Sep. 12, 2002, Timothy J. Kamp, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

"Highlights from Snow Bird Meeting: Advances in Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Heart Failure"

Oct. 10, 2002, James M. Ervasti, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology

D. Xiong, G.-H. Lee, C. Badorff, A. Dorner, S. Lee, P. Wolf, and K.U. Knowlton (2002) "Dystrophin deficiency markedly increases enterovirus-induced cardiomyopathy: A genetic predisposition to viral heart disease." Nature Medicine 8:1-6.

Nov. 14, 2002, Jeffery Walker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physiology

Eunkyung Lee, Melissa Marcucci, Laurie Daniell, Marc Pypaert, Ora A. Weisz, Gian-Carlo Ochoa, Khashayar Farsad, Markus R. Wenk, Pietro e Camilli (2002) "Amphiphysin 2 (Bin1 and T-Tubule) Biogenesis in Muscle" Science, Vol 297, 16 August, 2002, 1193-1196.

Dec. 12, 2002, Kurt W. Saupe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

Ronglih Liao, PhD; Mohit Jain, PhD; Lei Cui, MD; Jessica D’Agostino, BA; Francesco Aiello, BS; Ivan Luptak, MD; Soeun Ngoy; Richard M. Mortensen, MD, PhD; Rong Tian, MD, Ph.D., (2002) "Cardiac-specific overexpression of GLUT1 prevents the development of heart failure attributable to pressure overload in mice." Circulation. Oct 15;106(16):2125-31.

Jan. 9, 2003. Marion Greaser, Ph.D., Professor, Animal Sciences

"Titin Isoform Switch in Ischemic Human Heart Disease" Ciprian Neagoe, MSc; Michael Kulke, MSc; Federica del Monte, MD, PhD; Judith K. Gwathmey, VMD, PhD; Pieter P. de Tombe, PhD; Roger J. Hajjar, MD; Wolfgang A. Linke, Ph.D. Circulation. 2002;106:1333-1341.

"Changes in Titin Isoform Expression in Pacing-Induced Cardiac Failure Give Rise to Increased Passive Muscle Stiffness" Yiming Wu, MD, PhD; Stephen P. Bell, BA; Karoly Trombitas, PhD; Christian C. Witt, PhD; Siegfried Labeit, MD; Martin M. LeWinter, MD; Henk Granzier, Ph.D. Circulation. 2002;106:1384-1389.

Feb. 13, 2003. Timothy J. Kamp, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

"Heart regeneration in zebrafish" Poss KD, Wilson LG, Keating MT, Science. 2002 Dec 13;298(5601):2141-2.

Mar. 13, 2003. Ken Campbell, Ph.D. Postdoc, Physiology

"A common mechanism for concurrent changes of diastolic muscle length and systolic function in intact hearts" Li Lu, Ya Xu, Peili Zhu, Clifford Greyson, and Ggrgory G. Schwartz, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 280: H1513H1518, 2001.

Apr. 10, 2003. Emily Farrell, Graduate Student, Physiology

"Dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure caused by a mutation in phospholamban" Schmitt JP, Kamisago M, Asahi M, Li GH, Ahmad F, Mende U, Kranias EG, MacLennan DH, Seidman JG, Seidman CE, Science. 2003 Feb 28;299(5611):1410-3

"Human phospholamban null results in lethal dilated cardiomyopathy revealing a critical difference between mouse and human Haghighi K, Kolokathis F, Pater L, Lynch RA, Asahi M, Gramolini AO, Fan GC, Tsiapras D, Hahn HS, Adamopoulos S, Liggett SB, Dorn GW 2nd, MacLennan DH, Kremastinos DT, Kranias EG, J Clin Invest. 2003 Mar;111(6):869-76.

May 8, 2003. Dinendar Kumar, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

"Ascorbic acid enhances differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac myocytes" Takahashi T, Lord B, Schulze PC, Fryer RM, Sarang SS, Gullans SR, Lee RT. Circulation, 2003 Apr 15;107(14):1912-6.

"Stem cell differentiation requires a paracrine pathway in the heart" Atta Behfar, Leonid V. Zingman, Denice M. Hodgson, Jean-Michel Rauzier, Garvan C. Kane, Andre Terzic and Michel Pucat. The FASEB Journal, 2002;16:1558-1566.