April 23, 2015 Meeting Room 28, at 1 to 5 PM Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99 8200 Aarhus N.

This symposium covers what is considered common knowledge by many; the structure and function of the heart. Contrary, to what is generally believed this field of research is constantly developing and is far from completely understood.

Participation is free of charge

Organizer: Peter Agger, MDpeter.agger@clin.au.dk

Introduction Dr. Peter Agger, DK

The Impact of Myocardial Structure in Heart Failure and Disease Dr. David MacIver, UK

Development of Ventricular Septal Defects Prof. Robert H. Anderson, UK.

Structural Details Affecting Mechanical Function in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Prof. Jonathan Jarvis, UK

The Cardiac Conduction System - There is Much More to Learn! Dr. Halina Dobrzynski, UK

Coffee Break

3D Visualization of the Myocardium using Micro-CT Dr. Robert S. Stephenson, UK

Myocardial Antagonism - What is it and Why is it Important? Prof. Paul Lunkenheimer, Germany

Development of 3D Virtual Atria for Studying Atrial Fibrillation Prof. Henggui Zhang, UK

THE HEART - THE BASICS BEYOND Symposium on Advances in Cardiac Structure and Function

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Aarhus University Hospital

David MacIver, MD is a consultant cardiologist at Taunton & Somerset Hospital, UK. His research aims are to use established engineering science and physics based methods to understand heart diseases such as heart failure.

Prof. Robert H. Anderson, MD, PhD Retired professor of paediatric cardiac morphology from Institute of Child Health, University College of London. Professor Anderson has published numerous books and articles on virtually all congenital cardiac malformations. His field of expertise is the anatomy and development of the normal and congenitally malformed heart.

Prof. Jonathan C. Jarvis, BSc, PhD Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at the Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Jarvis has made several scientific contributions in the field of muscle physiology including cardiac muscle.

Robert S. Stephenson, BSc, PhD Stephenson has a Post Doc position at the Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research is within the field of high resolution three dimensional visualization of cardiac muscle.

Prof. Paul P. Lunkenheimer, Dr.med. Paul Lunkenheimer is an emeritus professor from the University of Münster in Germany. He is one of the worlds leading experts in cardiodynamics and he has coined several new concepts in cardiac physiology such as the intrinsic antagonism within the myocardium, which is currently his main focus in research.

THE LECTURERS

Prof. Henggui Zhang Henggui Zhang is a professor of biological physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. His research interests include modelling of the electrical activity of cardiac cells at single cell level and at tissue and organ levels.

Halina Dobrzynski, BSc, PhD Dobrzynski is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester. Her current focus of research is the molecular make-up of the human sinus and atrioventricular nodes, as well as functional and structural changes in the cardiac conduction system in health, aging and disease.

THE HEART - THE BASICS BEYOND Symposium on Advances in Cardiac Structure and Function

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Aarhus University Hospital