January 2020 Discover CircRes

<p>This month on Episode 8 of the <em>Discover CircRes</em> podcast, host Cindy St. Hilaire  speaks with Nikki Purcell and  Sean Wu, the chair and vice-chair of the BCVS Early Career Committee. The episode also features an interview with the 2019 BCVS Early Career Finalists, Dr Luigi Adamo, Dr Swati Dey, and Dr Jihoon Nah. In addition, we highlight three featured articles from the January 3 and January 17, 2020 issues of <em>Circulation Research</em>.</p> <p> </p> <div> <p>Article highlights:</p> </div> <p> </p> <p>Souza, et al. <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315506">Upregulation of Plasma SPM by Enriched Marine Oils</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Paredes, et al. <a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315932">Metabolic Control of VSMC Phenotype</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Ritterhoff, et al<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315483">.  ACC2 Deletion Prevents Aspartate Synthesis</a></p> <div> <p><strong>Transcript</strong></p> </div> <p>Dr St. Hilaire: Hi. Welcome <em>to Discover CircRes</em>, the podcast of the American Heart Association Journal, <em>Circulation Research</em>. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire, and I'm an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.</p> <p>The goal of this podcast is to share with you highlights from recent articles published in the <em>Circulation Research</em> Journal. But today, we're going to have a special edition focused on early career.</p> <p>The American Heart Association has 16 different councils. One of which is basic cardiovascular sciences,  or BCVS. The BCVS Scientific Sessions is held annually and brings together basic and translational cardiovascular scientists from around the world. It has become the go-to meeting for intra and interdisciplinary cross fertilization of ideas in basic cardiovascular research.</p> <p>The overarching goal is to integrate molecular, and cellular, and physiological approaches to address problems relating to functional genomics, cell signaling, myocardial bio