20th IVBM
Helsinki, Finland
June 3-7, 2018
Registration and Abstract Submission now open!
Vasculata 2018
St. Louis, MO
July 23 - 26, 2018
Vascular Biology
Newport, RI
October 14-18, 2018
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Register for Vascular Biology and Vasculata
Registration is now open for our annual meeting,
Vascular Biology (October 14-18 in Newport, RI). Go to
www.navbo.org/vb2018
Note about the registration fees. We have not raised the registration fees, however, we are now adding a 3% surcharge to any credit card purchase in order to cover the cost of credit card transactions.
Why are we doing this? In 2017, we incurred $4,406 in credit card expenses for just the annual meeting and another $730 for Vasculata. In 2015, the total was $6,630. In 2016, we paid over $12,000 in fees for the IVBM.
If you pay by check, you can avoid this surcharge. Rather than simply raising all registration fees, NAVBO council and meeting organizers believe this is a fairer way to handle this expense.
You can also
submit an abstract for either meeting. Go to the appropriate meeting web site.
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Last Call - Host Vasculata in 2019
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Vasculata could be held at your institution!
Applications are due February 20.
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NAVBO is Encouraging Members to Attend the IVBM
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NIH - Call for Applications
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NHLBI would like to bring to your attention the following recently published Funding Announcements with rapidly approaching deadlines:
Long Non-coding RNA in Cardiovascular, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Research (R01).
See NHLBI Long Non-coding RNA RFA
to read more about this exciting research opportunity.
Application deadline: March 30, 2018
Contact: Michelle Olive, PhD, NHLBI, phone: 301-443-7933
The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program has three calls open for applications
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The Lab of Dr. Kishore Wary
 This month we are highlighting the lab of Dr. Kishore Wary, an Associate Professor of Pharmacology, who organized an extremely successful Vasculata last July at his institution, the University of Illinois at Chicago. Find out more about Dr. Wary and his lab at http://www.navbo.org/membership/members-labs/673-lab022018.
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In the market for a post-doctoral experience?
One of the toughest decisions with which PhD students must grapple as they approach completion of their graduate study concerns their post-doctoral fate. Stay in a familiar discipline or explore a new field? Stay domestic or venture internationally? Industry or academe? Work under an individual patron or as part of a training program? Fortunately, a variety of resources exist to help soon-to-be PhDs identify the available options. Some of these information sources have a distinct global perspective, such as that
assembled informally by
eLife Ambassadors. Closer to home, NAVBO's Education Committee has compiled an online listing of
Training Programs in Vascular Biology that includes contact information and descriptions of program scope and mission. The list, which is frequently updated, is grouped according to the host institution's geographic location.
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Welcome to our New Members:
Cassidy Blackburn, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Dunpeng Cai, University of Georgia
Sunitha Chandran, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Gangjian Qin, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Yang Zhang, Uppsala University
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Recent Publications by NAVBO Members
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Immunology
Programmed death-1 (PD-1) plays an important role in protecting against inflammation and myocyte damage in T-cell-mediated myocarditis. To understand whether fibrinogen-like protein-2 (FGL2) can affect the role of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway in experimental autoimmune myocarditis (EAM), we investigated cardiac function in EAM rats over-expressing FGL2. Read more Integrating light-sheet imaging with virtual reality to recapitulate developmental cardiac mechanics
Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight
Currently, there is a limited ability to interactively study developmental cardiac mechanics and physiology. We therefore combined light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) with virtual reality (VR) to provide a hybrid platform for 3D architecture and time-dependent cardiac contractile function characterization. Read more Disturbed Flow Promotes Arterial Stiffening Through Thrombospondin-1
Circulation
BACKGROUND: Arterial stiffness and wall shear stress are powerful determinants of cardiovascular health, and arterial stiffness is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality. Read more Alternative RNA splicing in the endothelium mediated in part by Rbfox2 regulates the arterial response to low flow
eLife
Low and disturbed blood flow drives the progression of arterial diseases including atherosclerosis and aneurysms. The endothelial response to flow and its interactions with recruited platelets and leukocytes determine disease progression. Read more Apo A-I (Apolipoprotein A-I) Vascular Gene Therapy Provides Durable Protection Against Atherosclerosis in Hyperlipidemic Rabbits
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
OBJECTIVE: Gene therapy that expresses apo A-I (apolipoprotein A-I) from vascular wall cells has promise for preventing and reversing atherosclerosis. Read more A computational analysis of pro-angiogenic therapies for peripheral artery disease
Integrative Biology
Inducing therapeutic angiogenesis to effectively form hierarchical, non-leaky networks of perfused vessels in tissue engineering applications and ischemic disease remains an unmet challenge, despite extensive research and multiple clinical trials. Read more Human macrophages differentially produce specific resolvin or leukotriene signals that depend on bacterial pathogenicity
Nature Communications
Proinflammatory eicosanoids (prostaglandins and leukotrienes) and specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPM) are temporally regulated during infections. Read more Resolvins suppress tumor growth and enhance cancer therapy
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Cancer therapy reduces tumor burden by killing tumor cells, yet it simultaneously creates tumor cell debris that may stimulate inflammation and tumor growth. Read more Potent anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving effects of anabasum in a human model of self-resolving acute inflammation
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Anabasum is a synthetic analogue of Δ8 - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-11-oic acid that in pre-clinical models of experimental inflammation exerts potent anti-inflammatory actions with minimal CNS cannabimimetic activity. Read more New pro-resolving n-3 mediators bridge resolution of infectious inflammation to tissue regeneration
Molecular Aspects of Medicine
While protective, the acute inflammatory response when uncontrolled can lead to further tissue damage and chronic inflammation that is now widely recognized to play important roles in many commonly occurring diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome, and many other diseases of significant public health concern. Read more |
US leadership in science and innovation under the microscope
The US has dropped to 11th place in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index, giving way to France and Israel. The index scores countries using multiple criteria, including research and development spending and concentration of high-tech public companies. The slip in the US standing traces to a slide in the post-secondary, or tertiary, education-efficiency metric, which includes the share of new science and engineering graduates in the labor force. China, already a major force in life science research, ranks at #19 on the 2018 Bloomberg list. China has overtaken the US in total numbers of academic articles published annually and appears, according to NSF estimates, on track to outspend the US in R&D within a matter of years. The NSF evaluators, however, note that the collaborative and international nature of life science research should allow individual countries to focus on research priorities rather than on competition.
New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announces a pilot program, "New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine," supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to recognize early-career SEM leaders engaged in articulating, communicating, and addressing worldwide challenges. The program is currently seeking nominations of exceptional young leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to leadership and serving the SEM community through science policy, communication, education, outreach, international or interdisciplinary engagement, leadership development, and other activities. Nominations may be submitted through February 16, 2018.
New smartphone tool smooths the path for air travelers
Our members are on the go, heading to professional meetings, invited talks, or grant review sessions. GoogleMaps, Waze, and other smartphone apps can alert travelers to traffic conditions around the airport, but what about those inevitable lines at security once inside the terminal? The travel app TripIt Pro ($49 a year) now has a feature that estimates wait times through security at several major US airports, and the vendor expects dozens of the nation's busiest airports will be included by year's end. Interior maps of the airport are displayed, routing the traveller to shortest lines. The app interacts with sensors at airport security checkpoints, providing continual updates to subscribers.
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