The Gordon Research Seminar on Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The 2012 Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Gordon Research Seminar will encompass many different themes, and will include sessions on "New Frontiers in Excitation-Contraction Coupling" and "Hypertrophy, Failure and Cardioprotection". This forum will facilitate interaction between graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and other scientists, and will foster scientific collaboration. Participants will gain valuable presentation experience and feedback in a collegial atmosphere, and this experience will prepare them to actively participate in the ensuing Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference. Participants will also gain important insight from the keynote address by Dr. Jeffery Molkentin and a Scientific Writing Workshop, which includes a grant writing panel discussion with Dr. Howard Rockman and Dr. Barbara Casadei and a talk by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Dr. David Eisner. Overall, the 2012 Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Gordon Research Seminar will provide graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with an invaluable learning experience that will help to further their careers in research.