Prof Donald Bers

Calmodulin and CAMKII signalling in the heart

Prof Donald Bers is the Joseph Silva Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at University of California, Davis. Dr. Bers holds a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and began his faculty career at the University of California, Riverside where he rose to Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Biomedical Sciences (1982-1992), before being recruited to Loyola University Chicago as Chair of Physiology (1992-2008). Since 2008 he has been a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology where he has developed strong research and teaching programs. He is a world-renowned expert on the cellular and molecular factors that regulate heart excitation and contraction, and was recognizedin 2012 as a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association. . His research has advanced the scientific understanding of cardiac myocyte dynamics with innovative experimental techniques, an emphasis on quantitative measurements, and a unique ability to synthesize experimental results from many levels of biology into an integrated picture of heart function. Dr. Bers’ innovative and highly active research has resulted in authorship of more than 350 scientific papers, book chapters and review articles in top-flight journals, including Nature, JCI & Circulation.

Dr Kay Colthorpe

From active learning to self-regulated learning

Dr Kay Colthorpe is a teaching-focused lecturer in the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBMS) at the University of Queensland (UQ). She is the Chair of the Education Research Unit in SBMS, and was a UQ Teaching Fellow in 2010. Her