School of Medicine

Cardiovascular Center of Excellence

Cardiovascular Center Seminar Series

The LSUHSC Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research hosts an exciting Cardiovascular Biology Seminar Series! Renowned scientists from prestigious and innovative institutions visit our Center regularly, sharing ideas and inspiring us to become the best. Please take a moment to view the LSU Health Science Center Medical School - Seminar Calendar. These seminars are golden opportunities to learn and visit with other scientists who aspire with similar interests.

 

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Murray Esler, M.D. 

Head of Human Neurotransmitters

Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute 

“Consequences of the Evolutionary Cardiovascular Challenge of Human Bipedalism: Orthostatic Intolerance Syndromes, Orthostatic Hypertension, Sustained Hypertension?”             

Thurs., Sept. 5, 2019

3:00 PM

CSRB RM 563

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Peipei Ping, Ph.D. 

Professor, Physiology

Professor, Medicine/Cardiology, and Bioinformatics

Director, NIH BD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

“Understanding Cardiac Pathogenesis Via Machine Learning Approaches”

Tues., Nov. 26, 2019

11:00 AM

CSRB RM 563

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Asa Gustafsson, Ph.D. 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

University of California-San Diego

“Mitochondrial Quality Control: The Difference Between Success and Failure”

Wed., Dec. 11, 2019

11:00 AM

CSRB RM 563

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Wilson Tang, M.D. 

Director, Center for Clinical Genomics

Research Director, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine

Lemer Research Institute- The Cleveland Clinic

“Diet, Gut Microbiome and Cardio-Renal Disease Risk”

Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CSRB RM 563

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Zoltan Arany, M.D., Ph.D. 

Associate Professor, Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

“Novel Players in Mitophagy”

Tues., Feb. 18, 2020

10:30 AM

CSRB RM 563

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Elizabeth Murphy, Ph.D.

Senior Investigator 

Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology

NIH Heart Lung and Blood Institute

“The Role of Mitochondrial Calcium in Cell Death”

Wed., March 4, 2020

2:30 PM

CSRB RM 563

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Tamas Horvath, D.V.M, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of Comparative Medicine

Director, Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism

Yale University School of Medicine

“Hunger Promotes Life”

Tues., April 14, 2020

11:00 AM 

CSRB RM 563

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Jill Tardiff, M.D. 

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

University of Arizona health Sciences, Sarver Heart Center

“New Mechanisms and Approaches to Targeting Thin Filament Dynamics in Hypertropic and Dilated Cardiomyopathies”

Thurs., May 7, 2020

11:00 AM

CSRB RM 563

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Ju Chen, Ph.D. 

Professor of Medicine

AHA Endowed Chair and Director of Basic Cardiac Research

University of California at San Diego

“BAG3 In Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: A New Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure”

Tues., June 9, 2020

11:00 AM

CSRB RM 563

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John W. Elrod, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Pharmacology

Associate Professor, Center ofr Translational Medicine

Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Temple University

“New Therapeutic Targets for Cardiac Fibrosis”

Thurs., July 9, 2020

11:00 AM

CSRB RM 563

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Daniel P. Kelly, M.D.

Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

“Towards Metabolic Modulator Treatment of Heart Failure”

Thurs., Aug. 27, 2020

11:00 AM 

CSRB 563

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Timothy McKinsey, Ph.D. 

Associate Professor

School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

University of Colorado, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

“Epigenetic Therapies For Heart Failure”

Wed., Sept. 2, 2020

11:00 AM

CSRB 563