Vascular Biology Seminars


2008-03-13 13:00: Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis by N-cadherin: implications for atherosclerotic plaque stability (Sarah George, Reader in Vascular Biology, Bristol Heart Institute)

2008-04-15 16:00: Pulmonary hypertension; what’s so special about the lung? (Paul McCloughlin, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Conway Institute, University College, Dublin)

2008-10-16 13:00: Leukocyte recruitment to the advanced plaque? (Professor Erik Biessen, Leiden University)

2008-11-04 13:00: Regulation of Lung Epithelial Stem Cells by Stress-Activated Protein Kinases (Juan-Jose Ventura, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research)

2008-11-13 13:00: Application of Metabolomics to Diabetes, Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease (Dr Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2008-12-18 13:00: Loss and Gain of Function in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Pathway (Dr Paul Yu, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston)

2009-01-15 13:00: The Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension (Dr Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf, Dept of Pulmonology, Vrije Universiteit, Medical Center Amsterdam)

2009-01-22 13:00: An Approach to Molecular MRI in Atherosclerosis and Vascular Inflammation (Dr Robin Choudhury, Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow, Oxford University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine)

2009-02-24 13:00: p53 in the myocardium (Dr Roger Foo, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)

2009-03-12 13:00: Cellular targets of prostacyclin analogues in pulmonary hypertension (Professor Lucie Clapp, Medicine, UCL)

2009-04-09 13:00: Studying the response to arterial occlusion in non-mammalian models (Dr Tim Chico, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics and NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield)

2009-05-18 13:00: Mechanisms of Cell Death in Human Disease (Professor Kitsis, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, The Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease, Chief - Division of Cardiology, Director - Einstein-Montefiore Center for Cardiovascular Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicin)

2009-06-04 13:00: Regulation of Cardiac Hypertrophy by Calcium (Dr Llewelyn Roderick, Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and Laboratory of Molecular Signalling, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2009-06-18 13:00: Novel pathological insights in acute myocardial infarction delineated by magnetic resonance imaging (Dr Colin Berry, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow and Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow)

2009-07-09 13:00: AAA - can we fix it? (Dr Gillian Cockerill, Senior Lecturer Academic Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George's)

2009-07-17 13:00: The Role of a Smooth Muscle-Specific Repressor of Cell Death in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (Dr Michael Crowe, Associate Professor of Medicine, John Hopkins University and Director of Basic Research, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, The John Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Centre)

2009-10-08 13:00: Signalling via PI3Ks in Neutrophils (Professor Len Stephens, Babraham Institute)

2009-11-05 13:00: The Role of Neuropilin-1 in Vascular Cell Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signalling and Function (Professor Ian Zachary, Professor of Vascular Cell Biology, Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University College London)

2009-12-10 13:00: Mesoderm induction revisited (Dr Jim Smith, Director, MRC National Institute for Medical Research)

2010-01-14 13:00: Translating NF-kappaB; A Rel of a Problem (Fiona Oakley, University of Newcastle)

2010-02-18 13:00: TGFbeta signalling in cardiovascular development and disease (Marie-Jose Goumans, Associate Professor Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Centre)

2010-04-13 13:00: Proliferation Unleashed: The role and regulation of Skp2 in vascular smooth muscle cells (Dr Mark Bond, Lecturer, Bristol Heart Institute)

2010-06-08 13:00: Cellular responses to DNA damage: new molecular insights and new approaches to cancer therapy (Professor Steve Jackson, Frederick James Quick Professor of Biology, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology)

2010-07-08 13:00: Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells (Dr Sanjay Sinha, Cardiovascular Medicine (University of Cambridge))

2010-09-09 13:00: BMP/TGF-β signalling in disease: from genetics to 3D structure (Dr Alex Bullock, PI, Growth Factor Signalling Group, SGC, University of Oxford)

2010-10-05 13:00: Cytoprotective Mechanisms in the Vasculature - a Potential Therapeutic Target? (Professor Justin Mason, Professor of Vascular Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital)

2010-11-02 13:00: Diabetes causes bone marrow microangiopathy and remodelling of stem cell niches (Professor Paolo Maddedu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, Bristol Heart Institute)

2011-01-20 13:00: A Redox Switch in Angiotensinogen Modulates Angiotensin Release (Aiwu Zhou, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, Dept of Haematology, Cambridge)

2011-02-17 13:00: The sarcomeric Z-disk, a central structure for cardiomyocyte function and survival (Professor Ralph Knoell, Professor of Myocardial Genetics, Imperial College, London)

2011-03-17 13:00: Interleukin-1, Vascular Injury & Atherosclerosis (Dr Sheila Francis, Reader in Cardiovascular Science, University of Sheffield)

2011-05-12 13:00: Pharmacology of prostacyclin: relevance to pulmonary hypertension (Professor Jane Mitchell, Head of Cardiothoracic Pharmacology, Imperial College, London)

2011-06-09 13:00: Big Macs, bacteria and the gut: New roles for Toll-like receptors in atherosclerosis? (Dr Clett Erridge, Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester)

2011-07-14 13:00: Fibrillin microfibrils and elastic fibres in vascular disease: genotype-phenotype studies (Professor Cay Kielty, Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Manchester)