Cardiovascular Research Center seminar

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.

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Previous Cardiovascular Seminar Series Sessions

Spring 2025 Semester

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
01/24/2025 Potential Therapeutic Use of High-Density Lipoproteins in Cardiac Surgery Patients to Suppress Intraoperative Endothelial Activation and Reduce Postoperative AKI and Delirium Loren Smith, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
01/31/2025 The Journey of CARMN: From Identification to Functional Characterization Xiangqin He, PhD Augusta University Hong Lu, MD, PhD
02/07/2025 Transcriptional Control of Fibrosis in Human Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Jonathan Brown, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/14/2025 Effectiveness of a Food is Medicine Program for Medicaid Adults with Hypertension and Food Insecurity-Results from American Heart Association HealthcarexFood Initiative Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/21/2025 The Great X-Cape: X Chromosome Escape Genes Drive Metabolic Sex Differences Carrie Wiese, PhD University of California Los Angeles Greg Graf, PhD
02/28/2025 Macrophage Efferocytosis in Cardiac Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Repair Guo-Chang Fan, PhD University of Cincinnati Xiangan Li, PhD
03/07/2025 A "Bedside to Bench and Back" Approach to Peripheral Artery Disease Pathophysiology Ahmed Ismaeel, PhD University of Kentucky Greg Graf, PhD
03/14/2025 The Myoinositol-Smit1 Pathway, A Potentially New Therapeutic Target to Treat Heart Failure Christophe Beauloye, PhD Institut Cardiovasculaire, Saint-Luc Florin Despa, PhD
03/21/2025 Elucidating the Role of Fatty Acids in Thrombopoiesis During Diet-Induced Obesity Maria Barrachina, PhD Boston Children's Hospital Greg Graf, PhD
03/28/2025 BAF60s and the Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Jifeng Zhang, PhD University of Michigan Hong Lu, MD, PhD
04/04/2025 When Splicing Tips the Scale: How Pre-mRNA Processing Affects Bleeding and Clotting Disorders Amy Siebert-McKenzie, PhD Versiti Inc. Greg Graf, PhD
04/11/2025 Leveraging Human Genetics for Cardiovascular Precision Medicine Satoshi Koyama, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School Greg Graf, PhD
04/18/2025 Safeguarding the Vasculature: The Essential Role of Matricellular Protein CCN2 Zhiyong Lin, PhD Emory University Hong Lu, MD, PhD
05/02/2025 Unraveling the Role of Genomic Aging for Cardiovascular Diseases Using Large-Scale Genomic Cohort Tetsushi Nakao, MD, PhD Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Greg Graf, PhD

Fall 2025 Semester

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
09/12/2025 Available
09/19/2025 Dr. Koenig's primary focus is on understanding the role of inflammatory and non-inflammatory macrophages in acute and chronic cardiac injury and disease. Andrew Koenig, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Greg Graf, PhD
09/26/2025 Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2025 Saha Aortic Symposium
10/03/2025 FCPS Fall Break
10/10/2025 Available
10/17/2025 The Evans Laboratory studies the vascular response to thrombosis with a view to improving treatments for inflammatory vascular diseases including acute respiratory distress syndrome. Colin Evans, PhD University of South Carolina Shayan Mohammadmoradi, PhD
10/24/2025 Dr. Aday's areas of expertise include aortic aneurysms, cardiac surgery, cardiovascular disease and medicine, general cardiology, peripheral vascular and arterial disease, as well as carotid disease. Aaron Aday, MD, MSc Vanderbilt University Medical Center Mary Sheppard, MD
10/31/2025 No Seminar
11/07/2025 AHA Scientific Sessions
11/14/2025 Research in the Parker Lab harnesses the power of proteomic technologies to elucidate mechanisms of vascular pathology and identify putative molecular biomarkers of aneurysm and atherosclerosis. Sarah Parker, PhD Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Abby Burrows Franco, PhD
11/21/2025 Coenzyme A As A Regulator of Mitochondrial Metabolism Roberta Leonardi, PhD West Virginia University Greg Graf, PhD
12/05/2025 Available