Seminar Archives
The LSUHSC Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research hosts an exciting Cardiovascular Biology Seminar Series! Renowned scientists from prestigious and innovative institutions visit our Center regularly, sharing ideas and inspiring us to become the best. Please take a moment to view the LSU Health Science Center Medical School - Seminar Calendar. These seminars are golden opportunities to learn and visit with other scientists who aspire with similar interests.
Nanami Senoo, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Functional Significance of Cardiolipin in Mitochondrial Energetics"
December 17, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Jeffrey D. Erickson, PhD
LSU Health Sciences Center
"Novel Presynaptic Agents to Prevent Glutamate-Induced Neural Injury"
December 10, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Licy Lorena Concepcion Yanes Cardozo, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Androgen Excess in Women: Impact on Cardiometabolic Risk"
November 19, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Janos Paloczi MS., PhD
LSU Health Sciences Center
"TBA"
November 12, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB 459
Yingjie Chen, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Effect of T Cells on Heart Failure Development and Heart Failure Progression"
November 5, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Lions 632
Ari Christian Dienel, PhD
UTHealth Houston
"Role of 12/15-LOX and CLOCK in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage"
October 22, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Heddwen L Brooks, PhD
Tulane University
"Sex Differences in Hypertension and Inflammation "
October 15, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Jessica Faulkner, PhD
Augusta State University
"Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Preeclampsia: Causes and Consequences"
September 24, 2024 | 11:30 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Jorge A. Castorena-Gonzalez, PhD
Tulane School of Medicine
“TRPV4-Expressing Tissue Resident Macrophages Regulate the Function of Collecting Lymphatic Vessels: Implications in Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema”
September 17, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Alejandro R. Chade, MD, FAHA
University of Missouri-Columbia
“Cardiac Failure in Chronic Kidney Disease-Translational Models, Potential Mechanisms, and Targets”
September 10, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Mariela Mercedes Gironacci, PhD
Buenos Aires University, Argentina
“The Protective Mas Receptor: Dialogue with Other Receptors”
September 3, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 835
Purnima Singh, PhD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
"Sex Hormones, Eicosanoid System and Hypertension"
June 11, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 459
Tousif Sultan, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Unresolved Inflammation: A Catalyst for Adverse Cardiac Remodeling and Dysfunction”
June 4, 2024 | 11:30 AM | Lions Building Room 632
Amr Salem, DVM, MSC, PhD
Augusta University
"New Players in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Plasticity"
May 28, 2024 | 11:30 AM | Lions Building Room 632
Monica Santisteban, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Role of Meningeal Immunity in Cerebrovascular and Cognitive Impairment in DOCA-Salt Hypertension"
May 14, 2024 | 11:30 AM | Lions Building Room 632
Bruna Visniauskas, PhD
Tulane University School of Medicine
"Blood Pressure Rhythms and Vascular Clock in Hypertension"
May 7, 2024 | 11:30 AM | Nursing Building Lecture Hall C (238)
Justin L. Grobe, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
"Cardiometabolic Control by Angiotensin in the Arcuate Nucleus of the Hypothalamus"
April 23, 2024 | 11:30 AM | Lions Building Room 632
Friederike Claudia Klempin, PD Dr
Charite University Medicine
Berlin, Germany
"Signaling Pathways Linking Behavior and the Vasculature to Neuroplasticity"
April 15, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Jiaxi Xu, Ph.D.
Xi'an Jiaotong University
"An Update for the Brain RAS: Sympathoexcitation and Hypertension-Associated Cognitive Impairment"
April 09, 2024 | 12:00 PM | CSRB Room 366
Na Li, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
"Inflammasome Signaling and Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis"
March 26, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Jia 'Joe' Zhuo, MD, Ph.D.
Tulane University
"What is New About Angiotensin II-induced Hypertension? Roles of Intratubular Angiotensin II in The Proximal Tubules of The Kidney"
January 23, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 835
Aline Oliveira, MSc, PhD
University of Florida
"Neuroimmune Axis Contribution to Pulmonary Hypertension Pathophysiology"
December 5, 2023 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Janos Paloczi MS., Ph.D.
Louisiana State University
"High Times for the Heart: Unraveling the Effects of Cannabinoids on Cardiovascular Function"
October 10, 2023 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Yumei Feng Earley, MD, PhD
University of Nevada-Reno
"Novel Roles of Hypothalamic (pro)renin Receptor Signaling in Blood Pressure Regulation and Obesity-Associated Glucose Metabolic Impairment"
Tue., September 26, 2023 | 12:00 PM | LEC Neuroscience Center Room 835
Sarah Lindsey, PhD
Tulane University
"Vascular Changes After Menopause"
Tue., August 29, 2023 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Pratish Thakore, PhD
University of Nevada, Reno
“Amyloid-β Activates TRPA1 Channels to Impair Neurovascular Coupling During Alzheimer’s Disease”
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 | 12:00 PM | LEC Neuroscience Center Room 835 (Lions Building 8th Floor)
Jasenka Zubcevic, PhD
University of Toledo
"Interoceptive Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Regulation: Role of the Gut Microbiota."
