10 - Pathobiology of Cardiac Diseases and Aneurysm Formation

Session Chair(s)

• Pilar Alcaide

  Speaker
  Tufts University

• Francisco Carrillo-Salinas

  Presenting Author
  Tufts University School of Medicine

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM

  Baz1b Dosage Influences Cardiovascular Function, Predisposing to Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  

  Presenting Author: Basil McIntosh – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM

  EGFR Inhibition in Cardiomyocytes Stabilizes Cardiomyocyte Cohesion in a Murine Model for Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy
  

  Presenting Author: Maria Shoykhet – LMU Munich
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

  Proinflammatory T Cells with Downregulated Unfolded Protein Response Genes Contribute to Experimental Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
  

  Presenting Author: Sasha Smolgovsky – Tufts University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM

  Deletion of MyD88 in T-Cells Worsens Cardiac Pathology Through Enhanced T-Cell Survival and Induction of Cardiac Fibrosis
  

  Presenting Author: Abraham Bayer – Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

  The Vascular Basis of Takotsubo Syndrome
  

  Presenting Author: Leah Choban – NEOMED
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM

  Smooth Muscle-Specific Deletion of Neuropilin-1 Increases Vascular Contractility and Blood Pressure
  

  Presenting Author: Dakshnapriya Balasubbramanian – Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

  Osteopontin is an integral pro-fibrotic mediator of myocardial fibrosis in HIV infection.
  

  Presenting Author: Jake Robinson – Lewis Katz School of Medicine
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

  AT1R blockade together with AT2R stimulation prevents aortic aneurysm in mice with progressively severe Marfan syndrome
  

  Presenting Author: Keiichi Asano – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

  Endothelial dysfunction drives aneurysm development in Marfan syndrome
  

  Presenting Author: Anna Cantalupo – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

  Adenovirus increases arrhythmia susceptibility during acute cardiac infection
  

  Presenting Author: Rachel Padget – Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech