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2017 Seminar Series

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title	Department
1/4/2017	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
1/11/2017	Dr. Jun Yoshioka	The Emerging Role of Txnip in Cardiac Physiology and Pathology	Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard University
1/18/2017	Dr. Lee Bidwell	Targeting sFlt-1 for Treatment of Preeclampsia	UMMC-Neurology
1/25/2017	Dr. Erin Taylor	Autoimmunity in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
2/1/2017	Dr. Brent Wagner	The Pathophysiology of Gadolinium-Associated Systemic Fibrosis	University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio
2/8/2017	Dr. Romain Harmancey	Role of the UCP3 in the Control of Systemic and Myocardial Metabolism	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
2/15/2017	Dr. Ji Li	Cardiac Sirtuin 1 Signaling Pathway in Aging	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
2/22/2017	Dr. Jeffrey Osborn	The African/Caribbean Green Monkey: Characterization of a Novel Translational Model of Hypertension, Renal and Cardiovascular Disease	University of Kentucky
3/1/2017	Dr. Gregory Morton	Role of the Brain in Glycemic Control	University of Washington
3/8/2017	Dr. David Stec	Role of Heme Oxygenase-1 in Obesity	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
3/15/2017	Dr. Dale Abel	Metabolic Signaling and the Regulation of Myocardial Autophagy	University of Iowa
3/22/2017	Dr. Gerald Shulman	The New Biology of Type 2 Diabetes	Yale University
3/29/2017	Dr. Mark Sussman	Cardiac C-Kit Biology: Revealed to be Relevant	San Diego State University
4/5/2017	Dr. Joshua Speed	High Salt Intake as a Novel Risk Factor for Obesity	University of Alabama at Birmingham
4/12/2017	No Seminar	Spring Faculty Meeting	No Seminar
4/19/2017	EB Practice Seminars	EB Practice Seminars	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
4/26/2017	No Seminar	Experimental Biology	No Seminar
5/3/2017	Dr. Kristin Edwards	Novel Membrane-Bound Effectors of Mitochondrial Function	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
5/10/2017	Dr. Merry Lindsey	Extracellular Matrix Roles in Cardiac Wound Healing	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
5/17/2017	Dr. Haiming Cao	Regulation of Metabolic Homeostasis by Long Non-coding RNAs	NHLBI
5/24/2017	Dr. Paula Warrington	Maternal and Perinatal Cerebrovascular Complications Following Placental Ischemia	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
5/31/2017	Dr. Barbara Alexander	Low Birth Weight and Chronic Health Across the Lifespan	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
6/7/2017	Dr. Adolfo Correa	The Jackson Heart Study: Recent Highlights	UMMC-Jackson Heart Study
6/14/2017	Dr. Michael Ryan	Autoimmunity and its Link to Essential Hypertension	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
6/21/2017	Dr. Heather Drummond	Role of Degenerin Proteins in VSMCs	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
6/28/2017	Dr. Eric George	Preeclampsia: Challenges and Opportunities	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
7/5/2017	No Seminar	Independence Day Holiday	No Seminar
7/12/2017	Dr. Robert Hester	Mathematical Simulation of Integrative Technology: History and the Future	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
7/19/2017	Dr. James Wilson	Novel Approaches to High-Dimensional Data Analysis in the Jackson Heart Study	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
7/26/2017	Dr. Kristine DeLeon	Chronic Inflammation and the Heart: And the Beat Goes On	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
8/2/2017	Dr. Alan Mouton	Alcohol Abuse and Heart Failure: Impairments in Cardiac Remodeling	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
8/9/2017	Dr. Samuel Adeosun	Using CRISPR-Cas9 to Investigate the Role of Biliverdin Reductase-A in Renal Lipotoxicity	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
8/16/2017	Dr. Yonggang Ma	Biphasic Roles of MMP-28 Post-Myocardial Infarction	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
8/23/2017	Dr. Suzanne Oparil	My Road to Academic Cardiology	University of Alabama at Birmingham
8/30/2017	Dr. Alejandro Chade	Therapeutic Angiogenesis for the Kidney: Can We?	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
9/6/2017	Council Practice Talks	Practice Seminars	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
9/13/2017	No Seminar	Council for Hypertension Research	No Seminar
9/20/2017	Dr. Zhen Wang	Interaction of Hypertension and Diabetes in Progressive Nephropathy	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
9/27/2017	Dr. Drew Pruett	Mechanisms of Variable Response in Renal Denervation	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
10/3/2017	Dr. Sarah Lindsey	Role of Membrane-Initiated Estrogen Signaling in Arterial Stiffness	Tulane University
10/4/2017	Dr. Heddwen Brooks	Sex Differences in T Cell-Dependent Hypertension: Role of Menopause in Disease Onset	University of Arizona
10/11/2017	Gwendolyn Davis	Blood Pressure, Aging, and the IUGR Female Rat	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
10/18/2017	Victoria Wolf	Immunosuppressive Therapy for the Treatment of Hypertension and Renal Injury in an Experimental Model of Autoimmune Disease	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
10/25/2017	Dr. Michael Soares	Adaptive Mechanisms Regulating Placental Development	University of Kansas Medical Center
11/1/2017	Ashley Newsome	Investigating the Effects of Secondary Insult  Aging, and Sex in the Developmental Programming of Chronic Kidney Diseas	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
11/06/2017	Dr. Jean Pierre Montani	Assessment of Energy Metabolism:  A Historical Perspective	University of Fribourg
11/8/2017	Dr. Sam Senyo	Engineering Tools to Study the Cardiac Microenvironment	Case Western Reserve University
11/15/2017	Dr. Jeremy Duncan	Role of Cytokines in Mediating Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Response to Placental Ischemia	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
11/22/2017	No Seminar	Thanksgiving	No Seminar
11/29/2017	Dr. Sadia Ashraf	Role of Nuclear Receptor NR4A2 in Myocardial Remodeling	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
12/6/2017	Dr. Kedryn Baskin	Mediating Physiology: Complex Roles of Mediator in Heart and Muscle	UT Southwestern
12/13/2017	Dr. Bhavisha Bakrania	Soluble Guanylate Cyclase as a Target for the Treatment of Preeclampsia	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
12/20/2017	Dr. John Clemmer	Improving Hypertension Treatment with Computational Modeling	UMMC-Physiology & Biophysics
12/27/2017	No Seminar	Christmas	No Seminar