Sep. 9, 2004, Emily Farrell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Trainee, Physiology

"Clinical recovery from end-stage heart failure using left-ventricular assist device and pharmacological therapy correlates with increased sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium content but not with regression of cellular hypertrophy" Circulation. 2004 May 18;109(19):2263-5. Epub 2004 May 10. Terracciano CM, Hardy J, Birks EJ, Khaghani A, Banner NR, Yacoub MH.

"Altered myocardial Ca2+ cycling after left ventricular assist device support in the failing human heart" Chaudhary KW, Rossman EI, Piacentino V 3rd, Kenessey A, Weber C, Gaughan JP, Ojamaa K, Klein I, Bers DM, Houser SR, Margulies KB. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2004 Aug 18;44(4):837-45.

Oct. 14, 2004 Karen Reece, Graduate Student, Physiology

Effects of PKC dependent phosphorylation and a familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related mutation of cardiac troponin I on structural transition of troponin C and myofilament activation. Kobayashi T, Dong WJ, Burkart EM, Cheung HC, Solaro RJ. Biochemistry. 2004 May 25; 43(20): 5996-6004.

Nov. 11, 2004 Sarah L. Wynia, Graduate Student, Physiology; Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Calcium-dependent arrhythmias in transgenic mice with heart failure.   London B, Baker LC, Lee JS, Shusterman V, Choi BR, Kubota T, McTiernan CF, Feldman AM, Salama G.  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2003 Feb;284(2):H431-41. Epub 2002 Oct 17. 

Impairment of HERG K(+) channel function by tumor necrosis factor-alpha: role of reactive oxygen species as a mediator. Wang J, Wang H, Zhang Y, Gao H, Nattel S, Wang Z.  J Biol Chem. 2004 Apr 2;279(14):13289-92. Epub 2004 Feb 17.

Dec. 9, 2004 Kurt W. Saupe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular)

Age-Associated Cardiac Dysfunction in Drosophila melanogaster.   Giovanni Paternostro, Carlo Vignola, Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, Jeff H. Omens, Andrew D. McCulloch, John C. Reed Circ Res. 2001;88:1053-1058.

Insulin regulation of heart function in aging fruit flies. Robert J Wessells, Erin Fitzgerald, James R Cypser, Marc Tatar & Rolf Bodmer Nature Genetics. Dec 2004;(36)12: 1275-1281.

Jan. 13, 2005 Michele Jaeger, Graduate Student, CMB; Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Comprehensive Analysis of the Beta-Myosin Heavy Chain Gene in 389 Unrelated Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Van Driest, SL et al. JACC 2004; 44(3): 602-610.

Frequency and Clinical Expression of Cardiac Troponin I Mutations in 748 Consecutive Families With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Mogensen J et al. JACC 2004; 44(12): 2315-2325.

Feb. 10, 2005    Cancelled.

Mar. 10, 2005 Jacob D. Mulligan, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Trainee, Medicine (Cardiovascular); Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Adiponectin-mediated Modulation of Hypertrophic Signals in the Heart. Shibate, R. et al. Nat. Med. 2004. 10, 1384-1389.

Apr. 14, 2005 Jennifer E. Grant, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Trainee, Physiology; Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

In vivo and in vitro analysis of cardiac troponin I phosphorylation. Sakthivel S, Finley NL, Rosevear PR, Lorenz JN, Gulick J, Kim S, VanBuren P, Martin LA, Robbins J. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280: 703-714.

May 12, 2005 Kevin Sonnemann, Graduate Student, Cellular and Molecular Biology; Former Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Uncontrolled calcium sparks act as a dystrophic signal for mammalian skeletal muscle. Wang, et al. Nature Cell Biology 2005.