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The Cardiac Bioelectricity & Arrhythmia Center presents:
           CBaC 2013 Fall Seminar SChedule


     Mondays at 5:30 pm | Reception at 5:00 pm | Brauer Hall Rm. 12 | Danforth Campus


                                                     10/7          Mario Delmar, M.D., Ph.D.

                                                     Professor of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center (Cardiology); Co-Direc-
                                                     tor of the Translational Research & Novel Technologies Component at NYU

                                                         “Connexin43, plakophilin-2 and the sodium channel complex:
                                                          Partners in a heartbeat. Arrhythmia mechanisms in ARVC”

                                                     10/14          Björn C. Knollmann, M.D., Ph.D.

                                                     Professor of Medicine & Pharmacology, Oates Institute for Experimental
                                                     Therapeutics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

                                                     “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Arrhythmia
                                                                                  Research”

                                                     10/21          Calum A. MacRae, M.D., Ph.D.

                                                     Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s
                                                     Hospital (Cardiology), Harvard Medical School

                                                            “Zebrafish: A Simple Model for Complex Arrhythmias”


                                                     10/28          Lori L. Isom, Ph.D.

                                                     Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
                                                     Assistant Dean, Recruitment & Pre-Candidate Graduate Education
                                                     Director, Program in Biomedical Sciences; U. of Michigan Medical School

                                                         “Role of Sodium Channel Alpha and Beta Subunits in Dravet
                                                                          Syndrome and SUDEP”

                                                     11/4           James Weiss, M.D.


                                                     Kawata Professor of Medicine & Physiology; Chief, Division of
                                                     Cardiology; Director, Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, UCLA

                                                       “New Approaches to Unravel the Genetics of Complex Diseases”

                                                     11/11         Eli Rothenberg, Ph.D.

                                                     Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
                                                     NYU Langone Medical Center
                                                     “Novel Imaging Approaches for Mapping Molecular Interactions in Cardiac Cells”

                                                     11/25          Lior Gepstein, M.D., Ph.D.


                                                     Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) & Physiology, The Sohnis Research
                                                     Laboratory for Cardiac Electrophysiology & Regenerative Medicine,
                                                     The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,
                                                     Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
                                                         “Electrophysiological Implications of Pluripotent Stem Cells”

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