Cardiovascular Theme Symposium
Session 1 – Cardiomyocyte Biology
Moderator
Pearl Quijada, PhD – Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology, UCLA College of Life Sciences
Rene Packard, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor, Medicine & Physiology,
Speakers
Rachelle Crosbie, PhD – Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology,
UCLA College of Life Sciences
Thomas Vondriska, PhD – Professor, Anesthesiology, Medicine & Physiology,
Brian Black, PhD – Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco
Session 2 – Vascular and Lipid Biology
Moderator
Julia Mack, PhD – Assistant Professor, Medicine,
Nicole Valenzuela, PhD – Assistant Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine,
Speakers
Tamer Sallam, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Medicine,
Thomas Vallim, PhD – Associate Professor, Medicine and Biological Chemistry,
Klaus Ley, MD – Professor & Head, Division of Inflammation Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, University of California San Diego
Session 3 – Systems Biology and Omics
Moderator
Marlin Touma, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Pediatrics,
Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD – Professor, Human Genetics,
Speakers
Jake Lusis, PhD – Professor, Medicine, Human Genetics,
and Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
Marlin Touma, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Pediatrics,
Stephen Montgomery, PhD – Associate Professor, Pathology,
Genetics & Computer Science, Stanford University
Session 4 – Ion Channels and Basic Electrophysiology
Moderator
Stephen Cannon, MD, PhD – Professor, Physiology,
Zhilin Qu, PhD – Professor, Bioengineering,
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
Speakers
Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD – Associate Professor, Medicine,
Riccardo Olcese, PhD – Professor, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, and Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Daniel Minor, PhD – Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco
Contact – Rosemary Portal – cri@mednet.ucla.edu
