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Cardiac Bioelectricity & Arrhythmia Center (CBAC) Seminar Series
Spring
2008 Schedule

Mondays, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
[light hors d'oeuvre reception begins at 5:00 PM before seminar]
Whitaker Hall, Room 218
Washington University Danforth Campus
** Please contact CBAC@biomed.wustl.edu for more information.

 

Date: January 9, 2008

Luca F. Pavarino, Ph.D.
Professor of Numerical Analysis; Department of Mathematics; University of Milano, Italy

“3D Modeling of Ventricular Repolarization: APD Heterogeneity and Extracellular Repolarization Markers”

 
 

January 28, 2008

Charles Antzelevitch, Ph,D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.H.R.S
Executive Director/Director of Research; Gordon K. Moe Scholar; Professor of Pharmacology; Masonic Medical Research Laboratory; Utica, New York

“Atrial Selective Sodium Channel Blockers as a Novel Strategy for
the Management of Atrial Fibrillation”


 
 

February 8, 2008 Friday

Jan P. Kucera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor; Institute of Physiology; University of Bern, Switzerland

“Reentry, Restitution and Random Stimulation: insights from experimental and model studies”

 
 

February 11, 2008

Penelope Boyden, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology: College of Physicians & Surgeons: Columbia University: New York, New York

“Age and the Atrial Substrate”

 
 

February 18, 2008

Jane Chen, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Diseases; Electrophysiology Unit; Washington University in St. Louis

“Learning the AV Node through Ablation”

 
 

February 25, 2008

J. Andrew Wasserstrom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine; Division of Cardiology; Northwestern University; Chicago, Illinois

“Defects in Cellular Ca2+ Cycling in Intact Failing Rat Heart ”

 
 

March 24, 2008

Raymond E. Ideker, M.D., Ph.D.
Jeane V. Marks Professor of Medicine; Professor of Biomedical Engineering;
Professor of Physiology; University of Alabama at Birmingham

“Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation and Defibrillation”

 
 

March 31, 2008

Igor R. Efimov, Ph.D.
The Stanley and Lucy Lopata Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology, and Radiology; Washington University in St. Louis

“Functional Anatomy of the AV Node”

 
 

April 14, 2008

Jianmin Cui, Ph.D.
Associate Professor on the Spencer T. Olin Endowment; Department of Biomedical Engineering;Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology; Washington University in St. Louis

“Voltage Sensor Movements in KCNQ1 Channels: Structure, Function and Mechanism for LQT Syndrome”

 
 

April 21, 2008

Andrew L. Wit, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology; College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; New York, New York

“Gap Junction Remodeling in Ischemic Heart Disease; Molecular Mechanisms and Arrhythmogenesis”

   

May 12, 2008 - JUST ADDED

David Sedmera, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Laboratory Head; Laboratory of Cardiovascular Morphogenesis, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Prague, Czech Republic

“Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis of Cardiac Conduction System ”

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