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Current Seminars

Fridays at 9 a.m. in HKRB 150

This forum brings to campus prominent external speakers and provides presentations by University of Kentucky faculty to ensure their research expertise is widely known.

Previous Cardiovascular Seminar Series Sessions

Spring 2025 Semester

Date	Event Title	Speaker	Institute	Host
01/24/2025	Potential Therapeutic Use of High-Density Lipoproteins in Cardiac Surgery Patients to Suppress Intraoperative Endothelial Activation and Reduce Postoperative AKI and Delirium	Loren Smith, MD, PhD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
01/31/2025	The Journey of CARMN: From Identification to Functional Characterization	Xiangqin He, PhD	Augusta University	Hong Lu, MD, PhD
02/07/2025	Transcriptional Control of Fibrosis in Human Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease	Jonathan Brown, MD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/14/2025	Effectiveness of a Food is Medicine Program for Medicaid Adults with Hypertension and Food Insecurity-Results from American Heart Association HealthcarexFood Initiative	Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD	University of Kentucky	Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/21/2025	The Great X-Cape: X Chromosome Escape Genes Drive Metabolic Sex Differences	Carrie Wiese, PhD	University of California Los Angeles	Greg Graf, PhD
02/28/2025	Macrophage Efferocytosis in Cardiac Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Repair	Guo-Chang Fan, PhD	University of Cincinnati	Xiangan Li, PhD
03/07/2025	A "Bedside to Bench and Back" Approach to Peripheral Artery Disease Pathophysiology	Ahmed Ismaeel, PhD	University of Kentucky	Greg Graf, PhD
03/14/2025	The Myoinositol-Smit1 Pathway, A Potentially New Therapeutic Target to Treat Heart Failure	Christophe Beauloye, PhD	Institut Cardiovasculaire, Saint-Luc	Florin Despa, PhD
03/21/2025	Elucidating the Role of Fatty Acids in Thrombopoiesis During Diet-Induced Obesity	Maria Barrachina, PhD	Boston Children's Hospital	Greg Graf, PhD
03/28/2025	BAF60s and the Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm	Jifeng Zhang, PhD	University of Michigan	Hong Lu, MD, PhD
04/04/2025	When Splicing Tips the Scale: How Pre-mRNA Processing Affects Bleeding and Clotting Disorders	Amy Siebert-McKenzie, PhD	Versiti Inc.	Greg Graf, PhD
04/11/2025	Leveraging Human Genetics for Cardiovascular Precision Medicine	Satoshi Koyama, MD, PhD	Harvard Medical School	Greg Graf, PhD
04/18/2025	Safeguarding the Vasculature: The Essential Role of Matricellular Protein CCN2	Zhiyong Lin, PhD	Emory University	Hong Lu, MD, PhD
05/02/2025	Unraveling the Role of Genomic Aging for Cardiovascular Diseases Using Large-Scale Genomic Cohort	Tetsushi Nakao, MD, PhD	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Greg Graf, PhD

Fall 2025 Semester

Date	Event Title	Speaker	Institute	Host
09/12/2025	Available
09/19/2025	Dr. Koenig's primary focus is on understanding the role of inflammatory and non-inflammatory macrophages in acute and chronic cardiac injury and disease.	Andrew Koenig, PhD	Washington University in St. Louis	Greg Graf, PhD
09/26/2025	Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2025	Saha Aortic Symposium
10/03/2025	FCPS Fall Break
10/10/2025	Available
10/17/2025	Available
10/24/2025	Dr. Aday's areas of expertise include aortic aneurysms, cardiac surgery, cardiovascular disease and medicine, general cardiology, peripheral vascular and arterial disease, as well as carotid disease.	Aaron Aday, MD, MSc	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Mary Sheppard, MD
11/14/2025	Research in the Parker Lab harnesses the power of proteomic technologies to elucidate mechanisms of vascular pathology and identify putative molecular biomarkers of aneurysm and atherosclerosis.	Sarah Parker, PhD	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Abby Burrows Franco, PhD
11/21/2025	Coenzyme A As A Regulator of Mitochondrial Metabolism	Roberta Leonardi, PhD	West Virginia University	Greg Graf, PhD
12/05/2025	Available