The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm. Thursday 21st June Speaker: Gregorio Naredo - WTCRF Mass Spectrometry core lab: Method development and synthesis of non-commercial steroids Thursday 14th June Speakers: Emma Di Rollo - The role of 5alpha-reductase 1 in regulating metabolism and behaviour and Rod Carter - Title to be advised. Thursday 7th June Speakers: James Catterson - Using drosophila to study functional relevance of conserved heart genes and Michal Janiszewski - Invadolysin interacts genetically with another protease non-stop to regulate chromosome structure in Drosophila melanogaster. Thursday 31st May Speakers: Eva Rog-Zielinska - The role of glucocorticoids in fetal heart development and James O'Reilly - Pregnancy, Obesity and the Early Life Programming of Disease Thursday 24th May Speakers: Karen Sooy - Pharmacological Inhibition of 11b-HSD1 in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease and Sharon Vass - Linking Cell Migration and Vascular Development in Zebrafish Thursday 17th May Speakers: Helen Benson, Adam Pawson, Joanna Sharman - Database Tools for Exploring Pharmacological Space Chair: Donald Dunbar Thursday 3rd May Speakers: Jonathan Manning - Bioinformatics in the CVS and Andrew McBride - Pre-clinical development of a novel 11beta-HSD1 inhibitor Chair: tbc Thursday 26th April Speaker: Tiina Kipari - 11b-HSD1 & atherosclerosis Chair: Nik Morton Thursday 29th March Speakers: Lauren Thomas - Computationally Simulating Magnetic Resonance Elastography through Atherosclerotic Plaques and Sowmya Venkatasubramanian - Vascular Effects of Urocortins In Vivo in Man Chair: Chris Kenyon Thursday 22nd March Speaker: Khulan Batbayar - Profiling the glucocorticoid programming model Chair: Nik Morton Thursday 15th March Speaker: Maurits Jansen - Assessment of myocardial viability with magnetic resonance imaging techniques Chair: Nik Morton Thursday 8th March Speaker: Shuji Sai - Can 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase predict glucocorticoid sensitivity/resistance in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia? Chair: Mandy Drake Thursday 1st March Speakers: Paul Hartley - Drosophila Bteb2, a Kruppel-Like Factor mediating pericardial nephrocyte development and Shirjel Alam - Title to be confirmed Chair: Rebecca Reynolds Thursday 23rd February No seminar today. Thursday 16th February Speakers: Xiangton Zou - Glucocorticoids in liver inflammation and fibrosis and Mark Nixon - Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy as a method to visualise intra-cellular steroids Chair: Ruth Andrew Thursday 9th February Speakers: Bryan Conway - Hypertension and hyperglycaemia - double jeopardy for the kidney and Karolina Duthie - The effects of endothelin receptors on neointimal lesion formation Chair: Shakil Ahmad Thursday 2nd February Speaker: Cristina Esteves - Transcriptional regulation of 11b-HSD1 in adipose Chair: Paddy Hadoke Thursday 26th January Speaker: Keqing Wang - Toll-like receptor aActivated neutrophils induce soluble Endoglin release from endothelial cells Chair: Ruth Andre All welcome. Publication date 18 Jun, 2015
