Early Career Research Roundtable
The Early Career Research Roundtable is a fantastic opportunity for early career scientists to share their cool discoveries, receive feedback on their current projects, and hone their presentation skills in an environment primarily of their peers. Each month presenters share their work in the form of 20 minute talks with 10 minutes for questions. Hybrid events will have free drinks and snacks for in-person attendees.
If you are interested in presenting at a future Roundtable as an invited speaker, please contact the CVI Early Career Committee or Adrienne Mueller.
Next Roundtable: May 12, 2023 | 11–12 pm
Hybrid in BMI 1021 and via Zoom
Erica Schwarz
Graduate Student
Lab of Alison Marsden, PhD
"Simulating Patient-Specific Vascular Growth and Remodeling Using a Fluid-Solid-Growth Framework"
Martin Pfaller, PhD
Instructor in Pediatrics
Lab of Alison Marsden, PhD
"Predicting the Path to Heart Failure with Computational Modeling"
Past Roundtables
April 14, 2023
Ashish Manohar, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Koen Nieman, MD, PhD
"Functional and texture analysis of the human left ventricle with cardiac CT"
Chinyere Agbaegbu Iweka, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Katrin Andreasson, MD
"The immunometabolic response to stroke injury in aging"
March 10, 2023
Ewa Bielczyk-Maczyńska, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Katrin Svensson, PhD
"A new role of the low-density lipoprotein receptor in adipose tissue biology"
Kacper Rogala, PhD
Assistant Professor of Structural Biology and of Chemical Systems Biology
"Mechanisms of nutrient sensing and nutrient trafficking in cells"
February 10, 2023
Anna Hnatiuk Hnatiuk, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Mark Mercola, PhD
"Screening and improving cardiovascular toxicities of Tirosine Kinase Inhibitors"
Gabriel Mistelbauer, PhD
Senior Research Engineer
Lab of Dominik Fleischmann, MD
"Visual Computing for Vascular Structures"
January 11, 2023
Bruna Filipa Gomes Botelho Quintas, MD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Euan Ashley, MD, PhD
"Genetic architecture of cardiac dynamic flow volumes"
Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Lab of Ovijit Chaudhuri, PhD
"Cell volume expansion and local contractility control basement membrane breaching in breast cancer"
December 8, 2022
Rebecca Zhang, PhD
Lab of Cristina Alvira, MD
"Alterations of Aerocyte Capillary Phenotype During Postnatal Development and in Response to Injury"
Sangkyun Cho, PhD
Lab of Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
"Inhibition of Src-mediated mechanosensing potentiates the reversal of activated cardiac fibroblasts and alleviates contractile dysfunction in fibrotic hearts"
November 10, 2022
Kamir Hiam-Galvez, PhD
Lab of Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
"Plasticity of clonaal CD8 T cell differentiation"
Xiaotao Shen, PhD
Lab of Michael Snyder, PhD
"Bioinformatics method development for mass spectrometry and its application to precision medicine"
October 6, 2022
Graham Erwin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics
Lab of Michael Snyder, PhD
"Recurrent repeat expansions in human cancer genomes"
Carlos Vera, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Lab of Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
"Rigor Studies in Cardiovascular Medicine"
September 8, 2022
Sai Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics
Lab of Michael Snyder, PhD
"Machine learning identifies cell-type-specific molecular determinants of severe COVID-19"
Sasha Zemsky
PhD Student, Biophysics
Lab of Zev Bryant, PhD
"Design and characterization of optically controllable filamentous myosins"
August 11, 2022
Aditya Mukund
MD/PhD Student, Biophysics
Lab of Alison Marsden, PhD
"High-throughput functional characterization of combinations of transcriptional activating and repressing domains"
Marcus Frost
PhD Student, Applied Physics
Lab of Stephen Quake, PhD
"Pressure controlled capillaroscopy"
July 14, 2022
Jason Szafron, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Engineering
Lab of Alison Marsden, PhD
"Growth and remodeling of the pulmonary arterial tree with evolving hemodynamic feedback"
Karthik Menon, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation
Lab of Alison Marsden, PhD
"Patient-specific simulations of coronary hemodynamics for myocardial ischemic risk assessment"
Matthew Park
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
"Translational biomechanics for Cardiac Surgery optimization and enhancement"
June 16, 2022
Crystal Xu, PhD
Lab of Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD
"Using Metalearners for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Survival Outcomes in Clinical Trials"
Qiao Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Statistics
Lab of Wing Wong, PhD
"scTrace: Time series single-cell trajectory inference using deep generative models"
May 19, 2022
Special Event
"Starting a Course from Scratch" | Event Recording
Dr. Alexander Dunn, Dr. Ngan Huang, and Dr. Gloriana Trujillo presented on the mechanics of developing a course, key considerations and best practices in developing a new course, how to learn good teaching strategies, and how to understand and embrace a diversity of students with a wide range of needs.
