October 20, 2011
Present: Emelia Benjamin, Peter Cahn (recorder), Isabel Dominguez, Frank Farraye, Caroline Genco, Angela Jackson, Jane Liebschutz (chair)
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| External awards subcommittee | Suggested senior faculty who could serve on a committee to nominate outstanding faculty for external recognition. Aim for 6-8 people to meet quarterly and create a fair, transparent nomination process.
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| Follow-up on women’s dinner | Walking groups twice a month at different times and days of the week would help communication, health, and morale.
We would invite “anchors,” colleagues sure to attend and organize the route. Keep in informal. Possible anchors:
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Boosting morale next steps
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The FDDC can host a social event one Friday a month from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Wilkins. Food can be themed.
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Faculty Publications
- Roles of STAT3 in protein secretion pathways during the acute-phase response.
- Increased expression of endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
- Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Is Up-Regulated in the Skin of Patients With Systemic Sclerosis and Induces Profibrotic Genes and Intracellular Signaling That Overlap With Those Induced by Interleukin-13 and Transforming Growth Factor β.
- Using family-based imputation in genome-wide association studies with large complex pedigrees: the Framingham Heart Study.
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