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12:00- 2:00

 

2:00- 2:15

 

2:15-  2:55

 

 

 

 

2:55-  3:05

 

3:05- 3:25

 

 

 

 

 

3:25-  3:35

 

3:35-  3:55

 

 

 

 

 

3:55-  4:05

 

4:05- 4:25

 

 

4:25- 4:35

Arrival and Registration

 

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

 

Keynote Address:

Dwight Towler, MD, PhD

Professor of Internal Medicine

UT - Southwestern

 

Discussion

 

Dianne Milewicz, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine

Dept. of Internal Medicine

UT Health Science Center - Houston

 

Discussion

 

Emily Wilson, PhD

Professor and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dept. of Medical Physiology

Texas A&M Health Science Center

 

Discussion

 

Christopher Kevil, PhD

Professor and Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences

LSU Health Science Center - Shreveport

 

Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

Wnt Signaling and Arginine Methylation Relays in Diabetic Vascular Disease

 

 

 

The "Contractile-Elastin Unit: and Mechanosensing in Thoracic Aortic Disease

 

 

 

 

 

Mechanical Forces and Vascular Remodeling

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gasotransmitters and Vascular Biology

August 26th

8:00- 9:00

 

9:00- 9:40

 

 

 

 

9:40- 9:50

 

9:50- 10:10

 

 

 

 

10:10- 10:20

 

10:20- 10:45

 

10:45- 11:05

 

 

 

 

11:05- 11:15

 

11:15-11:35

 

 

 

 

11:35- 11:45

 

11:45- 12:05

 

 

 

 

12:05- 12:15

 

 

12:15-

 

Breakfast

 

Keynote Address:

Jun-Ichi Abe, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Cardiology

MD Anderson Cancer Center

 

Discussion

 

Decha Pinkaew, PhD

Instructor, Division of Cardiology

Department of Internal Medicine

UT Medical Branch - Galveston

 

Discussion

 

Coffee Break

 

Philip Shaul, MD

Professor and Vice Chair of Research

Center for Pulmonary and Vascular Biology

UT Southwestern Medical Center

 

Discussion

 

Reto Asmis, PhD

Professor and Senior Associate Dean

Dept. of Clinical Lab Sciences and Biochemistry

UT Health Science Center - San Antonio

 

Discussion

 

John P. Cooke, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair,

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Houston Methodist Research Institute

 

Discussion

 

 

Box Lunch and Adjournment

 

Mixer and Poster Session

 5:00 - 7:00

August 27th

 

 

SUMOylation and Mechano-

Sensing in Atherogenesis

 

 

 

 

 

Fortilin, a Multifunctional

Protein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Endothelial Cell Biology of

Type 2 Diabetes

 

 

 

 

 

Macrophages: The

Immunometabolic Interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

Therapeutic Trans-

Differentiation of Human

Fibroblasts to Endothelial

Cells Using Small Molecules

 

 

 

 

 

 

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