May 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • Correction with great apologies to Dr. Lija Joseph for not properly identifying her as Hematology Lab Section Director in an April’s New News article (reprinted appropriately below).  KUDOS to Dr. Joseph!!~!!! Because of Dr. Lija Joseph’s Hematology Lab’s excellent performance in Hematology Cell Identification, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has invited the Hematology Section of Laboratory Medicine to become a referee for the 2010 Survey year. Referees are selected participants with a record of perfect performance on graded cell identification challenges from the preceding years. These referees serve as “experts” who perform a valuable service to evaluate the images used in the CAP Surveys Program. As a participant in the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Hematology (FH Series) Survey, you may be aware of our referee laboratories that provide data for cell identification. With CLIA-88 regulations governing consensus for qualitative proficiency testing, the role of referees is particularly important. Again, Congratulations to Dr. Joseph and her team!
  • Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD will be chairing the block symposium on “Lymphocyte/APC migration” at the 97th Annual Meeting of The American Association of Immunologists, May 9th in Baltimore, MD!!
  • Jillian Richmond, PhD Candidate has been awarded the National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellowship offered through the Boston University Project STAMP/Boston Urban Fellows Program. Jillian will receive financial support for the 2010-2011 academic year, and she will teach in a Boston Public High School part-time. This includes assisting high school teachers with enhancing their curricula and assisting with labs and science fairs. The program website is here:  Bravo Jillian!
  • The Kurosawa Lab enthusiastically welcomes Diann Henthorn.  Diann will assist with the nonhuman primate studies at the Oklahoma site.  If you’re ever in Oklahoma, please stop by to say “hey” to Diann.   Her email is:  diannh@bu.edu. And, yes, it is Diann.  Not Dianne, Diane or Diana.
  • A new postdoc Han-Pil Choi joins the Steffen Lab on May 1. Han-Pil has been working at Yale Medical School with Dr. John MacMicking, helping to identifying downstream IFN pathways that are crucial for controlling infection of macrophages and dendritic cells by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of TB.
  • Congratulations  to Bryan Belikoff, MD/PhD Candidate successfully Defended his thesis “Regulation of the Immunosuppressive Hypoxia-A2 Adenosinergic Pathway: A Potential Therapeutic Target for the Treatment of Bacterial Sepsis” on April 19th
  • Congratulations to Catherine Cory for completing her requirements and thesis “The Antioxidant Taurine Reduces Pulmonary Inflammation And Airway Hyperresponsiveness In a Mouse Model Of Asthma” to receive her MA in Pathology

Presentations:

  • Jillian Richmond, PhD candidate will be presenting 2 posters at the American Association of Immunologists 97th Meeting in Baltimore, MD May 7-11,
  • Richmond, J, J Lee, D Green, H Kornfeld, W Cruikshank. “Mannose lipoarabinomannan from Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibits T cell migration to sphingosine-1-phosphate and promotes trapping of T cells in lung draining lymph nodes”
  • Richmond, J, E Schuller, J Lee, D Remick, H Kornfeld, W Cruikshank. “Mannose lipoarabinomannan from Mycobacterium tuberculosis promotes production of soluble TNF Receptors I & II”

Publications-PUBLISHED:

Publications-ACCEPTED:

  • Resident Dehua Wang’s MD manuscript entitled “Prevalence of RhD Variants, Confirmed by Molecular Genotyping, in a Multi-ethnic Prenatal Population” by Wang D, Lane C, Quillen K has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology
  • Resident Marier Hernandez-Perez MD has a manuscript accepted for publication in The International Journal of Dermatology. “CUTANEOUS LEPIDOPTERISM: DERMATITIS FROM CONTACT WITH MOTHS OF Hylesia metabus (Cramer 1775) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae), THE  CAUSATIVE AGENT OF CARIPITO ITCH” by Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi, Alexandra M. Pérez-Alvarez, Ulf Lundberg, Lizette Fornés, Oscar Reyes-Jaimes, Marier Hernández-Pérez and Eric Hossler.
  • Former graduate student Devin Horton, has a paper accepted in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, “Delayed Addition of Glucocorticoids Selectively Suppresses Cytokine Production in Stimulated Human Whole Blood,” Devin L. Horton and Daniel G. Remick.

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