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.