DrPamela Swiatlowska

Understanding how mechanical forces regulate cell behaviour in healthy and disease conditions (atherosclerosis, heart failure) by adopting a multidisciplinary approach (molecular biology, bioinformatics, bioengineering, super-resolution microscopy, biophysics).


Scientific meetings/Conferences

Oral presentations
• 2024 European Atherosclerotic Society Annual Meeting, France, “Hypertensive pressure alone triggers SMC to foam cell phenotype” (upcoming)
• Imperial College London NHLI 2024 Spring Seminar “A tale of cardiovascular mechanoregulation: focus on smooth muscle cells and cardiomyocytes”.
• 2024 Mechano-Genomics EMBO Workshop, Italy, “Hypertensive pressure alone triggers SMC to foam cell phenotype”
• King’s College London invited 2024 seminar speaker “ Mechanoregulation of smooth muscle phenotype”
• London Heart Meeting 2023, London, UK ‘’Pressure and stiffness-dependent smooth muscle cells phenotypic switching”
• European Muscle Club Conference 2023, Florence, Italy ‘’Mechano-regulation of smooth muscle cells phenotypic switching”
• SEMS Biodivision PDRA Seminar Series QMUL, London 2023 ‘’Piezo1-regulatory role in smooth muscle cells phenotypic switching”
• Brunel University London Seminar 2023 “Mechanoregulation in the cardiovascular system”
• Invited speaker at the 2023 Queen Mary Postdoc Conference, London, UK
• 8th Meeting of The Invadosome Consortium 2022, Sete, France “Pressure- and stiffness-dependent smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching”
• British Society for Cardiovascular Research Annual Meeting, Belfast 2022 “Pressure- and stiffness-dependent smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching”
• British Cardiovascular Society-British Atherosclerosis Society, Manchester 2022 “Tools to study cardiovascular mechanobiology”
• SEMS Biodivision PDRA Seminar Series QMUL, London 2021 ‘’How mechanical stimuli guide the behavior of vascular smooth muscle cells”.
• 2nd International Conference Scanning Probe Microscopy for Biological Applications 2020 “Microtubular network remodeling - implications for cardiac mechanobiology”
• Invited talk at Mechanobiology Institute NUS Singapore 2019, ‘’MechanoSICM as a novel tool to measure transverse Young’s modulus’’
• Fulbright Commission BioLAB Symposium, Warsaw Poland 2019 ‘’Being a research scientist’
• National Heart and Lung Institute Postgraduate Day, London UK 2018, “Regulation of cardiac mechanics in the failing heart”
• NHLI Myocardial Function Symposium, London 2017, UK “Nanomechanics of membrane and cellular contacts in normal and failing heart”
• BioLAB Fulbright Commission 2015 Symposium, Charlottesville, USA “Role of Oct4 in myeloid cells expressing LysM gene during atherogenesis”

Conference Poster Presentations
• Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling and Arrhythmias Conference 2022, Freiburg, Germany
• XXIV ISHR World Congress 2022, Berlin, Germany
• 10th International Workshop on Cardiomyocyte Biology 2021 Ascona
• virtual 65th Annual Biophysical Meeting 2021
• virtual American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2020
• ESC Heart Failure Congress, Athens, Greece 2019
• 63rd Annual Biophysical Meeting, Baltimore, USA 2019
• Heart Failure Winter Meeting, European Society of Cardiology, Switzerland 2019
• National Heart and Lung Institute Postgraduate Day London 2017, UK
• International Society for Heart Research Meeting, Hamburg 2017, Germany
• Science Polish Perspectives Conference, Oxford 2016, UK
• Cardiac Mechano-Electric Coupling and Arrhythmias Conference; Freiburg 2016, Germany
• Alternative Muscle Club Meeting, Imperial College London 2016, UK
• National Heart and Lung Institute Postgraduate Research Day London, UK 2016;