January 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items – January 2010

Announcements:

  • The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center is pleased to continue its strong record of accepted abstracts at the annual meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. The 2010 meeting will be held March 20 to 26, 2010 in Washington DC. Daniel Remick, M.D., has been asked to serve on the abstract review panel for the annual meeting. Here is the list of accepted publications:
Authors Title Presentation Type Date/Time
C Pang, L Watts, CA Kiriakos, MJ O’Brien and CD Andry A State-Mandated, Detailed Autopsy Consent Does Not Impact the Autopsy Rate at an Academic Medical Center Platform March 22nd,  2:45pm Monday
MHA Roehrl, JH Rho, and JY Wang Glycoproteomic Analysis of Human Lung Adenocarcinomas Using Lectin Glycoarrays and Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Differential Expression and Glycosylation Patterns of Vimentin and Fetuin A Isoforms Platform March 22, 2010, Section H 1 at 8:30 am on Tuesday Morning,
JT Hetzel, S Cerda, J Coukos, FA Farraye, CS Huang, K Omstead, S Hammond, S Yang and MJ O’Brien Prevalence of Serrated Polyp Subtypes and Predictors of Advanced Serrated Histology in a Large Colorectal Cancer Screening Cohor Platform March 22, Section E at 8:45 am on Tuesday Morning.
JT Hetzel, S Cerda, J Coukos, FA Farraye, CS Huang, K Omstead, S Hammond, S Yang and MJ O’Brien Prevalence of Serrated Polyp Subtypes and Predictors of Advanced Serrated Histology in a Large Colorectal Cancer Screening Cohor Platform March 22, Section E at 8:45 am on Tuesday Morning.
John Lee, Carl O’Hara Cyclin D1 Expression in Monoclonal Plasma Cells from AL Amyloidosis Bone Marrow Biopsies Poster March 23,  morning
Huihong Xu, Shi Yang, Opoku Adjapong and Michael O’Brien Is Proximal Microvesicular Serrated Polyp the Precursor of Sessile Serrated Adenoma of the Colon? Poster March 23, 2009, Tuesday Afternoon
C Pang, M Hernandez, J Tan, S Cerda and CD Sarita-Reyes. Importance of Placental Availability When Correlating Clinical and Pathologic Cause of Death in Second and Third Trimester Fetal Deaths. Poster March 24th, Wednesday Morning
  • Asthma Research from the Remick Lab is highlighted in Boston University’s 2009 Annual Report,   The information is listed as #18.
  • Michael Roehrl, MD, PhD received a Travel Award for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Laboratory 2010 to the MSACL 2010 Meeting in March 2010
  • Aditi Gurkar, PhD successfully defended her thesis  “ATM/ATR-mediated Phosphorylation of Rad18 is Required for Efficient S-phase Progression and Replication Fork Stability”on December 1, 2009

Presentations:

  • Michael Roehrl, MD, PhD is has been invited to give a Platform Presentation (“Glycoproteomics of Lung Cancer”), at the USCAP 2010 Meeting

Publications-PUBLISHED:

  • Robert Pistey, MD has a paper recently published in Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 118 (11):817-826. Title: “Anatomy-Based Algorithms for Detecting Oral Cancer Using Reflectance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy.” Authors: Sasha McGee, PhD; Vartan Mardirossian, MD; Alphi Elackattu, MD; Jelena Mirkovic, PhD; Robert Pistey, MD, MA; George Gallagher, DMD, DMSc; Sadru Kabani, DMD, MA; Chung-Chieh Yu, PhD; Zimmern Wang, MD; Kamran Badizadegan, MD; Gregory Grillone, MD; Michael S. Feld, PhD:
  • Mary Jo Murnane, PhD had an article published in the Dec 15 issue of the International Journal of Cancer:  “Active MMP-2 Effectively Identifies the Presence of Colorectal Cancer.” Authors: Mary Jo Murnane, Jinguo Cai, Sania Shuja, David McAneny,   Veronica Klepeis and John B. Willett
  • Martin Steffen, MD, PhD, has had three paper recently accepted for publication.  BRAVO!
  1. Nature Chemical Biology 2010 Jan;6 (1):4-5. doi:10.1038/nchembio.288. Title: “Biochemical networks: The evolution of gene annotation.” Authors: Simon Kasif1 & Martin Steffen2
  2. Eukaryot Cell. 2009 Nov 30. Title: “Evidence for mucin-like glycoproteins that tether sporozoites of Cryptosporidium parvum to the inner surface of the oocyst wall.” Authors: Chatterjee A, Banerjee S, Steffen M, O’Connor RM, Ward HD, Robbins PW, Samuelson J.
  3. Eukaryot Cell. 2009 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print] Title:  “Suggestive evidence for Darwinian selection against asparagine-linked glycans of  Plasmodium and Toxoplasma.” Authors:.Bushkin GG, Ratner DM, Cui J, Banerjee S, Duraisingh MT, Jennings CV, Dvorin JD, Gubbels MJ, Robertson SD, Steffen M, O’Keefe BR, Robbins PW, Samuelson J.

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