The first notes I have for the day are from a talk by Alexy Zaitsev titled “Many Faces of Ventricular Fibrillation in the Ischemic Heart,” a title which he gradually worked up to from something much simpler, given what a complex issue it is.
I was very excited when he came to speak at Tulane last [...]

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This is out of order, but I’m concentrating on other things. Here we are at Kalyra this afternoon. It was featured in the movie “Sideways.” From left to right: Blanca, me, Natalia, Molly

We bought a couple of bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon after tasting their selection. The Gewurtztraminer was amazing, we may go back and [...]

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I don’t have notes for whether I ran on the third day of the conference or not. If memory serves me correctly, I did, and it was the last one. The morning sessions started off with a talk on calmodulin as a sensor for calcium regulation. I don’t have record handy of who the [...]

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I awoke without need of an alarm on the second day and went for a run at 6 am. It was dark and rainy when I started out, but the rain had stopped by the time I returned to the hotel. The Marriott was pretty close to town, and I found “The Hitching Post” [...]

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This is a backdated post, intended as a summary of the first day of the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmias

Travel
Travel was long, though rather uneventful. We arrived at the airport in New Orleans on time, had some trouble with checking in using the United machines, so we had to talk to someone at [...]

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