Sept. 22 BUMC Provost Workshop Inflammation Symposium

Medical Campus students, faculty and staff are invited to two-hour Provost Workshop symposium to explore the complex interactions that occur during an inflammatory response. Symposium is hosted by Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD and Dan Remick, MD.

  •  BUMC Provost Workshop Inflammation Symposium: Bipartisan Support by PAMPS and DAMPS
  • Tuesday, Sept. 22
  • 3-5 p.m., Hiebert Lounge, BUSM Instructional Building

Inflammation Resulting from Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns (PAMPS)

Moderator/Provocateur: Daniel Remick, MD, Chair and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Time Speaker Title of talk
3-3:05 p.m. Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD,  Department of Microbiology & Pathology and Lab Medicine Introduction
3:05-3:15 Lee Quinton, PhD, Department of Medicine Damage Control: Regulating Acute Pulmonary Inflammation during Pneumonia
3:15- 3:25 Alan Walkey, MD, MScDepartment of Medicine PAMPS are prologue, but DAMPS hold the plot: a clinico-epidemiological perspective of sepsis
3:25-3:35 Robin Ingalls, MD, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology Chlamydia, innate immunity, and the role of host tolerance in disease pathogenesis
3:35- 3:45 Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 160 Easy Steps To Avoid Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome from toxigenic E.coli
3:45-4 Panel Exploration of potential new collaborations and questions from the floor

 

Inflammation Resulting from Danger-Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPS)

Moderator/Provocateur Lee Wetzler, MD, Professor of Medicine, PI of the Inflammation Training Grant

Time Speaker Title of talk
4-4:10 Maria Trojanowska, PhD, Department of Medicine Fresh insights into the role of herpesviruses (CMV and EBV) in the pathogenesis of scleroderma
4:10-4:20 Joel Henderson, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Molecular response patterns in hypertension-associated renal glomerular injury
4:20-4:30 Kei Yasuda, PhD, Department of Medicine Interferon regulatory factor-5 contributes to the disease pathogenesis in systemic lupus erythematosus: what is the mechanism?
4:30-4:40 Valentina Perissi, PhD, Department of Biochemistry Braking on ubiquitination to prevent aberrant activation of TLR signaling
4:40-5 Panel Exploration of potential new collaborations and questions from the floor