FINAL Program

friday December 1, 2023


Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30 am US CST


Venkata Srikanth Garikipati, PhD (USA)

KeyNote Presentation

Maria Kontaridis, PHD

Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA 


8:40 am US CST

Myeloid-specific Regulation of RhoA in Cardiac Fibrosis


 Session 6 : Cardiac immunology & cell-cell communication

Moderators

Weijia Luo, PhD

Texas A&M University, USA

Rongxue "Rosie" Wu, MD, PhD

University of Chicago, USA

Rajesh Katare, MD, PHD

University of Otago, New Zealand


09:00 am US CST

Diagnostic and prognostic role of circulating microRNAs

Leah Cahill, phd

Dalhousie University, Canada


09:15 am US CST

The haptoglobin phenotype biomarker and risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes

Sarah Dick, PHD

Queen's University, Canada


09:30 am US CST

Tissue Resident Macrophages as Modulators of Cardiac Repair

MuruGesan Rajaram, PHD

The Ohio State University, USA


09:45 am US CST

Role of Macrophages on cardiac dysfunction during lethal Pneumonia

Fabio Recchia, md, phd

Institute of Clinical Physiology Pisa, Italy


10:00 am US CST

microRNAs Delivery to Repair the Infarcted Heart

Break


KeyNote Presentation

Thomas Hund, PHD

The Ohio State University, USA 


10:25 am US CST

Novel role of the spectrin cytoskeleton in tuning cardiac remodeling

 

Session 7: Metabolic cardiovascular disease

Moderators

Thomas Pulinilkunnil, PhD

Dalhousie University, Canada

Wing-Tak Jack Wong, PhD

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lisa Heather, PHD

University of Oxford, UK


10:45 am US CST

Metabolic control of hypoxic signalling as a therapeutic target in diabetes

Sihem Boudina, PHD

University of Utah, USA


11:00 am US CST

Cardiac metabolism in congenital cardiomyopathies

brian Rodrigues, bsc, PHD

University of British Columbia, Canada


11:15 am US CST

Fatty acid delivery to the heart and changes following diabetes

Rushita Bagchi, PHD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA


11:30 am US CST

Targeting fatty acylation in cardiometabolic disease

Break


KeyNote Presentation

Michael Czubryt, PhD, FCVS, FAHA, FIACS

University of Manitoba, Canada


12:15 pm US CST

Targeting Fibroblast Activation to Treat Cardiac Fibrosis

 

Session 8 : Cardiovascular fibrosis & hemodynamics

Moderators

Sadia Mohsin, PhD

Temple University, USA

Dhanendra Tomar, PhD

Wake Forest University, USA

Ian Dixon, phd

University of Manitoba, Canada


12:35 pm US CST

Scleraxis and SKI as modulators of fibroblast phenotype

Vidu Garg, MD

The Ohio State University, USA


12:50 pm US CST

Notch signaling & bicuspid aortic valve disease

Liya Yin, MD, PhD, FCVS, FAHA

Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA


01:05 pm US CST

Regulation of Coronary Microcirculation in Metabolic Syndrome

Keith Brunt, PHD

Dalhousie University, Canada


01:20 pm US CST

Re-establishing heme homeostasis for cardiac hemodynamic stability to arrest heart failure progression

Break


KeyNote Presentation

Na Li, phd

Baylor College of Medicine, USA


01:45 pm US CST

Inflammasome signaling and atrial arrhythmogenesis

 

Session 9 : Cardiac arrhythmia & ion homeostasis

Moderators

Venkata Srikanth Garikipati, PhD

Temple University, USA 

Suresh K Verma, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Michel EspinoZa-Fonseca, phd

University of Michigan, USA


02:05 pm US CST

Design of small-molecule effectors targeting the calcium pumps in the heart

Céline Fiset, bpharm, phd

Université de Montréal, Canada


02:20 pm US CST

Mechanisms underlying sex differences in atrial fibrillation

Charles Thodeti, PhD, FAHA, FCVS

University of Toledo, USA


02:35 pm US CST

Endothelial Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Remodeling

HarpReet Singh, phd

The Ohio State University, USA


02:50 pm US CST

Role of CLIC4 in cardiac function

5MReSPARKS Awards Announcement, Closing Remarks and Thanks


Rongxue “Rosie” Wu, MD, PhD

Sarojini Singh, PhD

Justin Bridges, BS

Petra Kienesberger, MSc, PhD

Venkata Srikanth Garikipatii, PhD