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Upcoming Events
UC Davis Cardiovascular Symposium
When: February 13-14, 2025
Where: UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Lane
For more details, please visit the Symposium Page.
UC Davis CVRI Retreat and Heart Day 2024
Friday, December 6, 2024
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Betty Irene Moore Building, Rm 1000
4610 X Street, Sacramento, CA 95817
Program Organizers
Donald Bers, Ph.D., Javier López, M.D., Martin Cadeiras, M.D., Uma Srivatsa, M.B.B.S., MAS, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, M.D., Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D., Scott Simon, Ph.D. and Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D.
>> Every Tuesday
May 07, 2024
Speaker: Hector Valdivia, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, Faculty Director, MATRIX Program University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Title: "That Which Does Not Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger: Scorpion Peptides Mitigate Ca2+-Dependent Arrhythmias"
January 5, 2024
Speaker: Kedryn Baskin, Ph.D., Ohio State University
February 2, 2024
Speaker: Beata Wolska, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
March 1, 2024
Speaker: Wolfgang Linke, Ph.D., University of Munster
April 5, 2024
Speaker: Jillian Simon, Ph.D., Temple University
May 3, 2024
Speaker: Katja Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Ph.D., University of Maryland
June 7, 2024
Speaker: Farid Moussavi-Harami, Ph.D., University of Washington
July 5, 2024
Speaker: Priscila Sato, Ph.D., Drexel University
August 3, 2024
Speaker: Shyam Bansal, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
64th Annual Meeting and Reception
Keynote Speaker: W Jonathan Lederer, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, Professor of Physiology, University of Maryland
When: February 11, 2024 from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Location: Moshulu Restaurant and Tall Ship
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 16, 2024
Speaker: Shanna Hamilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The University of Arizona
Title: "Hyperactivity of the ryanodine receptor drives subcellular remodeling in cardiac disease." (PDF)
Host: Donald Bers, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
February 20, 2024
Speaker: Jun Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics. University of Texas Health, Houston
Title: “A Hippo in the Heart.” (PDF)
Host: Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
March 19, 2024
Speaker: Mark Dell'Acqua, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman, Director, NeuroTechnology Center, Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver
Host: Johannes Hell, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
April 16, 2024
Speaker: Ivy Dick, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Title: “Diverse Pathogenic Mechanisms Underlying Cav1.2 Channelopathies” (PDF)
Host: Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
May 21, 2024
Speaker: Grace Muller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago
Title: “The search for PDE1C-mediated compartmentalized cAMP signaling.” (PDF)
Host: Stefano Morotti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
September 17, 2024
Speaker: Jerod Denton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Anesthesiology, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Host: Heike Wulff, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology
February 1, 2024
Seminar Time: 1:30 p.m. »
“Differential Encoding of Mammalian Proprioception by Voltage Gated Sodium Channels.” (PDF)
Theanne Griffith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
April 25, 2024
Jorge E. Contreras, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
May 2, 2024
Aldrin Gomes, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
June 6, 2024
Robert Cudmore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
September 5, 2024
Luis Fernando Santana, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
September 19, 2024
Michael Ferns, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
October 3, 2024
Laura Borodinsky, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
October 17, 2024
Daniah Beleford, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
November 7, 2024
Gerald S. Zavorsky, Ph.D., R.C.P., R.P.F.T.
Adjunct Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
November 21, 2024
Melissa Bauman, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
December 5, 2024
Keith Baar, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Medicine
Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology
See the link to enter the event »
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
8th Cardiovascular Symposium Receives Inaugural School of Medicine Impact Symposia Award
Donald M. Bers, Ph.D.
Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.
Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Don Bers, Ph.D., Ele Grandi, Ph.D. and Manuel Navedo, Ph.D. for receiving School of Medicine’s Inaugural Impact Symposia Award for support towards the 2025 UC Davis Cardiovascular Symposium! This School of Medicine funding initiative was implemented to help departments within the School of Medicine to host high quality symposia that advance its research mission and bring thought leaders to campus and raise awareness of its research excellence. To this purpose, the team was awarded $15,000 in funds which will help to enhance the 2025 symposium. Bers, Grandi and Navedo are also preparing to submit an NIH-R13 proposal which, if funded, will further ensure this to be a successful event.
The 8th UC Davis Cardiovascular Symposium will be held February 13 and 14, 2025 at the UC Davis Conference Center and will feature local and international experts and trainees. More details can be found HERE.
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
- Manuel Navedo, Ph.D.
- Research title: Coupling of vascular CaV1.2 channels in health and disease $2,903,456
- Ye Chen-Izu, M.S., Ph.D.
- Research title: Decipher Mechano-Chemo-Transduction Pathway and Function in Cardiomyocytes $3,819,046
- Eleonora Grandi, Ph.D.
- Research title: Human atrial fibroblast calcium signaling in atrial fibrillation $2,599,738.00
