Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Seminar Series 2010-2011

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SPEAKER

ROOM

October 4, 2010

Jean-Leon Thomas, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Yale University “When neural cell make use of vascular growth factors. VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 signaling in neural stem cells”

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October 11, 2010

Michael Simons, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor Cell Biology “Location, causation, duration- the real estate of endothelial signaling”

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October 25, 2010

Hyung Chun (Yale)Assistant Professor, Internal Med Cardiology “Endothelial homeostasis: role of apelin and its downstream targets”

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November 1, 2010

Dan Grief, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Yale University, “Constructing and remodeling the blood vessel wall in development and disease”

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November 8, 2010

David D. Roberts, Ph.D., Head, Biochemical Pathology Section, Senior Investigator, NIH/NCI, Thrombospondin-1: a key regulator of vascular responses to stress”

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November 15, 2010

Katerina Politi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine (medical Oncology) and of Pathology. Yale University, “Studying Mechanisms of Lung Tumorigenesis using Mouse Models”

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November 29, 2010

Chunxiang Zhang MD,PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Surgery-General, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, “MicroRNAs in vascular smooth muscle cell biology and vascular disease”

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December 6, 2010

Robert D. Simari, MD, Professor, Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, “TFPI plays a role in the coordinated regulation of thrombosis and angiogenesis”

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December 13, 2010

Holger Gerhardt, Ph.D., London Research Institute, “Social cell behavior in angiogenesis”

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December 20, 2010

Daniel Garry, MD, PhD., Professor, Medicine, Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Director, Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota, “Transcriptional regulation of cardiac progenitors”

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January 10, 2011

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, “Attenuation of TGF beta signaling in cancer cells: the story of Myc, microRNAs, and microvessels”

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January 24, 2011

Andre Levchenko, PhD, Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, “Complex decisions in vascular development & morphogenesis: the role of chemical and mechanical cues”

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February 7, 2011

Gary Owens, PhD, Professor of Physiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, “Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms and Pluripotency Gene Networks in Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotypic Switching in  

Vascular Development and Disease”

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February 14, 2011

Stefania Nicoli, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, UMASS Medical School, “How to make a blood vessel: miRNAs function in signaling pathways”

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February 21, 2011

Mark L. Kahn, M.D., B.A., Professor of Medicine, Department: Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,  

Cancelled

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February 28, 2011

Diane Krause, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Yale University, “Role of the MKL/SRF pathway in megakaryocyte differentiation”

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March7, 2011

Susan Quaggin, M.D., Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine,

University of Toronto, “VEGF Signaling in the Vasculature - A New Twist in the Story”

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March 14, 2011

David Calderwood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Yale University, “Regulators of Integrin Activation”

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March 21, 2011

Mustafa Khokha, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics, Yale University, “Reverse Translational: Deciphering Congenital Heart Disease Gene Function in Frog Model Systems”

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April 11, 2011

Jack Elias, Waldmar von Zedwitz Professor of Medicine, Professor of Immunobiology, Chairman of Internal Medicine Yale University, “Research update from the Elias Lab”

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April 18, 2011

Anton Bennett, PhD., Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Yale University, “Signaling by Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in Health and Disease”

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April 25, 2011

Cam Patterson, PhD, Professor, Director,

McAllister Heart Institute, Chief, Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “TBA”

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May 2, 2011

David A. Kass, MD, Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, “TBA”

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May 9, 2011

Ernest Fraenkel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, MIT Depart of Biology Engineering, “TBA”

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May 16, 2011

Jordan Pober, M.D., Ph.D.,Vice Chair, Immunobiology for Section of Human and Translational Immunology, Professor of Immunobiology, Pathology & Dermatology, “TBA”

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