The 2026-2027 ACRC Cardiovascular Seminar Series will take place in 2117 MERF.  All Seminars will be held on Friday afternoons at 1:00 pm.

October 9, 2026

Rebekah Gundry, PhD

Stokes-Shackleford Professor of Physiology

Chair, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Director, UNMC Center for Heart and Vascular Research

Scientific Director, UNMC Mass Spectrometry Core

University of Nebraska Medical Center

November 13, 2026 

Benjamin Prosser, PhD

Professor of Physiology

Associate Director, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute (PMI), Perelman School of Medicine

Director, Center for Epilepsy and NeuroDevelopment Disorders (ENDD)

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

*Seminar moved to BSB Aud 2 Spivey

December 12, 2026 - ACRC Research Retreat 

Maria Kontaridis, PhD

Executive Director

Gordon K. Moe Professor and Chair

Biomedical Research and Translational Medicine

Director of Research, Masonic Medical Research Institute

January 15, 2027

Farah Sheikh, PhD

Professor of Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

University of California San Diego

February 12, 2027

Francisco Alvarado, PharmD, PhD

Assistant Professor Cardiovascular Medicine

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

April 9, 2027

David Lefer, PhD

Professor Cardiac Surgery

Director, Translational Research Cardiac Surgery

Smidt Heart Institute

Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University