October 2015

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – October 2015

Announcements:
- Daniel Remick was an invited speaker at the Satellite Symposium on Alcohol and Immunology, Society for Leukocyte Biology, Raleigh North Carolina on September 28^th: Acute ethanol ingestion triggers asthma
- Kazem Azadzoi had two recent presentations at the International Continence Society (ICS) meeting in Montreal, Canada, October 6-9, 2015:
  - Zhao Z, Yang J, Li Y, Azadzoi K presented an oral ePoster entitled “Ischemia Survival Signaling Via PI3-K/Akt Pathway mediates Overactive Bladder Progression to Underactive Bladder”
  - Su N, Choi H, Yang J, Azadzoi K presented an oral ePoster entitled “Chronic Ischemia Alters the Bladder Proteomic Profiles and Activates Degenerative Pathways and Survival Signaling” at
- Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD is organizing a FASEB Scientific Research Conference Entitled “Immunological Aspects of Obesity” July 31-August 5, 2016 in Big Sky, Montana. Those interested in more information can go to org or contact her directly at bnikol@bu.edu
PUBLICATIONS ACCEPTED:
- Yi-Chien Chang¹, Zhenjun Hu¹, John Rachlin², Brian P. Anton³, Simon Kasif^1,4*, Richard J. Roberts³*, Martin Steffen^4,⁵ COMBREX-DB: A Database Of Protein Function Prediction Emphasizing Foundational Experimental Data; Nucleic Acids Research