Subject:	Invitation to the inaugural lecture of Professor Peter Kohl \| 16 September 2013
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:38:37 +0100
From:	O'Donnell, Ruth A <r.odonnell@imperial.ac.uk>
To:	Faculty of Medicine, NHLI <icsm-nhli-dl@imperial.ac.uk>

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The honour of your company is requested at an inaugural lecture:

"Exploring the amazing heart: devil in detail, heaven in integration"

Professor Peter Kohl, Chair in Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology

Date: Monday 16 September 2013
Time: 17.30 – 18.30
Venue: Lecture Theatre G16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, South Kensington Campus (building no 33 on the map). Travel information for the South Kensington Campus can be found on the Imperial website.

A pre-lecture tea will take place from 16.45 on the first floor concourse, Sir Alexander Fleming Building.

RSVP: Ruth O’Donnell r.odonnell@imperial.ac.uk

Scientifically viewed, the heart is a chemically powered, electrically controlled, mechanical pump, but the way in which it performs is nothing short of amazing. Heart structure and function are tightly interrelated in ways that we are still discovering. Cardiac muscle hosts a multitude of complex regulatory mechanisms that allow the heart to perform even after transplantation into another body and multiple feedback mechanisms provide the heart with an astonishing ability to adapt to the body’s constantly changing demand in blood circulation. This happens during every heartbeat and roughly a million times during every ten-day period of our life.

Given the importance of cardiac activity, it is surprising how many aspects of the heart are still poorly understood. This lecture will show that linking scientific observations of structure and function from sub-cellular scales to the whole body is essential in driving fundamental research and clinical application.

Peter Kohl holds the Chair in Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology at Imperial’s National Heart and Lung Institute. He also is a visiting professor at the Department for Computer Science at the University of Oxford.

Peter studied Medicine and Biophysics at the Moscow Pirogov Institute and after post-graduate training and research at the Berlin Charité he joined the Cardiac Electrophysiology Chair of Professor Denis Noble at the University of Oxford. In 1998, Peter set up the Oxford Cardiac Mechano-Electric Feedback lab, initially as a Royal Society Research Fellow and subsequently as a Senior Fellow of the British Heart Foundation.

Peter’s team enjoys a strong international reputation in cardiac mechano-electrical interaction studies as a result of their ability to cross traditional boundaries between fields (engineering, biophysics, biology, computing) and levels (ion channel to whole organ) of investigation. Peter directs a portfolio of externally-funded research (supported by ERC, BHF, BBSRC, EPSRC and EC), and he has been a driver of international collaborations such as the Network of Excellence for the EU Virtual Physiological Human Initiative. He serves on a number of editorial boards, as a reviewer for international journals and funding bodies and is the coordinating editor of the primary textbook on Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling and Arrhythmias.


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