Dr. Jeffrey Spees, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine, will present “Rescue and Repair of Cardiac Tissue After Injury: Turning Star Trek into Sesame Street,” on Wednesday, March 1, at the Town and Country Resort, 876 Mountain Road, Stowe. Doors open at 1 p.m. and the lecture begins promptly at 1:30 p.m. This is the eighth Osher Lifelong Learning Institute lecture of the winter series.
Spees earned his Ph.D. in physiological and molecular ecology at the University of California, Davis. At UVM he teaches courses in developmental neurobiology, human structure and function and stem cells and regenerative medicine.
Spees has directed the Stem Cell Core in UVM’s Department of Medicine and was one of the founding members of the New England Stem Cell Consortium. Spees and his colleagues have developed and applied for a patent for a therapy using a protein complex that is highly protective and keeps cells alive. He will discuss this research and its role in repairing cardiac tissue to improve cardiac function after a heart attack.
Vermont musicologist Joel Najman will present the final lecture of the winter series, “Rock ‘n’ Roll: From Elvis to Lady Gaga,” on Wednesday, March 8.
The lecture is $5 and refreshments will be served after the talk. To check on weather cancellations, listen to WDEV 550 AM or WLVB 93.9 FM or call Town and Country Resort at 253-7595. To sponsor a lecture, a series or refreshments, call Dick Johannesen, 253-8475. Information: learn.uvm.edu/osher.
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