Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Current Seminars

Fridays at 9 a.m. in HKRB 150

This forum brings to campus prominent external speakers and provides presentations by University of Kentucky faculty to ensure their research expertise is widely known.

Previous Cardiovascular Seminar Series Sessions

Fall 2024 Semester

Date	Event Title	Speaker	Institute	Host
09/13/2024	"Genetic Determinants of Coronary Artery Disease Risk in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells"	Mete Civelek, PhD	University of Virginia	Nate Helsley, PhD
09/20/2024	Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2024	Circadian Regulation of Cardiac Electrophysiology	Brian Delisle, PhD	University of Kentucky	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
10/04/2024	FCPS Fall Break
10/11/2024	"Mitophagy, Sex and the Gut Microbiome: Potential Roles in the Formation of Aortic Aneurysms"	Morgan Salmon, PhD, MBA	University of Michigan	Hong Lu, MD, PhD
10/18/2024	"Liver Macrophage Efferocytosis in Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatohepatitis"	Hongxue Shi, MD	Columbia University	Gregory Graf, PhD
10/25/2024	"Pro-Atherogenic Mechanisms Regulating Cardiovascular Disease by Epsins"	Hong Chen, PhD	Boston Children's Hospital	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
11/01/2024	"Regulation of Tissue Factor Procoagulant Activity"	Shabbir Ansari, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Jeremy Wood, PhD
11/08/2024	"Mechanisms of Cancer-Associated Thrombosis and Bleeding: Focus on Tissue Factor-Positive Extracellular Vesicles"	Nigel Mackman, PhD	University of North Carolina	Congqing Wu, PhD
11/15/2024	"The Undiagnosed Rare Disease Clinic and UDN: Bridging Clinical Care and Research"	Erin Conboy, MD	Indiana University School of Medicine	Mary Sheppard, MD
11/22/2024	Translating Cardiovascular Genomics to Potential Drug Targets and Mechanism of Disease	Eugene Chen, MD, PhD	University of Michigan	Ryan Temel, PhD
11/29/2024	Thanksgiving Week
12/06/2024	"Antihypertensive Peptides Derived Food Proteins"	Hongbing Fan, PhD	University of Kentucky	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc

Spring 2025 Semester

Date	Event Title	Speaker	Institute	Host
01/31/2025	Available
02/07/2025	Dr. Brown is a cardiologist and basic scientist studying transcriptional mechanisms relevant to the pathogenesis of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis.	Jonathan Brown, MD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/14/2025	Dr. Gustafson conducts community based interventions focused on improving food access to rural underserved populations and focuses on health disparities related to rural & minoritized populations using mental health interventions and digital technology.	Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD	University of Kentucky	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/21/2025	Available
02/28/2025	Dr. Fan's lab dissects the molecular/cellular mechanisms underlying ischemia/reperfusion-induced cardiac remodeling & elucidates how infection/inflammation causes vascular leakage & heart failure.	Guo-Chang Fan, PhD	University of Cincinnati	Xiangan Li, PhD
03/07/2025	Available
03/14/2025	Dr. Beauloye's research includes acute coronary syndromes, links between coagulation and platelets and control of the cardiac metabolism.	Christophe Beauloye, PhD	Institut Cardiovasculaire, Saint-Luc	Florin Despa, PhD
03/21/2025	UK Spring Break
03/28/2025	BAF60s and the Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm	Jifeng Zhang, PhD	University of Michigan	Hong Lu, MD, PhD
04/04/2025	Available
04/11/2025	FCPS Spring Break
04/18/2025	Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) Activation as a Novel Approach to Mitigate Cardiovascular Disease	Zhiyong Lin, PhD	Emory University	Hong Lu, MD, PhD

Fall 2025 Semester

Date	Event Title
09/09/2025	Available
09/12/2025	Available
09/16/2025	Available
09/19/2025	Available
09/23/2025	Available
09/26/2025	Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2025	Saha Aortic Symposium
10/07/2025	Available
10/10/2025	Available
10/14/2025	Available
10/17/2025	Available
10/21/2025	Available
10/24/2025	Available
10/28/2025	Available
10/31/2025	Available
11/04/2025	Available
11/07/2025	Available
11/11/2025	Available
11/14/2025	Available
11/18/2025	Available
11/21/2025	Available
12/02/2025	Available
12/05/2025	Available