Page 23 - CBAC Newsletter 2013
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News & announCementS
• “Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Mapping and Imaging: Is there a Role for VT/PVC
Ablation?” by Yoram Rudy
• “Computer Modeling Human Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes” by Yoram Rudy
Poster Presentations by CBAC members included:
• “Imaging AF Begetting AF: Noninvasive ECGI Demonstrates Electrophysiological
Changes in Humans with Paroxysmal AF which is Associated with AF Recurrance
after PVI” by Phillip Cuculich, and Graduate Student Ramya Vijayakumar.
• “Functional Remodeling of Gap Junction Coupling in Intact Myocardium in Human
End-stage Heart Failure” by Clinical Research Fellow Fu Siong Ng, Graduate
Student Matthew Sulkin and Igor Efimov
• “Simultaneous Optical Mapping of Transmembrane and Inner Mitochondrial
Membrane Potential Reveal Spatiotemporal Patterns During Low-flow Ischemia in
Human, Canine, and Rabbit Myocardium “ by Graduate Student Matthew Sulkin,
Clinical Research Fellow Fu Siong Ng, student Megan Tetlow and
Igor Efimov
• “Action-potential Prolongation and Abnormal Ca -handling Modulate Beat-to-beat
2+
Variability of Repolarization Duration in Cullular and Computational Models of Long-
QT Syndrome” by CBAC Alumnus Jordi Heijman, and Yoram Rudy
• “Speech-Induced Atrial Tachycardia: An Unusual Presentation of Supraventricular
Tachycardia” by Jane Chen and Timothy W. Smith
June 2013
Jianmin Cui co-organized the 4 International Ion Channel Conference: Structure, Function
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& Terapeutics in Shijiazhuang, China held on June 30-July 2, 2013.
July 2013
Jeanne M. Nerbonne becomes the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Research starting on
July 1, 2013.
Post Doctoral Research Associate Ashwin Mohan and Yoram Rudy participated in the last (fifth year)
meeting of the Fondation Leducq Alliance for CaMKII Signaling in Heart Disease research.
Yoram Rudy participated in the FDA Cardiotoxicity Working Group Meeting - Development and Use
of Computer Models: “Computer Modeling of Human Cardiac Myocytes and Imaging Arrhythmogenic
Substrate” at the FDA Research Campus in Silver Spring, MD.
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