ITP News

September/October 2012

  • Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa and Shinichira Kurosawa’s lab published two papers:

Ghosh CC, Mukherjee A, David S, Stearns-Kurosawa D, Kurosawa S, Parikh SM.  Impaired function of the Tie-2 receptor contributes to vascular leakage and lethality in anthrax. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA,109(25):10024-92012, 2012 (PMID: 22665799)

Sursal T*, Stearns-Kurosawa DJ*, Itagaki K, Oh S-Y, Sun S, Kurosawa S, Hauser CJ. Plasma Bacterial and Mitochondrial DNA Distinguish Bacterial Sepsis from Sterile SIRS and Quantify Inflammatory Tissue Injury in Nonhuman Primates. Shock, in press, 2012.  *Equal first authors.

  • Erin Hodges and John Connor published an article in Methods:

Hodges EN, Connor JH. Translational Control by negative-strand RNA viruses: Methods for the study of a crucial virus/host interaction. Methods. 2012 Sep 23. Pii: S1046-2023.

The link the article is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23009810

  • Robin Ingalls was awarded a new R01 from NIAID:

Title: Role of Chlamydia Species in Preterm Birth and Placental Dysfunction

  • Barb Nikolajczyk was awarded a new grant from the NIH/NDDK:

Title: The Role of Lymphocytes in Diet-Induced Metabolic Disease

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