Tuesday June 13, 2023 | 12:00 PM | LEC Neuroscience Center Room 835 (Lions Building 8th Floor)
Amanda Miller, Ph.D.
Penn State College of Medicine
"Cardiovascular Effects of Angiotensin-(1-7) in Aging"
Tuesday June 6, 2023 | 12:00 PM | LEC Neuroscience Center Room 835 (Lions Building 8th Floor)
Inamul Kabir, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
“Vascular Smooth Muscle in Age-Related Atherosclerosis and Metabolic Regulation”
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 11:00 AM | Lions Building Lecture Room 632
Timothy Allerton, Ph.D., RCEP
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University “Exercise Intolerances and Metabolism in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction”
Tuesday March 28, 2023 | 11:30 AM
Jeffery Boychuk, Ph.D
Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology; UT Health San Antonio
"Neocortex Ability to Produce Movement that Functionally Determines Motor Recovery After Brain Insult"
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | 12:00 PM | LEC Neuroscience Center Room 835 (Lions Building 8th Floor)
Xiaohan Lu, Ph.D
Department of Medicine; Duke University Medical Center
“The Role of Porcupine (PORCN) in Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension”
Thursday, January 12 , 2023 | 12:30 PM | Nursing Building Seminar Room 2 (147)
Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD
Director, Diabetes Discovery Research & Sex-Based Medicine Laboratory, Tulane University School of Medicine
"Novel Metabolic Actions of Testosterone Via the Androgen Receptor"
Thursday, December 8, 2022 |12:30 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Dr. Shyam Nandi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cellular & Integrative Physiology
"Targeting Mitochondrial UPR to Mitigate HFpEF Metabolic Remodeling"
Wednesday November 30, 2022 | 12:30 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Dr. Carie Boychuk, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
“High Fat Diet-Induced GABAergic Neuroplasticity in Brainstem Cardiac Vagal Neurons”
Wednesday November 9th , 2022 | 12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Ifechukwude Joachim Biose, Ph.D
Clinical Neuroscience Research Center,Tulane University School of Medicine
“Putting Acute Ischemic Stroke to Bed: a Translational Perspective”
Thursday, October 20, 2022 | 12:00 PM Neuroscience Center | Room 835
Hongpeng Jia, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“ACE2 Modulated Inflammatory Response in the Lung and Beyond”
Thursday, October 6, 2022 |12:00 PM | Lions Building Room 632
Scott Earley, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno
“Col4a1 Mutation Impairs Neurovascular Coupling”
Thursday, September 15, 2022 | 11:00 AM Lions Building | MEB Room 7
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Murray Esler, M.D. Head of Human Neurotransmitters Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute “Consequences of the Evolutionary Cardiovascular Challenge of Human Bipedalism: Orthostatic Intolerance Syndromes, Orthostatic Hypertension, Sustained Hypertension?” |
Thurs., Sept. 5, 2019 3:00 PM CSRB RM 563 |
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Peipei Ping, Ph.D. Professor, Physiology Professor, Medicine/Cardiology, and Bioinformatics Director, NIH BD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA “Understanding Cardiac Pathogenesis Via Machine Learning Approaches” |
Tues., Nov. 26, 2019 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Asa Gustafsson, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pharmacology Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science University of California-San Diego “Mitochondrial Quality Control: The Difference Between Success and Failure” |
Wed., Dec. 11, 2019 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Wilson Tang, M.D. Director, Center for Clinical Genomics Research Director, Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine Lemer Research Institute- The Cleveland Clinic “Diet, Gut Microbiome and Cardio-Renal Disease Risk” |
Date: TBD Time: TBD CSRB RM 563 |
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Zoltan Arany, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Medicine Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania “Novel Players in Mitophagy” |
Tues., Feb. 18, 2020 10:30 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Elizabeth Murphy, Ph.D. Senior Investigator Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology NIH Heart Lung and Blood Institute “The Role of Mitochondrial Calcium in Cell Death” |
Wed., March 4, 2020 2:30 PM CSRB RM 563 |
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Tamas Horvath, D.V.M, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Comparative Medicine Director, Yale Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism Yale University School of Medicine “Hunger Promotes Life” |
Tues., April 14, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Jill Tardiff, M.D. Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of Arizona health Sciences, Sarver Heart Center “New Mechanisms and Approaches to Targeting Thin Filament Dynamics in Hypertropic and Dilated Cardiomyopathies” |
Thurs., May 7, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Ju Chen, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine AHA Endowed Chair and Director of Basic Cardiac Research University of California at San Diego “BAG3 In Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: A New Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure” |
Tues., June 9, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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John W. Elrod, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pharmacology Associate Professor, Center ofr Translational Medicine Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple University “New Therapeutic Targets for Cardiac Fibrosis” |
Thurs., July 9, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB RM 563 |
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Daniel P. Kelly, M.D. Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania “Towards Metabolic Modulator Treatment of Heart Failure” |
Thurs., Aug. 27, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB 563 |
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Timothy McKinsey, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology University of Colorado, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus “Epigenetic Therapies For Heart Failure” |
Wed., Sept. 2, 2020 11:00 AM CSRB 563 |
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Leslie Anne Leinwand, Ph.D. |
