Vasculata 2019

Vasculata 2019

July 15-18, 2019 

Medical College of Wisconsin Campus

Organizers:
Veronica Flood, MD; Daisy Sahoo, PhD; Angie Holtz; Michael Widlansky, MD; and Ramani Ramchandran, PhD

Vasculata™ 2019 will be an intense 3 1/2 day course introducing the basics of cardiovascular biology and cardiovascular disease with an emphasis on new approaches to treating the most common causes of human disease in our society, based on cutting-edge research in the field. Vasculata combines a self-study program and seminars from leaders in the field with optional hands-on workshops, thus providing attendees with a unique learning experience in a discipline not comprehensively covered in textbooks or even by courses in most universities.

Keynote Speakers
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell and Dev. Biol. Director, Molecular Biology Institute Chair, Molecular Biology IDP University of California, Los Angeles	Curt D. Sigmund, Ph.D. James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology  Chair, Department of Physiology Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center Medical College of Wisconsin

Topics are Organ Specific:
Lung
Heart
Brain
Kidney/Renal
Blood

Workshops:
Glycomics and Glycoproteomics
Manipulating Genomes with CRISPR
Modeling Vascular Disease in Zebrafish
State-of-the-Art Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics
Big Data Analysis
Drug Discovery
Precision Medicine
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Selected Conference presenters

• Jalees Rehman, MD
  Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Bioengineering
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Sean Palecek, Ph.D.
  Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Alexander Staruschenko, PhD
  Professor
  Department of Physiology
  Medical College of Wisconsin
• Andreas M. Beyer, PhD
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Medicine
  Division of Cardiology
  Medical College of Wisconsin
• Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD
  University of Iowa

Registration Site is now open!

Currently accepting abstracts for poster presentation on a space available basis up until July 5.

Scholarship applications:

Successful applicants have been notified. 

Location

The conference will be held at the Medical College of Wisconsin Campus
8701 W. Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226