Alexander Dunn, PhD
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Ngan Huang, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and by courtesy, Chemical Engineering
Gloriana Trujillo, PhD
Director, Faculty and Lecturer Programs, Center for Teaching and Learning
April 14, 2022
Jennifer Kong, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
Lab of Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of morphogen sensitivity underlying congenital heart defects"
Colwyn Headley, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Medicine
Lab of Philip S. Tsao, PhD
"Rescuing aging associated immune and cardiovascular dysfunction through mitochondrial transfer"
March 10, 2022
Neha Nandwani, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry
Lab of James Spudich, PhD
"Exploring the Link Between Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and the Inhibited Super-relaxed State of Myosin"
February 10, 2022
Nirmal Vadgama, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
Lab of Casey Gifford, PhD
"Identifying noncoding loci involved in congenital disorders"
Alison Schroer Vander Roest, PhD
Instructor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Lab of Daniel Bernstein, MD
"Modeling the mechanobiology of cardiac disease across scales"
January 13, 2022
Gabriella Martyn, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Lab of Jesse Engreitz, PhD
"Systematically characterizing non-coding variants via prime-editing"
Qin Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetics
Lab of Jin Billy Li, PhD
"Reduced RNA editing is a major risk factor for inflammatory diseases"
November 11, 2021
Kathrin Bäumler, PhD
Research Engineer
Radiology – Diagnostic Radiology
"Fluid-structure Interaction Simulations in Aortic Dissections"
Seraina A. Dual, DSc.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Radiological Sciences Laboratory
"Sensor Systems to Predict, Prevent and Cure Cardiovascular Disease"
October 14, 2021
Grants 101: Career Development Awards
Panel discussion with faculty to give you insights into the different funding mechanisms (AHA, NIH, etc.) and how to leverage different proposal mechanisms for your own career development. Come prepared to ask questions.
Panelists:
Sushma Reddy, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Ngan Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Moderators:
Chengyi Tu, PhD
Ebrahim Mostafavi, PhD
September 9, 2021
Tomi Obafemi, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lab of Anson Lee, MD
"High Resolution Mapping of Ventricular Tachycardia and Ex Vivo MRI Using a Langendorff Model"
Rohan Shad, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lab of William Hiesinger, MD
"Deep Learning and High Dimensional Cardiovascular Imaging"
August 12, 2021
Mathias Peirlinck, ScD
Postdoc
Lab of Ellen Kuhl, PhD
"The Digital Twin Heart for Improved Patient Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Planning"
July 8, 2021
Eran Blacher, PhD
Postdoc
Lab of Katrin Andreasson
"The Intestine as a Second Front of Innate Immune Activation After Stroke"
Herra Ahmad
Graduate Student
Lab of Jaiswal Siddhartha, MD, PhD
"Single-cell Analysis of Human Atherosclerotic Lesions Harboring CHIP-mutated Blood Cells"
June 1o, 2021 | Video
Annika M. Dries, BA
Medical Student
Lab of Victoria N. Parikh, MD, PhD
"Defining the Genetic Architecture of PKP2 Cardiomyopathy"
Vedant Pargaonkar, MBBS
Research Scientist
Lab of Jennifer Tremmel, MD
"Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Chest Pain and no Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease"
May 13, 2021 | Video
Alice Popejoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biomedical Data Sciences
Lab of Carlos Bustamante, PhD
"Diversity Measures and [Mis]Classification in Research and Precision Medicine"
Yosuke Tanigawa
PhD Student
Biomedical Informatics program
Lab of Gill Bejerano, PhD
"Which TF is Functionally Important in your Open Chromatin Data?"
