Cardiovascular Insights Seminar

We are pleased to invite you to join the second Cardiovascular Insights Seminar, taking place on May 13th, 2026, from 9 am to 1 pm at MDC Buch (Axon 2). 

The seminar will feature:

• Talks by students and postdocs
• A networking reception
• A keynote lecture 

This is a fantastic opportunity for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to share the latest updates on their projects and connect with colleagues across the cardiovascular research community at the MDC. By the end of the seminar, PhD students will receive certificates of participation or presentation to upload to their PhDlog. 

Please register and submit your 3-sentence abstract here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/YFARj1jxs5

Agenda

 

Start	End	Session
09:00	09:05	Welcome & opening (Mitch, Michael, and Daria)
09:05	10:35	Session 1 Vascular, Cardiovascular & Endothelial Biology (6 talks, 10+5min) Chair: TBA
		Nurana Tagiyeva	Role of Gut Microbiota-Derived Metabolites such as Short-Chain Fatty Acids on Hypertensive Target Organ Damage
		Clara Barraud	Cardiometabolic stress induces niche-specific macrophage reprogramming that controls vascular dysfunction and cardiac repair
		Tim Petzold	Unravelling arteriovenous cell fate induction in zebrafish
		Emir Akmeric	Against the Current: VEGF Orchestrates Collective Endothelial Migration Under Flow

		Athira Suresh	Functional characterization of Foxo1 in bone marrow endothelial cells
		Paul-Lennard Mendez	Clonal expansion in human atherosclerosis
10:35	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	12:30	Session 2 Inflammation, Regeneration, Kidney & Translational Omics (6 talks, 10+5min) Chair: TBA
		Martina Bouka	Investigating the association between inflammatory proteins and mortality among people with colorectal cancer by a Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization
		Mariam Samaan	How Sodium Sensors Influence Gene and Protein Regulation
		Olena Potapenko	Inflammatory signatures associated with kidney function and its trajectories after transplantation
		Celine Janssen	A non-toxic Cortinarian toxin promotes water reabsorption in renal collecting duct principal cells - potential for the treatment of diabetes insipidus
		Akerke Altaikyzy	Definitive hematopoiesis and endocardial lineages establish distinct local immune reservoirs for cardiac regeneration
		Alina Frolova	From Single-Model Insight to Cross-Model Discovery: Integrating Multi-Cohort Cardiovascular Omics to Compare Biological Pathways
12:30	13:00	Keynote lecture by Gerhard Hindricks
13:00	13:10	Closing remarks
13:10	13:45	Light Lunch & Get together