Date Event Title Speaker
09/06/2016 "FOXE3 mutations predispose to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections" Alan Daugherty Lab
04/19/2016 "FGF21 Lowers Plasma Triglycerides by Accelerating Lipoprotein Catabolism in White and Brown Adipose Tissues" Zhou Lab
04/12/2016 "Genetic Architecture of Atherosclerosis in Mice: A Systems Genetics Analysis of Common Inbred Strains" Webb Lab
04/05/2016 "Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease" Temel Lab
03/29/2016 "Attenuation of the unfolded protein response and endoplasmic reticulum stress after mechanical unloading in dilated cardiomyopathy" Satin Lab
03/22/2016 "Immune activation caused by vascular oxidation promotes fibrosis and hypertension" Loria Lab
03/15/2016 No Journal Club UK Spring Break
03/08/2016 "Trim28 Haploinsufficiency Triggers Bi-stable Epigenetic Obesity" Lee Lab
03/01/2016 "Time-Restricted Feeding Is a Preventative and Therapeutic Intervention against Diverse Nutritional Challenges" Guo Lab
02/23/2016 "New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk" Graf Lab
02/16/2016 "Inclusion bodies enriched for p62 and polyubiquitinated proteins in macrophages protect against atherosclerosis" Florin Despa Lab
02/09/2016 "Depletion of fat-resident Treg cells prevents age-associated insulin resistance" Sean Thatcher, PhD
02/02/2016 "Genetic analysis of the contribution of LTBP-3 to thoracic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome" Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
01/26/2016 "A peptide encoded by a transcript annoated as long noncoding RNA enhances SERCA activity in muscle" Gregory Graf, PhD
12/08/2015 "Increased High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels in Mice With XX Versus XY Sex Chromosomes" Yasir Al-Siraj
12/01/2015 "A deleterious gene-by-environment interaction imposed by calcium channel blockers in Marfan syndrome" Hong Lu, MD, PhD
11/24/2015 No Cardiovascular Journal Club No Journal Club
11/17/2015 "Abnormal mechanosensing and cofilin activation promotes the progression of ascending aoritic aneurysms in mice" Sean Thatcher, PhD
11/03/2015 "MicroRNA-148a regulates LDL receptor and ABCA1 expression to control circulating lipoprotein levels" Ryan Temel, PhD
10/27/2015 "Dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm in Ang II-infused mice- suprarenal branch ruptures and apparent luminal dilatation" Hong Lu, MD, PhD
10/20/2015 "A Novel Role for Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Exercise-Induced Improvements in Glucose Homeostasis" Leryn Reynolds
10/13/2015 "Sympathetic Neuro-adipose Connections Mediate Leptin-Driven Lipolysis" Gregory Graf, PhD
10/06/2015 "New CETP inhibitor K-312 reduces PCSK9 expression: a potentional effect on LDL cholesterol metabolism" Reiya Hayden
09/29/2015 "Perhexiline activates KLF14 and reduces atherosclerosis by modulating ApoA-I production" Jing Liu
09/22/2015 "The Bile Acid Chenodeoxycholic Acid Increases Human Brown Adipose Tissue Activity" Heather Norman
09/15/2015 "The adipokine Retnla modulates cholesterol homeostasis in hyperlipidemic mice" Nate Helsley
09/08/2015 "Development and rescue of human familial hypercholesterolaemia in a xenograt mouse model" Joe Layne, PhD
09/08/2015 Weekly CVRC Journal Club Begins
04/28/2015 "Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Prevents Atherosclerosis by Suppression of Hepatic Sterol Regulatory Element-Binding Protein-2 and Induction of Adiponectin in Mice" Heather Norman
04/21/2015 "Interplay between FGF21 and insulin action in the liver regulates metabolism" Yuhuan Wang
04/14/2015 "Intestinal FXR agonism promotes adipose tissue browning and reduces obesity and insulin resistance" Sonja Pijut
04/07/2015 "Intestinal farnesoid X receptor signaling promotes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease" Jianing Li
03/31/2015 "Dimorphic Effects of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling During Aortic Aneurysm Progression in Mice Suggest a Combinatorial Therapy for Marfan Syndrome" Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
03/24/2015 "Cholesterol-lowering drugs cause dissolution of cholesterol crystals and disperse Kupffer cell crown-like structures during resolution of NASH." Gregory Graf, PhD
03/17/2015 UK Spring Break No Journal Club