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FeBruary 2013

Congratulations to Smiruthi Ramasubramanian and Jiajing Xu graduate students in Yoram Rudy’s
laboratory, who received a Merit Award for their poster presentation “Structure and Gating of the
Cardiac Iks Channel” at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms (Ven-
tura, California, February 21 , 2013).
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Phillip Bayly and his team was awarded a $2.25 million grant by the National Institutels of Health
(NIH) to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and
treatment. For the full press release, check out http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25008.aspx.

marCh 2013

Lihong Wang was awarded a three-year $300,000 grant from the National Science Founda-
tion (NSF) to study oxygen consumption rates of indiviual cells using photoacoustic microscopy.
Check out http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25138.aspx for more information.

aPril 2013

Ali Nekouzadeh leaves Washington University for a position in the private sector in California.

Colin G. Nichols received a five-year, $1.9 million grant renewal from the National Heart Lung, and
Blood Institute for research titled “SUR (ABCC8) and Atrial K Channels.”
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may 2013

The CBAC was well represented at the 2013 Heart Rhythm 34 Annual Scientific Session in
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Denver, Colarado. Presentations by CBAC members included:

• “Notch Signaling in Conduction Cell Specification” by Stacey Rentschler
• “Adverse Electrophysiological Response to Ischemia-Reperfusion in Human Heart
Failure is Associated With Remodeling of Metabolic Gene Expression” by
Igor Efimov, Clinical Research Fellow Fu Siong Ng, and Graduate
Student Katherine Holzem
• “Electrophysiologic Substrate in Patients with Long QT Syndrome (LQTS):
Noninvasive Mapping with ECGI” by Graduate Student Ramya Vijayakumar,
Jennifer Silva, CBAC Alumnus Kavit A. Desouza, George Van Hare and
Yoram Rudy.

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