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�����������'s Cardiovascular Research Institute's annual symposium, now in its fifth year, was held April 4, 2017. The event highlighted the strengths and innovations of research at the institute and attracted individual posters that demonstrated the breadth of research at Baylor, and throughout the Texas Medical Center as a whole. Winners from each category are listed below.

Ann Quick, Student, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, �����������, Houston, Texas
SPEG stabilizes junctional membrane complexes and is required for adult cardiac health
Author(s): Ann P Quick¹, Qiongling Wang², Leonne E Philippen², Giselle Barreto-Torres², David Y Chiang³, David L Beavers³, Julia O Reynolds², Arjen Scholten⁴, Xander HT Wehrens^5
1CVRI/ MPB, �����������; ²CVRI/MPB, BCM; ³CVRI/TBMM, BCM; ⁴Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University; ⁵CVRI/MBP, BCM

Nanbing Li, Ph.D., Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, �����������, Houston, Texas
Ascc2 regulates cardiovascular development and proliferation during early post-implantation murine embryogenesis
Author(s): Nanbing Li¹, Leeyean Wong¹, Victor Piazza¹, Chih-Wei Hsu¹, Mary E Dickinson^1
1Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, �����������

Andrew Landstrom, M.D., Ph.D, Pediatrics-Cardiology, ����������� and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
The diagnostic value incidentally identified variants in genes associated with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in a large cohort of clinical whole exome genetic test referrals
Author(s): Andrew P Landstrom¹, Andrew L Dailey-Schwartz¹, Jill A Rosenfeld², Yaping Yang³, Christina Y Miyake⁴, Santiago O Valdes⁴, Hugh D Allen4, Daniel J Penny⁴, Jeffrey J Kim^4
1Pediatrics, �����������; ²Miraca Genetic Laboratories, �����������; ³Miraca Genetic Laboratories, Miraca Genetic Laboratories; ⁴Pediatrics/Cardiology, �����������

Vivek Singh, Ph.D., Surgical Research, �����������, Houston, Texas
Mir-590 promotes transdifferentiation of porcine and human fibroblasts towards a cardiomyocyte-like fate by directly repressing Specificity Protein 1 (Sp1)
Author(s): Vivek P Singh¹, Megumi Mathison¹, Jaya P Pinnamaneni¹, Deepthi Sanagasetti¹, Jacqueline K Olive¹, Jianchang Yang¹, Todd K Rosengart^1
1Surgery, �����������

Paul Pang, Student, Pathology & Immunology, �����������, Houston, TX
Mis-splicing of Scn5a contributes to cardiac dysfunction in myotonic dystrophy
Author(s): Paul Pang¹, Amrita Koushik², Roberta Palau², Thomas Cooper^2
1Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, �����������; ²Pathology and Immunology, �����������

Jenny Sun, Student, Neuroscience, �����������, Houston, TX
Acute pharmacogenetic stimulation of broad brainstem regions in adult mice results in potential SUDEP-like death from perturbed respiratory and cardiovascular function
Author(s): Jenny J Sun¹, Russell S Ray^1
1Neuroscience, �����������, Houston, TX

Jennifer Karmouch, Ph.D., IMM Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center
Deletion of Desmoplakin, a Gene Responsible for Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Specifically in Cardiac CSPG4pos Cells Leads to Cardiac Arrhythmias and Premature Death
Author(s): Jennifer Karmouch¹, Christina Miyaki², Raffaella Lombardi¹, Xander Wehrens², James T Willerson³ and Ali J Marian^1
1Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, ²����������� and ³Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas

Alexis “Lekki” Frazier-Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – Nutrition, ����������� and Texas Children’s Hospital
1,5 Anhydrosorbitol mediates the association between a Mediterranean-style Diet and incident Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Author(s): Alexis C Frazier-Wood¹, David Herrington^2
1Pediatrics, �����������; ²Cardiology, Wake Forest