Vascular Biology – VBIO 9010

                              Director : Dr. Huabo Su - hsu@augusta.edu 

Seminar Schedule: Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

              FALL 2023                                    Seminars will be held in CL-1101 of the Hamilton Wing unless noted otherwise

Date

Speaker

August 16
Rafael Czepielewski, PhD, Assistant Professor
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University 
Title: "Organ Outflow Dynamics: Lymphatics Orchestrating Immunity's Symphony"
August 23
Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD, Professor
Division of Endocrinlogy and Metabolism, Department of internal Medicine, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA
Host: Brian Annex , MD
Title: "Exploration of Mechanisms Contributing to Poor Disease Outcomes in Diabetic Peripheral Artery Disease"
August 30
Qian Ma, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Mentor: Yuqing Huo, PhD
Title: "De novo purine synthesis in vascular diseases"
September 6 Yanfang  'Peipei' Zhu, PhD, Assistant Professor
Immunology Center of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University 
Title: "Epigenetic Regulation of Neutrophil Heterogeneity Against Cancer"
September 13 Sihem Boudina, PhD, Professor of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology
College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Host: Huabo Su, PhD
Title: "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulators of Inflammation‐Resolution Signaling in Cardiac Repair and Heart Failure"
September 20 Jaser Doja, PhD Candidate in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Joe Miano, PhD
Title: "Interrogating Myocardin Regulation and Binding Targets"
September 27 Yun Fang, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine-Pumonary and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Co-Hosts: Tohru Fukai, MD, PhD and Masuki Ushio-Fukai, PhD
Title: "Precision Nanomedicine Targeting Novel Endothelial Mechano-Sensing Mechanisms to Treat Vascular Diseases"
October 4 David Kim, PhD Candidate in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, MD/PhD student at Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Neal Weintraub, MD
Title: "Novel role of lncRNA in neointima formation in human Saphenous Vein"
October 11 Ganesh Halade, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida Heart Institute, Tampa, FL
Host: Jie Li, MD, PhD
Title: "Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regulators of Inflammation‐Resolution Signaling in Cardiac Repair and Heart Failure"
October 18 Saurabh Aggarwal, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Host: David Fulton, PhD
Title: "HIV‐Associated Chronic Widespread Pain: Role of Peripheral Immune Cells"
October 25 Michael Koval, PhD, Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Alergy and Critical Care a Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Host: Rudolf Lucas, PhD
Title: "Regulation of vascular function by Pannexin-1
November 1 Redouane Aherrahrou, PhD,  Senior Researcher
Institute for Cardiogenetics, University of Luebeck, Germany/University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Host: David Fulton, PhD Title: "TBA" 
November 8 Hunter Sellers, PhD Candidate in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: David Fulton, PhD
Title: "TBA"
November 15 Andrew H. Baker, PhD, Professor of Translational Cardiovascular Sciences
Head of Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Host:  Joseph Miano, PhD
Title: "TBA"
November  22 NO Seminar
November 29

Josue Zambrano-Carracus, PhD Student in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Huabo Su, PhD
Title: "TBA

Maria Blahove, PhD Student in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Gabor Csanyi, PhD
Title: "TBA"

December 6  
December  13

Zach Brown, PhD Student in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: David Fulton, PhD
Title: "TBA"

Mitch Shivers, PhD Student in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: David Fulton, PhD
Title: "TBA"

December 20

Cody Rosewater, PhD Student in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: David Stepp, PhD
Title: "TBA

Chang Min Lee, PhD Student
in Vascular Biology, Vascular Biology Center, Medical College of Georgia
Mentor: Jie Li, MD, PhD
Title: "TBA

December 27 NO Seminar

              SPRING 2024

Date Speaker
January 3  
January 10  
January 17  
January 24  
January 31  
February 7  
February 14  
February 21  
February 28  
March 6  
March 13  
March 20  
March 27  
April 3  
April 10 No Seminar   -    Spring Break
April 17  
April 24  
May 1  
May 8  
May 15  
May 22  
May 29