Dear All,

You are warmly welcome to a special seminar on Tuesday, September 19, at 1 pm Place: Lecture hall 3, Biomedicum Helsinki 1 Hosted by: Wihuri Research Institute Please join in person! Otherwise, follow the seminar in Zoomhttps://helsinki.zoom.us/j/64366572019?pwd=aUo2K0lnQ2ZUcmZYQWRaVlRtY2tPUT09: Meeting ID: 643 6657 2019, Passcode: 186363 Prof. Bin Zhou Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Origins and Developmental Mechanisms of Coronary Vessels [A person wearing glasses and a white shirt Description automatically generated] Prof. Zhou is a world-class leading researcher in cardiovascular development. He received his Ph.D. in cardiovascular pathology from University of Toronto, Canada, and trained as a post-doctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Currently, he is Professor of Genetics, Pediatrics (Pediatric Genetics), and Medicine (Cardiology) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

His studies focus on mechanisms that control heart development and aim to dissect the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease. Prof. Zhou's lab has vast expertise in advanced single cell technologies and CRISPR gene editing.

https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/11217/bin-zhou/

Selected publications:

Lu P, Wang Y, Wu B, Russell M., Bernard, DJ, Zheng D, Zhou, B. Prerequisite endocardial-mesenchymal transition for cardiac trabecular angiogenesis. Dev Cell 2023 May 8. PMID: 37023750.

Lu P, Wu B, Feng X, Cheng W, Kitsis RN, Zhou B. Cardiac Myosin Heavy Chain Reporter Mice to Study Heart Development and Disease. Circ Res 2022 Aug 5. PMID: 35862119.

Lu P, Wang Y, Wu B, Liu Y, Wang Y, Liu Y, Cheng W, Feng X, Yuan X, Atteya MM, Ferro H, Sugi Y, Rydquist G, Esmaily M, Butcher JT, Chang CP, Lenz J, Zheng D, Zhou B. A SOX17-PDGFB signaling axis regulates aortic root development. Nat Commun 13 Jul 2022. PMID: 35831318.

Lu P, Wang Y, Liu Y, Wang Y, Wu B, Zheng D, Harvey RP, Zhou B. Perinatal angiogenesis from preexisting coronary vessels via DLL4/NOTCH1 signaling. Nat Cell Biol. Sep 23, 2021. PMID: 34497373

Wang Y, Lu P, Jiang L, Wu B, Zhou B. Control of sinus venous valve and sinoatrial node development by endocardial NOTCH1. Cardiovasc Res. 2020 Jul 1. PMID: 31591643.

Please contact Ibrahim Sultan (Ibrahim.sultan@helsinki.fimailto:Ibrahim.sultan@helsinki.fi) or Prof. Kari Alitalo (kari.alitalo@helsinki.fimailto:kari.alitalo@helsinki.fi) if you wish to discuss with Prof. Zhou after his talk.

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