Category Archives: Vascular Biology

Business People recognizes Oklahoma firms' recent new hires and promotions. To include your announcement, send information and a photo to Business Editor Adam Wilmoth at awilmoth@oklahoman.com. Whitney Thorne has joined SSM Health St. Continue reading →

By "Sunday Morning" contributing videographer Judy Lehmberg. One of the real advantages of being a wildlife filmmaker is getting to go to some super-neat places. If you are Mauricio Handler, who was born and raised in Chile and is an accomplished scuba diver, one of those places is the Humboldt Penguin National Reserve off the Chilean coast, where he filmed last week's "Sunday Morning" Moment in Nature. Continue reading →

You could fill up a web publications daily coverage just with new wonders from the world of life. Would that be expected given Darwinian assumptions? It seems not Continue reading →

(Editors note: This article is part of an editorial partnership between Next Avenue and The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national nonprofit whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical research.) Nathan LeBrasseur is a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and associate professor of physiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Continue reading →

At its biennial international conferences, the European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) sponsors a number of awards to support researchers at all stages of their career. Continue reading →

Plant physiology encompasses the study of plant form and function. Continue reading →

You are invited to the Fifth International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology (PVB2019), 17 20 June 2019 at the historic Asilomar Conference Grounds, California, USA. The conference brings together over 150 scientists from around the world to discuss exciting breakthroughs in plant vascular biology and to create bridges between basic and applied research Continue reading →

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October 27-31, 2019Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey, CAKeynote Lecture by Hal Dietz, Johns Hopkins Medical Center:Leveraging Natures Success: Lessons from Modifiers of Cardiovascular DiseaseWorkshops:Developmental Vascular Biology and Genetics Workshop VIII Organized by Victoria Bautch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Co-organizer: Courtney Griffin, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundations Organized by Kayla Bayless, Texas A&M Health Science Center and Marlene Rabinovitch, Stanford University Co-organizers: Christopher Breuer, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Linda Demer, University of California, Los Angeles Microphysiological Models of the MicrocirculationIntegrative Function in the MicrocirculationOrganized by Walter Lee Murfee, University of Florida Earl P. Benditt Award LectureJudah Folkman Award in Vascular Biology LectureSpringer Junior Investigator Award LectureRecipients have not yet been determined Emerging Technologies and ImagingCo-sponsored by the Microcirculatory SocietyMary Dickinson, Baylor College of MedicineNew imaging modalities and vascular developmentRui Benedito, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones CardiovascularesUsing multispectral genetic mosaics to enlighten endothelial heterogeneity during angiogenesisNathan Lawson, University of MassachusettsGenetic dissection of vascular and lymphatic development in zebrafishTodd McDevitt, University of California, San FranciscoEngineering cardiac microtissues to interrogate mechanisms of heterotypic interactionsSong Hu, University of VirginiaListening with light: photoacoustic microscopy of the microcirculation in vivo Vascular Transcriptomics: Discovery and Therapeutic OpportunitiesOrganized by Jan Kitajewski, University of Illinois at Chicago Session Chairs: Jan Kitajewski, University of Illinois at Chicago and Nicholas Gale, RegeneronHenar Cuervo, University of Illinois at ChicagoTranscriptomic analysis of vascular pericytes and pericyte-associated diseaseChrister Betsholtz, Karolinska Institute/Uppsala UniversityVascular single-cell transcriptomicsAmber Stratman, Washington University in St. LouisTranscriptomic analysis of vascular smooth muscle cells in zebrafishGavin Thurston, RegeneronTranscriptomic analysis of tumor vasculature Bioengineering of Vascularized Tissues for Regenerative MedicineOrganized by Ngan Huang, Stanford University Therapeutic Potential of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Endothelial CellsOrganized by: Juan Melero-Martin, Boston Childrens Hospital Continue reading →

Pre-Conference Meeting for Trainees Organizers: Nicholas Chavkin, Yale University and Thanh Theresa Dinh, Stanford UniversitySunday, October 14 - 1:00-5:00pmRequires an additional registration fee of $25. Program will consist of a guest speaker, a discussion or presentation on career development and abstracts presentations from graduate students and postdocs Continue reading →