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 |
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Alan Daugherty, Ph.D., D.Sc. |
Thursday, February 22, 2018 |
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John Calvert, Ph.D. |
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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Jeffery D. Molkentin, Ph.D. |
Thursday, April 12, 2018
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William C. Sessa, Ph.D. |
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
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Nazareno Paolocci, M.D., Ph.D. |
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
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Hesham Sadek, M.D., Ph.D. |
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 |
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John Elrod, Ph.D. |
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 |
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CANCELLED Giuseppe Cirino, Ph.D., FBPhS, FRBS |
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 |
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W. Robb Maclellan, M.D. |
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 |
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CANCELLED Timothy Kamp, M.D., Ph.D. |
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 |
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CANCELLED Jennifer Van Eyk, Ph.D. |
Thursday, December 6, 2018 |
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Kenneth Walsh, Ph.D. Aram V. Chobanian Distinguished Professor Director, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute Division, Cardiovascular Medicine Boston University School of Medicine “Metabolic and Genetic Risk Factors That Contribute to Cardiovascular Disease.” |
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 11:00 AM CSRB / RM 563 |
| Lawrence H. Young, M.D. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Vice-Chair, Department of Medicine Yale University School of Medicine “Metabolic Signalling in Cardiac Disease.” |
Thursday, February 16, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Leslie A. Leinwand, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute Distinguished Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of Colorado “Myosin Myopathies: Pathogenesis and Therapeutics.” |
Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Gerald W. Dorn, II, M.D. |
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 11: 00 AM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Sumanth D. Prabhu, M.D.
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Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Nazareno Paolocci, M.D., Ph.D. - CANCELLED |
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:00 AM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Joseph C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D. |
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Christopher G. Kevil, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Mark A. Sussman, Ph.D.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Daniel P. Kelly, M.D.
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Rinku Majumder, Ph.D.
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Monday, November 20, 2017 12:00 PM CSRB / RM 563 |
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Douglas L. Mann, M.D.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:00 AM CSRB / RM 563 |
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
PhD. Candidate
Temple University
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Research Center
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Monday, April 11, 2016
“An Epigenetic Checkpoint for Cardiac Hypertrophy Defined by a LncRNA”
Monday, May 2, 2016
Monday, June 10, 2016
Monday, June 20, 2016
"In Vivo Tissue Engineering of Cardiovascular Tissues"
Monday, July 11, 2016
Monday, August 29, 2016
Steven Jones, Ph.D., F.A.H.A., F.A.P.S.
“Metabolism, Remodeling, and Heart Failure”
Monday, September 19, 2016
“Novel Targets in Cardioprotection with Hydrogen Sulfide"
Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology & Biophysics
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Monday, November 7, 2016
Monday, December 5, 2016“Therapeutic Regeneration of the ‘Irreversibly' Injured Heart”
April 27, 2015
Walter J. Koch, Ph.D., F.A.H.A.
May 11, 2015
Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D.
July 10, 2015
Thomas Vondriska, Ph.D.
October 17, 2015
Spencer B. King, III, M.D., M.A.C.C.
October 17, 2015
John W. Elrod, Ph.D.
October 17, 2015
Marvin J. Slepian, M.D.
March 26, 2014
Steven R. Houser, Ph.D. F.A.H.A.
May 2, 2014
Mervyn B. Forman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
Atlanta, Georgia
June 9, 2014
Evan Brittain, M.D.
September 22, 2014
Takafumi Ueno, M.D., Ph.D.
October 14, 2014
Hemal H. Patel, Ph.D.
Past Speakers
Farid Khalafalla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Mark Sussman Lab
San Diego State University Heart Institute and Department of Biology
"Purinergic Signaling: From Salivary Glands To The Heartbeat"
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | 11:00 am CSRB | RM CSRB 563
Sarah Lindsey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine
"Elucidating Estrogen Receptor Mechanisms in the Vascular Wall"
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 | 12:00 pm CSRB | RM CSRB 563
Joy Lincoln, Ph.D..
Principal Investigator, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Nationwide Children's
Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University
Associate Director, Center for Faculty Development, Nationwide Children's Hospital
“Targeting Nuclear Export Proteins in the Treatment of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease”
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 | 12:00 pm MEB | RM MEB S14
Qinglin Yang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Exploring the Regulation and Intervention of Myocardial Metabolism"
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | 1:30 pm CSRB | RM CSRB 752
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Jop van Berlo, M.D., Ph.D.
Lois and Richard King Assistant Professor, Lillehei Endowed Scholar
Lillehei Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota
“Cardiac Regeneration Through Fusion”
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 | 12:00 pm MEB | RM MEB S8 (3220)
Genaro Antonio Ramirez-Correa, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"O-GlcNAc in the Heart: A muscle tonic or poison?"
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | 2:00 pm CSRB | RM 563