Award Recipients for Fifth Annual CVRI Symposium - 2017
Baylor College of Medicine's Cardiovascular Research Institute's annual symposium, now in its fifth year, was held April 4, 2017. The event highlighted the strengths and innovations of research at the institute and attracted individual posters that demonstrated the breadth of research at Baylor, and throughout the Texas Medical Center as a whole. Winners from each category are listed below.
Best Poster Winners 2017
Winners of the CVRI Symposium's Best Poster awards pose for a picture. From left: CVRI Director Xander Wehrens, Ann Quick, Nanbing Li, Andrew Landstrom, Vivek Singh, and Biykem Bozkurt, CVRI associate director
Student Category
Ann Quick, Student, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
SPEG stabilizes junctional membrane complexes and is required for adult cardiac health
Author(s): Ann P Quick1, Qiongling Wang2, Leonne E Philippen2, Giselle Barreto-Torres2, David Y Chiang3, David L Beavers3, Julia O Reynolds2, Arjen Scholten4, Xander HT Wehrens5
1CVRI/ MPB, Baylor College of Medicine; 2CVRI/MPB, BCM; 3CVRI/TBMM, BCM; 4Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University; 5CVRI/MBP, BCM
Postdoctoral Category
Nanbing Li, Ph.D., Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Ascc2 regulates cardiovascular development and proliferation during early post-implantation murine embryogenesis
Author(s): Nanbing Li1, Leeyean Wong1, Victor Piazza1, Chih-Wei Hsu1, Mary E Dickinson1
1Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
Clinical Fellow Category
Andrew Landstrom, M.D., Ph.D, Pediatrics-Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
The diagnostic value incidentally identified variants in genes associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in a large cohort of clinical whole exome genetic test referrals
Author(s): Andrew P Landstrom1, Andrew L Dailey-Schwartz1, Jill A Rosenfeld2, Yaping Yang3, Christina Y Miyake4, Santiago O Valdes4, Hugh D Allen4, Daniel J Penny4, Jeffrey J Kim4
1Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; 2Miraca Genetic Laboratories, Baylor College of Medicine; 3Miraca Genetic Laboratories, Miraca Genetic Laboratories; 4Pediatrics/Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Junior Faculty Category
Vivek Singh, Ph.D., Surgical Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Mir-590 promotes transdifferentiation of porcine and human fibroblasts towards a cardiomyocyte-like fate by directly repressing Specificity Protein 1 (Sp1)
Author(s): Vivek P Singh1, Megumi Mathison1, Jaya P Pinnamaneni1, Deepthi Sanagasetti1, Jacqueline K Olive1, Jianchang Yang1, Todd K Rosengart1
1Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Best Abstract Winners 2017
Winners of the Best Abstract from the CVRI 2017 Symposium pose for a photo. From left: CVRI Director Xander Wehrens, Paul Pang, Jenny Sun, Jennifer Karmouch, and Biykem Bozkurt, associate director of the CVRI. Not pictured: Alexis “Lekki” Frazier-Wood.
Paul Pang, Student, Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Mis-splicing of Scn5a contributes to cardiac dysfunction in myotonic dystrophy
Author(s): Paul Pang1, Amrita Koushik2, Roberta Palau2, Thomas Cooper2
1Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; 2Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine
Jenny Sun, Student, Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Acute pharmacogenetic stimulation of broad brainstem regions in adult mice results in potential SUDEP-like death from perturbed respiratory and cardiovascular function
Author(s): Jenny J Sun1, Russell S Ray1
1Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Jennifer Karmouch, Ph.D., IMM Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center
Deletion of Desmoplakin, a Gene Responsible for Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Specifically in Cardiac CSPG4pos Cells Leads to Cardiac Arrhythmias and Premature Death
Author(s): Jennifer Karmouch1, Christina Miyaki2, Raffaella Lombardi1, Xander Wehrens2, James T Willerson3 and Ali J Marian1
1Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 2Baylor College of Medicine and 3Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas
Alexis “Lekki” Frazier-Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – Nutrition, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
1,5 Anhydrosorbitol mediates the association between a Mediterranean-style Diet and incident Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Author(s): Alexis C Frazier-Wood1, David Herrington2
1Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; 2Cardiology, Wake Forest
Additional Awards
Distinguished TMC Keynote Lecture Award 2017
CVRI Theme Leader Dr. Scott LeMaire, left, presents the Distinguished Texas Medical Center Keynote Lecture Award to Dr. Richard Gibbs, right, from Baylor College of Medicine.
Distinguished National Keynote Lecture Award 2017
CVRI Theme Leader Dr. Mark Entman presents Dr. Christine Seidman from Harvard Medical School the Distinguished National Keynote Lecture award at the 2017 CVRI Symposium.
Distinguished National Keynote Lecture Award 2017
CVRI Theme Leader Dr. Mark Entman presents Dr. Christine Seidman from Harvard Medical School the Distinguished National Keynote Lecture award at the 2017 CVRI Symposium.