UNC Chapel Hill's Integrative Vascular Biology (IVB) Training Program and McAllister Heart Institute (MHI) jointly announce their Annual Research Symposium on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.  The symposium highlights graduate student and post-doc research within the cardiovascular community at UNC and the greater Chapel Hill area and promotes multi-disciplinary collaborative research in this important field. This year’s keynote speakers will be Timothy Hla (Cornell University) - Sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in vascular and immune systems  and Michelle Tallquist (University of Hawaii) - Defining the role of the fibroblast during tissue homeostasis and disease. The registration deadline is February 24^th. Graduate students and post-docs who would like to be considered for an oral presentation or a poster presentation award should submit abstracts no later than this date. Abstracts should be limited to 250 words.