LIVE WEBINAR: Understanding the Heart’s Intracellular Orchestra: Functional Characterization of Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Cardiomyocytes
During this live webinar, Joe Soughayer and Adam Veteto will present tools to characterize E-C coupling in isolated adult cardiomyocytes and iPSC-/ESC-derived cardiomyocytes. They will describe how these tools work and how they quantify important functional outputs describing the speed and amplitude of calcium release and reuptake, as well as downstream myocyte shortening and relengthening. Real world examples of data collection, analysis, and interpretation will also be shown.
Key learning objectives include:
- What quantitative approaches can you take to understand excitation-contraction coupling?
- What does characterization of excitation-contraction coupling reveal about cardiac physiology/pathophysiology?
About the speakers:
Joe Soughyer, PhD
Manager of Business Development
IonOptix
Dr. Joe Soughayer is the Manager of Business Development at IonOptix. He has over 14 years of experience at IonOptix in applications support as well as marketing. Prior to that, he helped develop novel tools to study intracellular signaling utilizing a variety of microscopy and fluorescence approaches during his PhD and postdoctoral work.
Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
IonOptix/University of Missouri
Dr. Adam Veteto joined IonOptix as an Applications Scientist in 2019 after completing his PhD in Medical Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Missouri. He continues collaborating with investigators at MU to elucidate mechanisms underlying changes in cardiac calcium homeostasis with aging due to mechanical perturbation.