In each of the following areas, special emphasis will be placed on:

• Novel imaging methods
• Functional genomics/ integrative physiology
• Translational (bench to bedside) approaches

• Heart Failure and Hypertrophy
• Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling
• Role of the cytoskeleton in cardiac disease
• Metabolomics
• Genomics, proteomics
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Stem cells in cardiovascular research
• Cardioprotection and preconditioning
• Mechanisms of signal transduction
• Cardiovascular gene expression
• Myocardial metabolism
• Cardiovascular pharmacology
• PPARs and cardiac gene expression
• Coronary circulation
• Diabetic cardiomyopathy
• Endothelial and smooth muscle physiology
• Insulin signalling
• Functional and structural remodelling
• Murine heart function and metabolism
• Ionic transport and homeostatis
• Ion channels and cardiac arrhythmias
• Ischemia and reperfusion
• Heart function in relation to age and gender
• Transgenic models of cardiac disease