Lecture Series “Vascular Networking”

Pursuing its mission, the Berlin Center for Translational Vascular Biomedicine (VasBioBerlin) initiated the Lecture Series “Vascular Networking” in February 2021 to invite distinguished experts and promote international scientific exchange to both enrich the Berlin scientific community and provide the foundation for new and visionary collaborations.
The lecture series takes place on the last Wednesday of every month at 3 pm CET. It is conducted in an online-format and attracts a broad audience from the wider Berlin community. The event comprises a 45 min talk and a 15 min open discussion followed by a 1 hour closed exchange with 3-4 interested experts.

Previous speakers are:

  • Katrien De Bock (ETH Zürich, Schweiz)
    “Endothelial Metabolism and Cellular Crosstalk in the Muscle”
  • Saskia C.A. de Jager (University Medical Center Utrecht, Niederlande)
    “Inflammation in the Failing Heart: From Biomarker Towards Therapeutic Intervention?”
  • Ingrid Fleming (Goethe University Frankfurt, Deutschland)
    “Relevance of Protein Post-Translation Modification by Hydrogen Sulphide for Vascular Disease”
  • Paul Riley (University of Oxford, UK)
    “Targeting the Cardiac Lymphatics to Optimise Heart Repair”
  • Filippo Crea (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, Italien)
    “Mechanisms of Acute Coronary Syndromes”
  • Manuel Mayr (King’s College London, UK)
    “Multi-Omics Approaches for Systems Biology in Human Cardiovascular Disease”
  • Mark Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)
    “Signaling Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease”
  • Anjali Kusumbe (University of Oxford) 
    “Vascular Control of Tissue Ageing and Regeneration”
  • Claudia Langenberg (Berlin Institute of Health in der Charité - BIH) 
    “What Can Blood-based Omics Deliver for Clinical Translation?”
  • Karina Yaniv (Weizmann Institute of Science)
    "Vascular Heterogeneity in Organ Growth and Regeneration"
  • Sara S. Nunes de Vasconcelos (Toronto General Hospital Research Institute - TGHRI, University of Toronto)
    "Multicellular Vascular Systems as Fundamental Tools in Discovery and Regeneration"
  • Hellmut Augustin (Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim (CBTM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University):
    "Vascular Mulitomics To Decipher Endothelial Functional Angiodiversity"
  • Kristy Red-Horse (Stanford University)
    "Development, Regeneration, and Repair of Coronary Blood Vessels in the Heart"
  • Klaus Ley (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, United States)
    ​​​​​​​"Elongated Neutrophil-derived Structures (Ends) In the Blood Circulation"

The next Networking Event will be held on April 12, 2023:

Lena Claesson-Welsh (Professor in Medical Biochemistry at Uppsala University)
"Vascular Impact on Tissue Function"

Further information

Past Events

  • 21 October 2021: Symposium: Independent Group Leader Position in Data Science

    Five outstanding young scientists with diverse topics and backgrounds will share their work and vision.

    >> hosted by the Berlin Center for Translational Vascular Biomedicine (BIH | MDC)

    When:
    21 October 2021
    9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Where:
    Hybrid Event
    (at MDC Campus and via Zoom)
    MDC
    Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
    Max Delbrück Communications Center | Axon 1
    13125 Berlin, Germany

    More Informationen here.

  • 27 January 2021: “Ocular Diagnostics of Endothelial Dysfunction”, joint workshop with the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC)

    The joint online workshop put current methods from ocular diagnostics into the context of endothelial dysfunction. 61 researchers and clinicians interested in current methods to study endothelial functionality and diagnose dysfunctions participated in the workshop. The diverse speaker panel presented different techniques, together with case studies, followed by an open discussion. This event rose awareness about locally available equipment and techniques to analyze endothelial functionality in humans and animal models. Furthermore, an exchange about knowledge on possible applications for population-based screens, as well as target-oriented research took place. The participants agreed that the area of ocular diagnostics offers unique opportunities to transfer scientific methods into translation and clinical use and that it is important to mirror preclinical data into the clinical situation.

  • 9 December 2020: Project Workshop

    One year after the kick-off event, the VasBioBerlin community met online to examine current developments and to discuss how the pandemic impacted vascular biomedical research. The focus of this workshop was the presentation of 10 research projects that had been selected for funding by VasBioBerlin. (More information of the funded project can be found here.) In breakout sessions, the participants exchanged their experiences from the pandemic and identified advantages and challenges of newly developed models and methods.

  • 19 and 20 May 2020: Covid-Workshop

    As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, VasBioBerlin organized an online-workshop in 2 sessions (May 19 and 20, 2020) to encourage an interdisciplinary exchange about planned and ongoing COVID-19-related research activities in Berlin. 29 interested BIH, Charité & MDC researchers and clinicians with diverse backgrounds participated and developed concepts on how to gain a greater understanding of the endothelial and vascular component of COVID-19. Based on short presentations of their research projects and studies in session 1, participants used session 2 to discuss and develop new approaches on 1) how to analyze endothelial dysfunction phenotypes in COVID-19, 2) How to study the heterogeneity of vascular end organ involvement in COVID-19, and 3) how to model vascular pathomechanisms of COVID-19 ex vivo.

  • 10 December 2019: Kick-off Workshop Translational Vascular Biomedicine

    On December 10 2019, over 60 researchers and clinicians from BIH, Charité, and MDC came together for the kick-off workshop at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB). In the course of 20 flash talks, the participants presented current issues and unmet clinical needs in the area of vascular biomedicine. Based on the topics presented, participants subsequently split up in three interest groups, “Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammation”, “Vascular remodeling”, and “Vascularized Organoids”, where they discussed and defined central questions and relevant diseases of the field and outlined promising translational approaches. VasBioBerlin is using the results gained in the workshop to further specify its translational aims.

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