Seminars

Lunch discussion with Dr. Shaun R. Coughlin, UCSF, Evans Lectureship 2003

10/15/09

Mark Nicolls, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine-Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University
"Immune Reconstitution of Immunodeficient Rats Attenuates Lung Inflammation, Right Ventricular Remodeling and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension."

11/12/09

Ching-Pin Chang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
"Epigenetic Regulation of Heart Development and Disease"

12/10/09

Tero-Pekka Alastalo, MD, PhD
Post doctoral fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University (Mentor: Marlene Rabinovitch. MD)
"Impaired BMP Signaling and Novel Cross-Talk Between PPARg and ß-Catenin Contribute to Endothelial Cell Dysfunction in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"

1/7/10

David Cornfield, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, and Director, The Center of Excellence in Pulmonary Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Developmental Regulation of Oxygen Sensing in The Lung"

1/28/10

William Robinson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Immunology and Rheumatology, Stanford University
"Tyrosine Kinase Pathways in Autoimmune Disease"

2/4/10

Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil
Assistant Professor of Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University
"Re-Integrating Biology: Systems, Pathways and Translation to Practice in Cardiovascular Medicine"

2/11/10

Benoit G. Bruneau, PhD
Associate Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco
"Chromatin Remodeling and Transcriptional Regulation of Heart Development"

2/18/10

Howard Y Chang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Programming Chromatin States by Long Noncoding RNAs"

2/25/10

Dean Sheppard, MD
Professor and Associate Chair for Biomedical Research (Department of Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care Division); Director, Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco
"In vivo Functions of Integrins"

3/4/10

Jeffrey J. Wine, PhD
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Professor of Psychology, Neurosciences and (by courtesy) Pediatrics, and Director, Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory, Stanford University
 "Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease"

3/18/10

Cristina Alvira, MD
Instructor in Pediatrics - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University
"The Role of NFkappaB Signaling in Postnatal Lung Development"

(TBD)

Brian Kobilka, MD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University
"Structure and Dynamics of the Human Beta 2 Adrenergic Receptor"

4/8/10

Charles A. Taylor, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Surgery, Stanford University
"Image-Based Modeling of Blood Flow in the Pulmonary Arteries"

4/15/10

Mark A. Kay, MD, PhD
Dennis Farrey Family Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics; Vice Chair for Basic Research (Pediatrics), Stanford University
"Gene and RNAi Based Therapies: Bench to Bedside to Bench"

4/22/10

Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD
Instructor in Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University
"The Role of Wnt/PCP Signaling in Pulmonary Angiogenesis: A New Paradigm for Understanding PAH"

6/3/10

Roham T. Zamanian, MD, FCCP
Assistant Professor of Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine; Director, Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Clinical Service, Stanford University
“Pulmonary Hypertension: A Perspective on Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies in a Heterogeneous Population”

6/10/10

Suzanne Pfeffer, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University
"Rab GTPase Control of Receptor Trafficking"

6/17/10

Yumee Kim, PhD
Post doctoral fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University (Mentor: Marlene Rabinovitch)
"Murine gamma Herpesvirus Infection-Induced Pulmonary Vascular Disease in S1000A4 Overexpressing Mice"