 2023

Speaker: Tzung Hsiai, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Bioengineering, Professor, Graduate Programs in Bioscience, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering


November 7, 2023

Speaker: Ntobeko Ntusi, M.B.Ch.B., Head of Medicine and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Groote Schuur Hospital


November 21, 2023

Speaker: Chiara Giannarelli, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cardiology, Associate Professor of Pathology, NYU Cardiovascular Research Center, NYU Langone Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine


December 5, 2023

Speaker: Ivor Benjamin, M.D., Professor and Director, Cardiovascular Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

October 6, 2023

Speaker: Sharon George, Ph.D., Northwestern University


November 3, 2023

Speaker: Chris Johnson, Ph.D., Mississippi State University


December 1, 2023

Speaker: Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, Ph.D., University of Manitoba


January 5, 2023

Speaker: Kedryn Baskin, Ph.D., Ohio State University


February 2, 2023

Speaker: Beata Wolska, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago


March 1, 2023

Speaker: Wolfgang Linke, Ph.D., University of Munster


April 5, 2023

Speaker: Jillian Simon, Ph.D., Temple University


May 3, 2023

Speaker: Katja Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Ph.D., University of Maryland


June 7, 2023

Speaker: Farid Moussavi-Harami, Ph.D., University of Washington


July 5, 2023

Speaker: Priscila Sato, Ph.D., Drexel University

63rd Annual Virtual Reception

Keynote Speaker: Jolanda van der Velden, Ph.D., Chair Department of Physiology, Director, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

When: February 19, 2023 from 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Location: ZOOM Virtual Meeting

Cardiovascular Research Discoveries is a new webinar series that will take place every month. This is a collaborative webinar series delivered by Cardiovascular Research and the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science to provide an interactive online forum for global discussion of key topics in cardiovascular research to continue to drive and support research and our community at a time of restricted physical interaction.

January 17, 2023

Speaker: Daniel Choquet, Ph.D., Director, Dynamic organization and function of Synapses, Bordeaux Neurocampus

Title: "Interplay between dynamic nanoscale glutamatergic synapse organization and function" (PDF)

Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D.


February 21, 2023

Speaker: Daniela Kaufer, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Associate Dean of Biological Sciences, University of California, Berkley

Title: "TBA"

Host: Angela Gelli, Ph.D.


April 4, 2023

2 p.m. in Tupper Hall 2133/2135 and via Zoom

Speaker: Zhao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Diabetes and Cancer Metabolism, City of Hope

Title: “Protein Folding and Glucose Metabolism: Two-way Traffic in Cardiac Disease” (PDF)

Host: Yang Kevin Xiang, Ph.D.

January 26, 2023

Edward Pugh, Ph.D.,
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


March 2, 2023

Mark Huising, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior


March 16, 2023

Colleen Clancy, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


March 30, 2023

Jon Sack, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


April 20, 2023

Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


May 18, 2023

Alla Fomina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


June 1, 2023

Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


September 21, 2023

Jie Zheng, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


October 19, 2023

James Trimmer, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


November 16, 2023

Rose Ellen Dixon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology


December 7, 2023

Eamonn Dickson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology

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October 4, 2023

Speaker: Li Qian, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
Hosts: Liming Pei and Rajan Jain


October 11, 2023

Speaker: Paul Titchenell, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine
Host: Zoltan Arany


October 18, 2023

Speaker: Hossein Ardehali, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine


October 25, 2023

Speaker: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center
Host: Zoltan Arany


November 1, 2023

Speaker: Mark Richards, M.D., Ph.D., University of Otago, Christchurch
Host: Julio Chirinos


November 8, 2023

Speaker: Ananth Karumanchi, M.D., Cedars-Sinai
Host: Zoltan Arany


November 15, 2023

Speaker: Javid Moslehi, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Hosts: Rajan Jain and Zoltan Arany


December 6, 2023

Speaker: Chenghua Gu, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Host: Zoltan Arany


December 13, 2023

Speaker: Pradeep Natarajan, M.D., M.M.Sc., Harvard Medical School
Hosts: Thomas Cappola and Sharlene Day

Cardiovascular Research and the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science webinar series

All Cardiovascular Research Discoveries webinars will take place via Zoom and will be live-streamed to the CVR YouTube channel.


News

Congratulations to our new AHA recipients

  • Ying Wang (Postdoc, Xiang Lab)
  • Jess Caldwell (Postdoc, Ripplinger Lab)
  • Miguel A. Martin Aragon Baudel (Postdoc, Navedo Lab)

Congratulations to our below Faculty who recently received funding on new NIH grants

  • Dr. Navedo
    • Research title: Coupling of vascular CaV1.2 channels in health and disease $2,903,456
  • Dr. Chen-Izu
    • Research title: Decipher Mechano-Chemo-Transduction Pathway and Function in Cardiomyocytes $3,819,046
  • Dr. Grandi
    • Research title: Human atrial fibroblast calcium signaling in atrial fibrillation $2,599,738.00