The 2024 Spring Term Cardiac Function Seminar series talks will be back with it’s first talk of the term on Wednesday 24th January 2024
We will be welcoming Dr Davor Pavolic, University of Birmingham.
Talk Title: Regulation of intracellular sodium in health and disease
Talk Time: 12:30 – 13:30 UK time
Location: Hybrid Meeting (Hybrid – online Via Teams and Meeting room 427/428 4th Floor ICTEM, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road W12 0NN
Please note the seminar organizers and the Head of Section would like to request that attendees will in the majority of cases be physically present in the seminar room and a participation via Teams shall be the exception
Short Bio: Dr Pavlovic gained his first class BSc (Hon) in Biochemistry from University of Huddersfield in 2001. During his undergraduate degree he spent a year working at Imperial College London in a laboratory of Professor Ten Feizi. He obtained his PhD from University of Oxford (Exeter College) under the guidance of the then head of department of Biochemistry Professor Raymond Dwek and Professor Nicole Zitzmann. At Oxford Dr Pavlovic worked with a Nobel Laureate Dr Baruch Blumberg where he showed that Hepatitis C virus p7 protein forms ion channels that can be blocked by long alkyl chain iminosugars. Davor then moved to King’s College London (St Thomas Hospital campus) and took up a post of a British Heart Foundation Research Fellow in the laboratory headed by Professor Michael Shattock. In 2015, Dr Pavlovic was appointed as a Lecturer in Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Birmingham where he has set up his own research group. In 2020, Dr Pavlovic has been promoted to Associate Professor. His primary research interest is to understand molecular mechanisms of ion transport in the heart and how these may be targeted to treat cardiovascular disease. His work is translational and focused on heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiorenal syndrome. Davor acts as a Lead for Cardiac Diseases Theme at the Institute for Cardiovascular Sciences and sits on the ISHR European Section Council and acts as an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus.
Talk Summary: The talk will focus on the regulation of major sodium transporters in the heart, and their role in heart failure and atrial fibrillation pathogenesis and treatment.
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The Cardiac Function Seminar Team
(Prof. Thomas Brand, Natasha Richmond)
