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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