{"id":10013,"date":"2014-12-02T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2014-12-04T11:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:50:42","slug":"november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2014\/12\/02\/november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Announcements:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kate Murphy<\/span><\/b> has announced that the Blood Bank had its\u2019 4<sup>th<\/sup> inspection of the year \u2013 American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) on November 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> for an extremely thorough assessment, including nursing competency.\u00a0 We were successfully accredited for another 2 years!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zach Hunter, PhD Candidate<\/span><\/b> in the Steven Treon\u2019s Lab at Children\u2019s Hospital presented at the following conferences:\n<ul>\n<li>August 14<sup>th<\/sup> in London, UK. At the 8th International Workshop on Waldenstrom&#8217;s Macroglobulinemia. His oral presentation was entitled: &#8220;Genomic Landscape of WM&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>August 17<sup>th<\/sup> in London, UK, WMUK&#8217;s 5th International Doctor Patient Forum &#8220;Making Sense of Key Information about your WM: MYD88, CXCR4 and the Genetics of WM&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Caitlin S. Leibowitz Parello,<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PhD, Kurosawa Lab<\/span><\/b>, successfully defended her thesis \u201cInvestigating the Contributions of Leukocyte Responses and Kidney Cell Stress on Shiga- Toxin Pathogenesis\u201d on Friday, November 21<sup>st<\/sup><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_10040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10040\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/LeibowitzParelloDefense.11.21.14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10040\" alt=\"LeibowitzParelloDefense.11.21.14\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/LeibowitzParelloDefense.11.21.14-533x300.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/LeibowitzParelloDefense.11.21.14-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/LeibowitzParelloDefense.11.21.14.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlin&#8217;s Defense<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zach Hunter also received a grant in his own name; <\/span><\/b>&#8220;Identification of Germline and Somatic Variants Associated with Predisposition to WM&#8221; from the International Waldenstr\u00f6m&#8217;s Macroglobulinemia Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Barb Nikolajczyk, PhD<\/span><\/b> presented:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Immunometabolism, Lymphocytes and Obesity&#8221; at The Obesity Society annual meeting in Boston, MA on November 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Lymphocytes in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes&#8221; at the Evans Center\/Whitaker mini-symposium on Immune Cells and Metabolism on November 21<sup>st<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">David Kindelberger, MD<\/span><\/b> (along with colleague Eric Huang from the University of California, Davis) presented a workshop titled &#8220;2012 Updated ASCCP Consensus Management Guidelines for Women with Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests&#8221; at the 62nd Annual American Society of Cytopathology Scientific Meeting on November 17<sup>th<\/sup> in Dallas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel Remick, MD<\/span><\/b> was given a water pitcher to acknowledge his serving on the Society for Leukocyte Biology Council, and serving as the Program Chair for the 2014 Annual Leukocyte Biology Meeting. The 2014 meeting in Salt Lake City was a joint meeting between Leukocyte Biology and the International Endotoxin and Innate Immune Society.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_10042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10042\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/Remick-Watervase-jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10042\" alt=\"Remick Watervase jpg\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/Remick-Watervase-jpg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/Remick-Watervase-jpg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2014\/12\/Remick-Watervase-jpg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Remick with watervase<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><b><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa Belghasem, PhD Candidate, Henderson Lab:<\/span><\/b><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Presented a poster entitled \u201cHeterozygous Actn4 Mutant Mice are Susceptible to Glomerulopathy when Subjected to Hemodynamic Stress\u201d at American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2014 in Philadelphia, PA, November 11-16, 2014<\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mostafa <\/span><\/b>was also selected to participate in the ASN 2014 Kidney STARS program and received a Travel Award from the ASN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications ACCEPTED<\/span>:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ying Tan, Amanda A. Watkins, Benjamin B. Freeman, John A. Meyers, Ian R.Rifkin\u00a0and <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Adam Lerner<\/span><\/b>; &#8220;Type 4 cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitors block intracellular Toll-like receptor signaling in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and normal hematopoietic cells&#8221;. <i>Journal of Immunology<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Anastasia Gomez, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nancy S. Miller<\/span><\/b>, and Irina Smolina. Visual detection of bacterial pathogens via PNA-based padlock probe assembly and isothermal amplification of DNAzymes. <i>Analytical Chemistry,<\/i><i> Publication Date (Web): 21 Nov 2014<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Publications: PUBLISHED<\/span>:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Castillo JJ, Olszewski AJ, Cronin AM, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hunter ZR<\/span><\/b>, Treon SP. Survival trends in Waldenstr\u00f6m macroglobulinemia: an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database. <i>Blood. 2014 Jun 19;123(25):3999\u20134000. PMID: 24948623<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Cao Y, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hunter ZR<\/span><\/b>, Liu X, Xu L, Yang G, Chen J, Patterson CJ, Tsakmaklis N, Kanan S, Rodig S, Castillo JJ, Treon SP. The WHIM-like CXCR4(S338X) somatic mutation activates AKT and ERK, and promotes resistance to ibrutinib and other agents used in the treatment of Waldenstrom\u2019s Macroglobulinemia. <i>Leukemia. 2014 Jun 10; PMID: 24912431<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Ansar H, Mirzaei K, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Malek A<\/span><\/b>, Najmafshar A, Hossein-nezhad A. Possible resting metabolic rate modification by the circulating RBP4 in obese subjects. <i>Diab Met Syndr: Clin Res Rev (Oct, 2014)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Treon SP, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hunter ZR<\/span><\/b>, Castillo JJ, Merlini G. Waldenstr\u00f6m Macroglobulinemia. <i>Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2014 Oct;28 (5):945\u2013970. PMID: 25212891<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Cao Y, <b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hunter ZR<\/span><\/b>, Liu X, Xu L, Yang G, Chen J, Tsakmaklis N, Kanan S, Castillo JJ, Treon SP. CXCR4 WHIM-like frameshift and nonsense mutations promote ibrutinib resistance but do not supplant MYD88(L265P) -directed survival signalling in Waldenstr\u00f6m macroglobulinaemia cells. <i>Br J Haematol. 2014 Nov 5;\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sikora JL<\/span><\/b>,\u00a0Logue MW,\u00a0Chan GG,\u00a0Spencer BH,\u00a0Prokaeva TB,\u00a0Baldwin CT,\u00a0Seldin DC,\u00a0<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Connors LH<\/span><\/b> (2014) Genetic variation of the transthyretin gene in wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRwt). <i>Human Genet. 2014 (e-Pub ahead of print) PMID: 25367359<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items\u00a0 Announcements: Kate Murphy has announced that the Blood Bank had its\u2019 4th inspection of the year \u2013 American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) on November 19th and 20th for an extremely thorough assessment, including nursing competency.\u00a0 We were successfully accredited for another 2 years! 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