Fibrillin microfibrils and elastic fibres in vascular disease: genotype-phenotype studies

Sandwiches and tea/coffee provided from 12.30 pm

Professor Cay Kielty, Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Manchester.

Lecture theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Big Macs, bacteria and the gut: New roles for Toll-like receptors in atherosclerosis?

Dr Clett Erridge, Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Pharmacology of prostacyclin: relevance to pulmonary hypertension

Professor Jane Mitchell, Head of Cardiothoracic Pharmacology, Imperial College, London.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Interleukin-1, Vascular Injury & Atherosclerosis

Dr Sheila Francis, Reader in Cardiovascular Science, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

The sarcomeric Z-disk, a central structure for cardiomyocyte function and survival

Professor Ralph Knoell, Professor of Myocardial Genetics, Imperial College, London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

A Redox Switch in Angiotensinogen Modulates Angiotensin Release

Aiwu Zhou, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, Dept of Haematology, Cambridge.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Diabetes causes bone marrow microangiopathy and remodelling of stem cell niches

Professor Paolo Maddedu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine, Bristol Heart Institute.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cytoprotective Mechanisms in the Vasculature - a Potential Therapeutic Target?

Professor Justin Mason, Professor of Vascular Rheumatology, Hammersmith Hospital.

Seminar Room 6, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

BMP/TGF-β signalling in disease: from genetics to 3D structure

Dr Alex Bullock, PI, Growth Factor Signalling Group, SGC, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 September 2010, 13:00-14:00

Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells

Dr Sanjay Sinha, Cardiovascular Medicine (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 July 2010, 13:00-14:00

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.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Tuesday 08 June 2010, 13:00-14:00

Proliferation Unleashed: The role and regulation of Skp2 in vascular smooth muscle cells

Dr Mark Bond, Lecturer, Bristol Heart Institute.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

TGFbeta signalling in cardiovascular development and disease

Marie-Jose Goumans, Associate Professor Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Centre.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Translating NF-kappaB; A Rel of a Problem

Fiona Oakley, University of Newcastle.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Mesoderm induction revisited

Dr Jim Smith, Director, MRC National Institute for Medical Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, Clinical School, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Signalling via PI3Ks in Neutrophils

Professor Len Stephens, Babraham Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Friday 17 July 2009, 13:00-14:00

AAA - can we fix it?

Dr Gillian Cockerill, Senior Lecturer Academic Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. George's.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 July 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

Institute of Metabolic Science Seminar Rooms 1&2, Cambridge.

Monday 18 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

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.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 09 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cellular targets of prostacyclin analogues in pulmonary hypertension

Professor Lucie Clapp, Medicine, UCL.

Lecture Theatre 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

p53 in the myocardium

Dr Roger Foo, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Seminar Room 3, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

An Approach to Molecular MRI in Atherosclerosis and Vascular Inflammation

Dr Robin Choudhury, Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow, Oxford University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf, Dept of Pulmonology, Vrije Universiteit, Medical Center Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre, Papworth Hospital.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Loss and Gain of Function in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Pathway

Sandwiches and tea/coffee will be provided from 12.30pm.

Dr Paul Yu, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Application of Metabolomics to Diabetes, Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease

Sandwiches and tea/coffee will be provided from 12.30pm.

Dr Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Regulation of Lung Epithelial Stem Cells by Stress-Activated Protein Kinases

Juan-Jose Ventura, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Leukocyte recruitment to the advanced plaque?

Sandwiches and tea/coffee will be provided from 12.30pm

Professor Erik Biessen, Leiden University.

Seminar Room 5, Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Pulmonary hypertension; what’s so special about the lung?

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Paul McCloughlin, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Conway Institute, University College, Dublin.

Seminar Room 10, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis by N-cadherin: implications for atherosclerotic plaque stability

Cardiovascular Medicine Seminar

Sarah George, Reader in Vascular Biology, Bristol Heart Institute.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrooke’s.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00