Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – October 2016

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – October 2016

  • Announcements:
    • Nancy S. Miller, MD led a discussion and tour of the BMC Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for participants of the International Infectious Disease Symposium, October 13, The tour was part of a 3-day BUSM CME conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases that hosted pulmonologists and infectious diseases physicians visiting from the Middle East.
    • Miller, MD was the ASM Distinguished Lecturer at the Fall Meeting of the Western New York branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Buffalo, NY, October 25, 2016. Her topic was diagnostic clinical mycology: “Fungal Fest: Challenges, conundrums, and lessons learned.”
    • Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD presented her team’s work entitled “Identity and Mechanisms of Inflammation in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC, on October 24, 2016
    • Daniel Remick, MD, organized a workshop for the 8th International Congress of the International Federation of Shock Societies held October 3 – 5 in Tokyo, Japan. The workshop was titled: Immunopathology of Traumatic Brain Injury.
    • Remick also gave a presentation: “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury but not Tail Trauma Augments Pulmonary Clearance of Substance P”
    • Daniel Remick, MD, was also invited to give a presentation at the 8th International Congress of the International Federation of Shock Societies in Tokyo, Japan titled: “Understanding the Heterogeneity of the Host Response to Infection May Direct Therapy”
    • Mostafa Belghasem, PhD presented two posters at BU’s Annual Evans Days 2016 Meeting, October 13 & 14, 2016:
      • “Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor signaling is an in vivo targetable antithrombotic pathway and it correlates with thrombosis in humans” Mostafa Belghasem, Moshe Shashar, Jamaica Siwak, Faisal Alousi, Joel Henderson, Anqi Zhang, Jean Francis, Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Vipul Chitalia.
      • “CHIP: A Novel Target For Thrombosis” Moshe Shashar, Mostafa Belghasem, Shinobu Matsuura, Faisal Alousi, Keshab Raji, Jean Francis, Vijaya Kolachalama, Joel Henderson, Mercedes Balcells, Kumaran Kolandaivelu, Katya Ravid, Vipul Chitalia
    • Keith Keller, Masters Student in the Henderson Lab has been selected to participate in Kidney STARS 2016 program organized by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN). Keith also received a travel grant from ASN to attend Kidney Week 2016
    • The Kurosawa Lab welcomes Daniel Buhl a master’s student coming to their lab from the University of Heidelberg in Germany from November – February
    • Daniel Remick, MD, just completed a four term of service as a Section Editor for the Journal of Immunology
  • Publications: ACCEPTED:
    • Xueping Fan, Hongying Yang, Sudhir Kumar, Kathleen Tumelty, Anna Pisarek-Horowitz, Hila Milo Rasouly, Richa Sharma, Stefanie Chan, Edyta Tyminski, Michael Shamashkin, Mostafa Belghasem, Joel Henderson, Anthony Coyle, David J. Salant, Stephen Berasi, Weining Lu. “SLIT2-ROBO2 signaling pathway inhibits non-muscle myosin IIA activity and destabilizes kidney podocyte adhesion.” Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight; Accepted Oct 2016