Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – August 2016

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – August 2016

  • Announcements:
    • Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa was named as a co-inventor with Dr. Ekinci and co-workers in the BU Mechanical Engineering department on the provisional patent submission entitled  METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING BASED ON FLUCTUATIONS OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE IN A MIRCROCHANNEL
    • Joel Henderson is now the Laboratory Director for the Framingham Heart Study; he is responsible for the FHS clinical laboratory and the FHS biobank which holds over 1.4 million specimens.
    • Israa Lakloud and Dr. Carmen Sarita-Reyes had an abstract presented at the AHR 2016  Conference at the University of Rochester. An AHR-mediated Positive Feedback Loop that Enforces Cell Migration in Triple Negative Human Breast Cancer Cells; Olga Novikov1 , Zhongyan Wang1 , Elizabeth A. Stanford1, Ashley J. Parks1, Alejandra Ramirez- Cardenas1, Esther Landesman1, Israa Laklouk2, Carmen Sarita-Reyes2, Daniel Gusenleitner3, Amy Li3, Stefano Monti3, Sara Manteiga4, Kyongbum Lee4 and David H. Sherr1 1Boston University School of Public Health, 2Boston University School of Medicine, 3Boston University Division of Computational Biomedicine, 4Tufts University School of Engineering
    • Tim Norman, PhD Candidate/Fine Lab received a $1500 scholarship from Jackson Labs to attend their 25th Annual Short Course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer – August 20 – 27, 2016.  The course included both seminars and hands-on workshops focused on patient-derived xenografts, single cell sequencing, and bioinformatics
    • Max Vaickus, second year MS student in the Remick Lab was selected for a Travel Award and a Young Investigator’s Presentation at the 39th Annual Conference on Shock this past June down in Austin, Texas.  Max’s talk was titled: “Mild traumatic brain injury mobilizes Mesenchymal Stromal Cells into circulation, role of Substance P?”
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    • SHOCK President, Dr. Rosemary Kozar, Max Vaickus and Dr. Daniel Remick at the 2016 SHOCK Conference
    • Lois Bayigga, MS, one of our recent graduates, has just been awarded the MUII Wellcome Trust Scholarship. The program is Makerere University Infection and Immunity program (MUII). It is funded by Wellcome Trust of the U.K. It offers a 3 year PhD scholarship. It is based at Makerere University in Uganada and allows collaboration with universities in the north. Lois will be collaborating with Dr.  Deborah Anderson on her PhD project so she will be returning to Boston to do some of her work. Bravo Lois!
    • Susan Winandy has just finished serving on the Institutional Animal Use and Care Committee.
    • One of BU STaRs students, Erika Banuelos, under the tutelage of John Kim in the Remick Lab, present her program culmination poster titled “Inhibitory IgG Interferes with Macrophage Killing of Bacteria via the Fc-FcR pathway” on Wednesday, August 11th
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    • Erika Banuelos and Dr. John Kim the 2016 at STaRs Presentation
    • The NIH/NIDDK STEP UP grant awardee Justin Cho, from Williams College, finished his summer internship training in the Panchenko Lab. Justin successfully presented his project at the STEP UP NIH conference in a poster as well as oral presentation on August 1, 2016
    • Yazdan Shaik-Dasthagirisaheb, who the BU community knows as Basha, joined the Nikolajczyk Lab on August 15 as a Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology. Welcome Basha!
    • Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD presented her team’s research in a seminar entitled “Defining inflammation in human obesity and type 2 diabetes” at Vanderbilt University August 16
  • Publications: ACCEPTED:
    • Juan R. Mella, MD, MPH; Evan Chiswick, PhD; David Stepien, MD, PhD; Rituparna Moitra, PhD; Elizabeth R. Duffy, MA; Arthur Stucchi, PhD; Daniel Remick, MD; “Antagonism of the Neurokinin-1 Receptor Improves Survival in a Mouse Model of Sepsis by Decreasing Inflammation and Increasing Early Cardiovascular Function”. Accepted to Critical Care Medicine
    • Terry Hsieh, Max H. Vaickus, Thor D. Stein, Bethany L. Lussier, Jiyoun Kim, David M. Stepien, Elizabeth R. Duffy, Evan L. Chiswick, Daniel G. Remick; “The Role of Substance P in Pulmonary Clearance of Bacteria in Comparative Injury Models.” Accepted to American Journal of Pathology
  • Publications: PUBLISHED:
    • Zhao Z, Azad R, Yang JH, Siroky MB, Azadzoi KM. Progressive changes in detrusor function and micturition patterns with chronic bladder ischemia. Investig Clin Urol. 2016 Jul;57(4):249-59
    • Panchenko MV. “Structure, function and regulation of jade family PHD finger 1 (JADE1)”. 2016 Sep 1. PMID: 27155521
    • Huihong Xu and Daniel G Remick;“Pathology: A Satisfying Medical Profession.” Academic Pathology, Volume 3: 1-4
    • Olga Novikov, Zhongyan Wang , Elizabeth A. Stanford, Ashley J. Parks, Alejandra Ramirez- Cardenas, Esther Landesman, Israa Laklouk, Carmen Sarita-Reyes, Daniel Gusenleitner, Amy Li, Stefano Monti, Sara Manteiga, Kyongbum Lee and David H. Sherr; “An Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-mediated Amplification Loop that Enforces Cell Migration in ER-/PR-/Her2- Human Breast Cancer Cells”; Molecular Pharmacology Fast Forward. Published on August 29, 2016 as DOI: 10.1124/mol.116.105361