September 2010

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine News Items

Announcements:

  • Tiffany Mellot, PhD one of our new Research Assistant Professors was awarded a 2010 New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG) from the Alzheimer’s Association!
  • From the Dean’s August Newsletter: Faculty Awards Congratulations to the following faculty who are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to medical care, research, and education: Daniel Remick, Chair of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, was elected to the council of the Association of Pathology Chairs. Dr. Remick will chair the Advocacy Committee with responsibility for providing input about the role of pathology in healthcare reform
  • Martin Steffen, PhD is co-organizer of: COMBREX Workshop for Computational and Experimental Determination of Protein Function” as part of the 18th Annual International Meeting on Microbial Genomics, to be held Wednesday Sept. 15 at Lake Arrowhead CA. <link>
  • David Sherr PhD received a $49,967 Ignition Award (Healthcare) to develop drugs that modulate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). These drugs are relevant to the treatment of several cancers, inflammation, and autoimmunity.
  • Summer Student Presentations 2010
September-News-I Shannon McCarthy (Tiffany Mellot’s student),
Rebecca Dale  (Brygida Berse’s student),
Greta Gadbois (Kurosawa student),
Gabe Beaudoin (Remick student).
Not pictured, Michael Lee in Joel Henderson’s lab
September-News-2 Mychelle Wynters and Valencia Potter;
Xavier University Students working inthe Remick Lab
  • Welcome to NEW FACES:
    • Hillary Perkins – Sharon Lab
    • Doug Markham – Nikolajczyk Lab; Doug will work on the role the immune system plays in type 2 diabetes and is coming to us from the UK
    • INCOMING PhD STUDENTS
      • Parul Agnihotri
      • Zack Hunter
      • Caitlin Leibowitz
      • Nicole Stauffer
      • Martin Steinbuck
      • David Stepien, MD/PhD

Presentations:

  • Ivana Delalle, MD, PhD is presenting at the International Neuropathology Meeting in Europe.  Patricia F. Kao, David A. Davis, Charles Vanderburg, and Ivana Delalle: Capzb2 is specifically increased in the hippocampi of patients diagnosed with mid-stage non-familial Alzheimer’s disease.  XVIIth International Congress of Neuropathology, September 2010, Salzburg, Austria –
  • Jillian Richmond, PhD Candidate in the Cruikshank Lab was selected to attend the Fifth Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival this October to present my poster “Mannose lipoarabinomannan from Mycobacterium tuberculosis promotes production of soluble TNF Receptors I & II”

Publications- PUBLISHED:

  • Azadzoi KM and Siroky MB: Neurologic factors in female sexual function and dysfunction. KJ Urology  51(7): 443-9, July 2010
  • Apetoh, L., F. J. Quintana, C. Pot, N. Joller, S. Xiao, D. Kumar, E. J. Burns, D. H. Sherr, H. L. Weiner, and V. K. Kuchroo. 2010. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacts with c-Maf to promote the differentiation of type 1 regulatory T cells induced by IL-27. /Nat Immunol /11:854-861
  • Schlezinger, J. J., P. L. Bernard, A. Haas, P. Grandjean, P. Weihe, and D. H. Sherr. 2010. Direct assessment of cumulative aryl hydrocarbon receptor agonist activity in sera from experimentally exposed mice and environmentally exposed humans. /Environmental health perspectives /118:693-698
  • Allan, L. L., and D. H. Sherr. 2010. Disruption of human plasma cell differentiation by an environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon: a mechanistic immunotoxicological study. /Environ Health /9:15.

Publications-ACCEPTED:

  • Lou Vaickus, MD/PhD from the Remick Lab, who recently Defended, had  his manuscript entitled “Inbred and outbred mice have equivalent variability in a cockroach allergen induced model of asthma” accepted for publication in Comparative Medicine
  • Miller N.S., C. Nader, J. Barinaga, J. Zarin. Unsuspected infection with Listeria monocytogenes infection in a prosthetic knee joint.  Clinical Microbiology Newsletter
  • Smolina, I.V., N.S. Miller, and M.D. Frank-Kamenetskii.  PNA-based microbial pathogen identification and resistance marker detection: an accurate, isothermal rapid assay based on genome-specific features. Artificial DNA: PNA & XNA
  • Mary Jo Murnane,  Jinguo Cai, Sania Shuja, David B McAneny and John B Willett. Active MMP-2 Activity Discriminates Colonic Mucosa, Adenomas with and without High Grade Dysplasia and Cancers  Journal of Human Pathology

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