TABLE OF CONTENTS Schedule for the Day ............................................................................................................................. 2 2017 Gill Heart Institute Young Investigator Award ................................................................. 6 2017 Distinguished Alumni Speaker .............................................................................................. 7 Featured Speakers ................................................................................................................................. 8 Event Supporters ................................................................................................................................. 11 Poster Judges ........................................................................................................................................ 13 Poster Participants ............................................................................................................................. 14 Abstracts ................................................................................................................................................ 16 Survey ................................................................................................................................................... 121 1
SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY Friday, November 3 University of Kentucky Cardiovascular Research Day Lexington Convention Center | Bluegrass Ballrooms 8:15 am Guest Check –In Begins | Continental Breakfast | Bluegrass Prefunction 8:30 am Career Development Session for Trainees | Continental Breakfast | Thoroughbred Room 8 9:30 am Scientific Session I | Bluegrass Ballroom I Chair: Gregory Graf, Ph.D. and Gia Mudd-Martin, Ph.D., MPH, R.N. 9:30 am Alan Daugherty, Ph.D., D.Sc., Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center Welcoming Comments 9:35 am Trainee Presentations Ahmed Al-Darraji | Ahmed Abdel-Latif Lab | University of Kentucky Azithromycin Therapy Reduces Cardiac Inflammation and Mitigates Adverse Cardiac Remodeling after Myocardial Infarction: Potential Therapeutic Targets Kelsey Conrad | Phil Owens Lab | University of Cincinnati Increased Circulating Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) Augments the Incidence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Low Penetrant C57BL/6J Mice Ryan Allen, Ph.D. | Kasey Vickers Lab | Vanderbilt University Circulating Bacterial Small RNA Bound to LDL Induce Inflammatory Activation of Macrophages 2
36 Optimization of immunomagnetic s
38 Gestational Diabetes Provokes Po
40 The Prognostic Role of Elevated
42 Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptor 4
44 Recapitulating In Vivo Fibroblas
46 Sex-Specific Differences in Card
48 Ticagrelor Reduces Inflammation
50 Association between Plasma Chole
52 Does Light Pollution Affect the
54 Impact of miR-33 antagonism on m
56 Isolation and characterization o
58 The XY sex chromosome complement
60 CHROME: a Long Non-coding RNA th
62 Making Good: Secretory Quality C
64 Thrombospondin 1 (TSP1) Deficien
66 Serum Amyloid A3 is a High Densi
68 Adipocyte deficiency of ACE2 inc
70 Hypercholesterolemia-induced end
72 Increased Circulating Trimethyla
74 Circulating Bacterial Small RNA
76 Pancreatic Beta Cell Export of m
78 Understanding inhibition of lipo
80 Insulin signaling regulates apol
82 Protease-activated Receptor 2 De
84 Reduced Low-Density Lipoprotein
86 Pharmacological inhibition of Hu
88 The Effects of Hypercholesterole
90 Reduced HDL in mice overexpressi
92 Human Antigen R (HuR) Regulates
94 Impact of miR-33 antagonism on c
96 HB-EGF is a Key Positive Regulat
98 HDL-miR-223 Communication Pathwa
100 Short-Term Exercise Training Di
102 The Ral-Exocyst Pathway Regulat
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