April 8, 2021 | Video
Dilip Thomas, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Institute
Lab of Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
"Elucidating the Effects of Spaceflight on Engineered Heart Tissues"
Jack Hu
PhD Student
Materials Science and Engineering
Lab of Jennifer Dionne, PhD
"Sensitive and Multiplexed Genetic Analysis with High Quality Factor Metasurfaces"
March 11, 2021
Christopher Madl, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology
Lab of Helen Blau, PhD
"Engineering Cellular Microenvironments to Probe the Dynamics of Mechanotransduction"
Ivan Carcamo Oribe, PhD
Senior Research Scientist – Basic Life, Medicine / Cardiovascular Medicine
Lab of Josh Knowles, MD, PhD
"Modeling Insulin Resistance With Human iPSCs: Past and Future Challenges"
February 11, 2021
Bibek Paudel, PhD
Lab of Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
"Using Electronic Health Records to Understand Personal and Public Health Risks"
Kenzo Ichimura, MD, PhD
Lab of Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD
"Vascular Adaptation of the Right Ventricle to an Increased Afterload in Pulmonary Hypertension"
December 10, 2020
Brian Wayda, MD
Lab of Kiran Khush, MD
"Impact and cost-effectiveness of using HCV+ donors for heart transplant: a simulation-based policy analysis"
Alexander Perino, MD
Lab of Paul J. Wang, MD
"Improving hard outcomes for heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation through rhythm control"
November 12, 2020
Asuka Eguchi, PhD
Lab of Helen Blau, PhD
"Role of Telomere Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy"
Francesca Briganti, PhD
Lab of Mark Mercola, PhD
"RBM20 regulation: New opportunities for targeted treatment of DCM"
October 8, 2020
Anthony Crimarco, PhD
Postdoc, School of Medicine
Christopher Gardner Lab
"Results of a Clinical Trial Comparing the Effect of Consuming Plant-based Meats vs. Animal Meats on TMAO and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Generally Healthy Adults"
Neil Kalwani, MD
Chief Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Paul Heideinreich Lab
"Impact of Productivity Measurement and Practice Staffing on Cardiologist Productivity in the Veterans Health Administration"
September 10, 2020
Hesam Movassagh, PHD
Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research
Kari Nadeau Lab
"A Non-redundant Role for Particulate Pollutants in Dysregulation of Circulating Monocyte"
Shravani Pasupneti, MD
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Mark Nicolls Lab
"Endothelial HIF-2α as a Key Endogenous Mediator Preventing Emphysema"
August 13, 2020
Soah Lee, PhD
Sean Wu Lab
"Contact Inhibition in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation"
Chengyi Tu, PhD
Joseph Wu Lab
"A human iPSC platform for tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy"
July 9, 2020
Fudi Wang, PhD
Elsie Ross Lab
"Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score–Enhanced Prediction Model for Peripheral Artery Disease"
Toru Ikezoe, PhD
Ronald Dalman Lab
"Hyperlipidemia and abdominal aortic aneurysms"
June 11, 2020
Vahid Serpooshan, PhD
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
"Cardiovascular tissue bioprinting; From basic science to clinical research"
Jiannan Li, PhD
Peter Yang Lab
"Bridging soft-rigid tissues with hybrid bioprinting"
May 14, 2020
Mark Chandy, MD
Joseph Wu Lab
"Atlas of Exosomal microRNAs Secreted from Human iPSC-derived Cardiac Cell Types"
Emma Monte, PhD
Michael Snyder Lab
"Searching for a cardiomyopathy-stratifying phenotype using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes"
February 13, 2020
Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil
Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"
Stephanie Lindsey, PhD
Alison Marsden Lab
"Origins and treatment of congenital heart disease: a combined experimental-computational approach"
January 16, 2019
Ngan Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
"A Biomaterials-based Approach for Vascular Regeneration"
Joscha Mulorz, MD
Philip Tsao Lab
"Accelerating effects of nicotine and e-cigarettes on experimental aortic aneurysms"
December 16, 2019
Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil
Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"
Xiaoming Ouyang, PhD
Joesph Wu Lab
"The Antitumor Effects of an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-based Cancer Vaccine in Pancreatic Cancer"
November 14, 2019
Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
"Single-Cell Genomics in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Francesca Briganti, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mark Mercola Lab
"RBM20 Regulation in Healthy and Diseased Cardiomyocytes: A New Opportunity for Targeted Therapeutics"
October 17, 2019
Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD
Director, BioADD
"Therapeutic delivery of degrading disulfiram for the restoration of heart and brain functions affected by persistent Lyme disease"
Adam Bush, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shreyas Vasanawala Lab
"Simultaneous, Motion Robust Liver and Cardiac Iron Assessment using Rosette MRI"
September 19, 2019
Edgar Engleman, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
"Manipulating Myeloid Cells for the Treatment of Disease"
Ying Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicholas Leeper Lab
"Clonally-expanding smooth muscle cells promote atherosclerosis by escaping efferocytosis and activating the complement cascade"
August 20, 2019
Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology and Immunology
"Targeting Hyaluronan Synthesis to Promote Heart Transplant Survival"
Hao Zhang, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joe Wu Lab
"Generation of Quiescent Cardiac Fibroblasts from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for in vitro Modeling of Cardiac Fibrosis"
June 12, 2019
Guillem Pratx, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology & Medical Physics
"Human-derived microphysiological tissue models: The next frontier for PET imaging"
Sangkyun Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Mechanosensing by the lamina protects against nuclear rupture, DNA damage, and cell cycle arrest"
May 23, 2019
Themistocles (Tim) Assimes, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, and of Health Research and Policy
"Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in the Million Veteran Program"
Catherine Tcheandjieu, DVM, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
James Priest Lab, Tim Assimes Lab
"Fine mapping of the 9p21 locus for Coronary Artery Disease in the Million Veteran Program"
April 18, 2019
Helen Blau, PhD
Professor & Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology
"Short telomeres: hallmark of heart failure?"
