Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre

Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre

Cardiovascular discovery and therapeutics

David J. Beech: Research Lab

Example invited talks

Invited speaker and session chair at the 2012 FASEB Smooth Muscle Conference, 24-29 June, Steamboat, USA.

Invited speaker at the Cross Themed Meeting of The Physiological Society, 15-17 December 2010, Durham University, UK.

Invited speaker at GPCR Helsinki 2010 (26-27 August), Finland. “Integration of GPCRs, lipids and TRPC channels”.

36th IUPS World Congress, Kyoto, Japan, July 27 - August 1, 2009.  Symposium: Regulation of Vascular Function and Cell Proliferation by Ion Channels.

Satellite Symposium on the “Molecular Functions of Ion Channels and Transporters in Smooth Muscles and Vascular Endothelial Cells”, July 24 – July 25 2009, Nagoya, Japan.

Annual meeting of the Union of Swiss Societies for Experimental Research (January, 2009), Interlaken, Switzerland. "Membranes in motion".

Plenary Lecture at the 2008 Annual Conference of Beijing Society for Physiological Sciences: “Ion transport systems and vascular remodeling”.

Beijing Joint Conference on "Physiology in medicine – bridging bench and bedside". Ion channels and cardiovascular disease. October 2008.

Workshop on “Methods in Cardiovascular Pharmacology” for the British Pharmacological Society, Manchester, UK, 18-19 July 2008.

5th International EDHF Symposium – Endothelium, Vasoactive Factors and Inflammation, Tampere, Finland, June 24-27, 2008.  Lecture title: “Ion transport systems and vascular remodelling”.

Physiological Society symposium on “Ion Channels and the Microcirculation” at the Peter Frogett Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland (April 2007).  “Vascular ion channel switching and regulation”.

China-UK symposium on Structure, Signaling and Neuroscience, Beijing, China (May 2007).  “Polymodality, gating control and function of mammalian TRP calcium channels”.

Life Sciences 2007 (Glasgow, Scotland), a joint meeting between The Biochemical Society, The Physiological Society and the British Pharmacological Society.  Symposium title: “Remodelling of blood vessels and cell proliferation”.

Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Heart & Stroke / Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research (HSRLCE) at the University of Toronto, Canada (October 2007).  Lecture title: “Ion channels switching and activation in occlusive vascular disease”.

Ion Channels & Cancer. November 2007, Schloss Ringberg, Germany.  Lecture title: “REST transcription factor control of ion channel expression during cell activation.”