June 2012
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items
Announcements:
- Castle Graduation Celebration 2012
- Congratulations on passing the Qualifying Exams!
- Caitlin Leibowitz
- Zachary Hunter
- Chad Mayer
- Nicole Stauffer
- Martin Steinbuck
- Thank you to all faculty members who assisted with the qualifying exams, with a SPECIAL Thank You Dr. Bohdana Burke
- Barb Nikolajczyk presented her team’s work at the American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting June 2012. The title of the work was “B Lymphocytes are Master Regulators of a Pro-inflammatory T Cell Balance in Obesity and Glucose Intolerance”. This work has also been selected as a plenary oral presentation for The Obesity Society Annual meeting in Sept. 2012 in San Antonio TX. Dr. Nikolajczyk has also been invited as a panel member at an Obesity Society Annual Meeting Pre-conference Workshop on Adipocyte Metabolism
- Barb Nikolajczyk also presented “B lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in obesity and glucose intolerance ” as an invited speaker at the Univ. of Pennsylvania Immmunology seminar series in June, 2012
- David Stepien, MD/PhD candidate in the Remick Lab was invited to give an oral presentation at the 35th Annual Conference on Shock entitled: “Traumatic Brain Injury Enhances the Pulmonary Immune Response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pneumonia” on June 10th in Miami Beach, FL. David also received a Travel Award from the Shock Society to attend the conference
- Welcome Summer Students in the Kurosawa Lab:
- Jonathan Greenbaum, a BU undergrad from the UROP program
- Conor Johnson, a high school student from the BU RISE program
- Ben Lee, a Pathology Master’s student
- Erin Kelley, an undergrad from Bates College in Maine
- Caitlin Miller, 2nd year PhD candidate has recently been accepted into the ITP Program. She will be doing her thesis work in Rahm Gumuluru’s Lab
Publications: ACCEPTED
- Anthony Makkinje, Pierre Vanden Borre, Richard I. Near, Prayag S. Patel and Adam Lerner. “Breast cancer anti-estrogen resistance 3 (BCAR3) augments binding of the c-Src SH3domain to Crk-associated substrate (p130Cas)” The Journal of Biological Chemistry
- Girnius S, Dember L and Lerner A. “Diabetes insipidus as presenting manifestation of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia” Journal of Hematology