Monday Lab Meeting

Ross Hall Rm 454, 10am-11:30am

Participants: lab members, affiliated students, visitors. All are welcome.



Aug 18, 2008. Huda Asfour presents: Rentschler et al. Visualization and functional characterization of the developing murine cardiac conduction system. Development. 2001

Aug 11, 2008. Narine Sarvazyan presents: Cerrano et al Arrhythmogenic Mechanisms in a Mouse Model of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia.Circulation 2007

Aug 5, 2008. General lab meeting. Data discussion

July 22, 2008. Craig Forleiter presents: Noujaim et al. Universal scaling law of electrical turbulence in the mammalian heart. PNAS 2007

July 14, 2008. Huda Asfour presents: Epicardial progenitors contribute to the cardiomyocyte lineage in the developing heart. Nature, July 2008

June 30, 2008. Marco Mercader, MD. ST segment elevation in myocardial infarction.

June 23, 2008. Matthew Kay presents: Buckberg GD. The helix and the heart. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2002 Nov;124(5):863-83

June 16, 2008. Zara Karabekian. Desmosomes and desmosmosal proteins

June 9, 2008 Craig Forleiter and Luther Swift. An overview of cardiac injection techniques

June 2, 2008 Nikki Gillum presents: Desplantez T et al. Gap junction channels and cardiac impulse propagation.J Membr Biol. 2007

May 27, 2008 Brian Martell. Pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischemia: an overview

May 19, 2008 Matthew Kay. Specific Aims for upcoming RO1 application

May 12, 2008 Zara Karabekian presents: Cohen E.D. et al, Wnt signaling - an essential regulator of cardiovascular differentiation morphogenesis and progenitor self-renewal. Development 135, 789-798, 2008.

May 5, 2008 Huda Asfour presents: Strukov et al, The missing resistor found. Nature 2008

April 21, 2008 General lab meeting: data presentation

April 7, 2008 Discussion with Drs. Mercader & Vargese. State of the myocardium near the ablation sites.

March 31, 2008 Luther Swift presents: Laflamme et al, Formation of human myocardium in the rat heart from human embryonic stem cells. Am.J.Pathology 2005

March 24, 2008 Zara Karabekian. Overexpression of N-cadherin as means to improve engraftment efficiency

March 17, 2008 General lab meeting: data presentation

March 10 Preparation of posters for GWU Research Day

March 4, 2008 Amit Sangave presents: Wasmeer et al, Real time myocardial contrast echocardiography for assessing perfusion and function in healthy and infracted Wistar rats. Ultrasound in Med& Biol. 2008. Discussion with Dr. Vezna Zderic

February 25, 2008 Jay Bhatt presents: Patterson and Kirk. Coronary steal mechanism in dogs with one vessel occlusion and other arteries normal. Circ Res. 1983

February 11, 2008 General lab meeting: data presentation

February 4, 2008 Huda Asfour presents: Ott et al, Perfusion-decellularized matrix: using nature's platform to engineer a bioartificial heart. Nature Medicine 14, 213-221, 2008

January 28, 2008 Nikki Gillum: Behavior of N-cadherin overexpressing embryonic stem cells (part of GWU Pharm & Phys Seminar Series)

January 21, 2008 Nikki Gillum: Overview of recent data on cardiac differentiation of embryonic stem cells

January 14, 2008 General lab meeting: data presentation

December 10, 2007 Huda Asfour presents: Qui et al. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of the cardiomyocyte adhesion to extracellular matrix on microfabricated biosensors. IEEE 2007

December 3, 2007 Narine Sarvazyan: DEHP effects on neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.

November 26, 2007 Zara Karabekian presents: Takahashi et al. Induction of pluropotent stem cells from adult human fibroblasts by defined factors. Cell, 2007. and Yu J. et al. Induced pluripotent stem cell lines derived from human somatic cells. Science 2007.

November 19, 2007 Nikki Gillum presents: Oxford EM et al, Connexin 43 remodelling caused by inhibition of plakobin-2 expression in cardiac cells. Circ Res 2007

November 12, 2007, noon -1pm Thomas Pressley, Texas Tech University (part of GWU Pharm & Phys Seminar Series) “Isoform Diversity: Na,K-pump”

November 5, 2007 General lab meeting: data presentation

October 30, 2007 Felipe Aguel, FDA. FDA Electrophysiogy and Electrical Ablation laboratory

October 22, 2007 Alexander Jeremic, GWU Biology Dept. Atomic force microscopy, cell secretion, and fusion pore assembly.