Past Lab Meetings
June 25, 2009. noon - 1pm. Luther Swift presents his lab rotation experiences.
June 16, 2009. noon -1pm. Huda Asfour presents: Miragoli et al. Electrotonic Modulation of Cardiac Impulse Conduction by Myofibroblasts and
Jacquemet & Henriquez. Modelling cardiac fibroblasts: interactions with myocytes and their impact on impulse propagation.
June 10, 2009. 10am -12. Nikki Gillum. Microarrays: technical overview.
May 15, 2009. 4-6pm. General lab meeting.
May 6, 2009. 2-3pm. Huda Asfour. Measurements of microimpedance in biological tissues.
April 27, 2009. noon - 1pm. Rm 643 Michael Laflamme (Invited lecture). Cardiac Applications for Human Embryonic Stem Cells.
April 9, 2009. 2-2.30pm. Zara Karabekian presents Bergman et al. Evidence for Cardiomyocyte Renewal in Humans.
Olaf Bergmann, et al. Science 324, 98 (2009)
April 9, 2009. 1.30-2pm. Nikki Gillum presents: Yu et al. Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Free of Vector and Transgene Sequences.
Science, 26 March 2009.
March 20, 2009. 12-5pm. Rm 643 Nikki Gillum. Doctoral Defense
March 13, 2009. FDA campus Silver Springs. 1-2pm. Nikki Gillum. Clinical concentrations of DEHP uncouple cardiac network
Feb 12, 2009. 3-4pm. Andrew Pollard (UAB). Discussion of impedance data
Feb 5, 2009. 3-5pm. Luther Swift. Back to Basics: Spiral Wave Activity
Jan 30, 2009. 3-5pm. Huda Asfour. Back to Basics: Basic Mechanisms of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Jan 23, 2009. 3-5pm. Nikki Gillum. Back to Basics. Rate Dependency of Discontinuous Propagation
Jan 16, 2009. 3-5pm. Zara Karabekian. Back to Basics: Pacemaker Synchronization
Jan 6, 2009. 3-5pm. Luther Swift. Back to Basics: Propagation Through Cardiac Muscle
Dec 15, 2008. 3-5pm. Huda Asfour. Back to Basics: Ion Channel Regulation
Dec 9, 2008. 3-5pm. Alta Berger. Back to Basics: Ion Channels
Dec 2, 2008. 3-5pm. Nikki Gillum. Back to Basics: Bioelectricity
Nov 14, 2008. 1-2pm. Fred Vetter. Cardiac Mechanics.
Oct 13, 2008. Nikki Gillum. Pharm seminar presentation: Mechanisms by which DEHP affects cardiac conduction.
Oct 6, 2008. 1pm - 2pm. Marco Mercader presents: Gibson et al. Association of Impaired Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction.JACC 2008
Sept 29, 2008. 1pm - 2pm. Matthew Kay presents data on Purkinje fibers in partial reperfusion.
Sept 16, 2008. 11AM-noon Nikki Gillum presents: Gillum et al. Clinical concentrations of DEHP uncouple cardiac network
Sept 8, 2008. Zara Karabekian presents: Zhou et al. In vivo reprogramming of adult pancreatic exocrine cells to beta-cells. Nature 2008
Aug 26, 2008. Matthew Kay presents: Fujiwara et al. Burst Emergence of Intracellular Ca.. Circulation 2008
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, 2008 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.