William Goodyer, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sean Wu Lab
"Transcriptomic Profiling of the Developing Cardiac Conduction System at Single-Cell Resolution"
March 14, 2019
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
"Coronary Artery Development and Regeneration"
Nadjet Belbachir, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Brugada syndrome: a new gene characterized using IPSC derived cardiomyocytes"
February 20, 2019
Ronald Dalman, MD
Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery
"What can Diabetes Teach Us about Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease?"
Dan Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marlene Rabinovitch Lab
"ALDH1A3 Regulates Chromatin Remodeling and Pro-proliferative Genes of Smooth Muscle Cells in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
January 16, 2019
Eric Appel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
"Supramolecular Biomaterials for Prevention of Post-Operative Adhesion"
Eneko Axpe, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eric Appel Lab
"Solute diffusion in hydrogels"
December 12, 2018
Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD
- Founding Director, Biomaterials and Advanced Drug Delivery Laboratory, Stanford Medicine
- Adjunct Full Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF
"Survival of the Sickest: Pharmaceutical interventions to improve transplanted stem cells and solid organ survival"
Ke Yuan, PhD, FAHA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Vinicio de Jesus Perez Lab
"Lung Pericytes act as Smooth Muscle Cell Precursors in Hypoxia Induced Pulmonary Hypertension"
Edward Lau, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Using gene-publication distance for disease annotation and target prioritization"
November 27, 2018
Michelle C. Odden, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy
"Cardiovascular Prevention, Healthy Aging, and Heterogeneity in Risk"
Alice B. Popejoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carlos Bustamante Lab
"Beyond 'Other': Examining Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry in Clinical Genomics"
Siyeon Rhee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kristy Red-Horse Lab
"Coronary angiogenesis and non-compaction cardiomyopathy"
October 10, 2018
PI: Eugene Butcher, MD
Klaus Bensch Professor in Pathology
"High dimensional single cell profiling of blood vascular endothelial cells: endothelial origins and differentiation in immune angiogenesis"
Jan W. Buikema, MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sean Wu Lab
"Wnt Signaling Induces Maturation Arrest and Massive Expansion of Beating Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
Joetsaroop Bagga
Medical Student (MS3)
Tomas Quertermous Lab
"The role of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in coronary artery disease"
September 12, 2018
PI: Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
"Combining Human–omics and Molecular Biology to Understand Insulin Resistance and Related Conditions"
Lei Tian, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Single-Cell RNA-seq Identifies Molecular and Functional Signatures of Organ-Specific Endothelium"
Adelaida Palla, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Helen Blau Lab
"Novel Inflammatory Mediator that is Essential for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration"
August 22, 2018
PI: Michael Snyder, PhD
Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
"Personal Profiles with Wearables"
Kevin Brulois, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Pathology, Stanford
Eugene Butcher Lab
"Single Cell Transcriptomics of Blood Endothelial Cells"
Cheng-Yu Tsai, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford
Ronglih Liao Lab
"Stress hormones Linking Cigarette Smoking to Cardiac Dysfunction"
July 25, 2018
PI: Holden Maecker, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
"Assessing Human Immune Competence: Relation to Cardiovascular Risk"
Qing Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Michael Snyder Lab
"Crosstalk between GATA4 and Mitochondria During Cardiomyocyte Differentiation upon Exposure to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors"
Kwang-Min Kim, PhD
Basic Life Science Research Scientist
Jay Rajadas Lab
"Human 3D In Vitro Neurovasculature Model for the Application of Human Vascular Disease Study"
June 5, 2018
PI: Thomas Quertermous, MD
William G. Irwin Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford Department of Medicine
"Mechanisms of Coronary Artery Disease Risk: Lessons from the GWAS"
Fahd Yunus, MD
Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford
Mintu Turakhia Lab
"Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Select Findings from the SMASH-AF Meta-Analysis Study Cohort"
Daniela Zanetti, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford
Erik Ingelsson Lab
"Studies of Urinary Biomarkers in the UK Biobank"