{"id":1280,"date":"2009-09-03T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2009-09-03T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:39:01","slug":"september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2009\/09\/03\/september-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items<\/h2>\n<h3>Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kazem Azadzoi, M.D<\/strong>. has received funding from American Medical System for a term ending March 2011 to study<strong> <\/strong>\u201cThe Effects of Accessa Stimulation on Bladder Overactivity\u201d in an Experimental Model of Pelvic Ischemia<\/li>\n<li>The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society President&#8217;s Award for Best Overall Trainee\/Resident Presentation 2nd Place was awarded to <strong>Bryan Belikoff, MD\/PhD<\/strong> <strong>candidate<\/strong> for his presentation entitled &#8220;Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Prevents Lung Inflammation in the Absence of Adenosine A2A Receptor Signaling&#8221; at this year&#8217;s international UHMS Scientific Meeting Las Vegas, NV<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marc Lenburg, PhD<\/strong> presented a talk at the Genes and the Environment Initiative meeting in Raleigh-Durham, NC entitled \u201cNon-invasive Gene Expression Biomarkers of Airway Response to Tobacco Exposure\u201d on August 3rd<\/li>\n<li>News from Abroad: <strong>Rocco Richards, MA<\/strong>, graduate of our Master\u2019s in Pathology program has arrived safely at Medical School in Grenada \u2013 he writes <em>\u201cJust went through my first week of classes &#8211; it&#8217;s been a hectic week. The island is gorgeous. Everywhere I look, I see blue waters or beautiful mountains. \u2026The campus is real nice, the facilities and lecture halls are great. BU classes really did prepare me for this semester. Many students here haven&#8217;t done or seen nearly half of what I did while at BU.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Thomou, PhD<\/strong> successfully defended his thesis \u201cHomeobox Gene Expression Profiles Demarcate Regional Identity of Human Fat Depots&#8221; on August 4th<\/li>\n<li>Welcome to NEW FACES:\n<ul>\n<li>Danielle Day \u2013 Kurosawa Lab<\/li>\n<li>INCOMING STUDENTS\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PhD Students<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip Bondzie<\/li>\n<li>Evan Chiswick<\/li>\n<li>Clarissa Koch<\/li>\n<li>John \u201cJed\u201d Mahoney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Masters Students<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Nik Bajaj<\/li>\n<li>Mostafa Belghasem<\/li>\n<li>Yi \u201cBessie\u201d Liu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From Jo-Anne Walsh in Dean Antman\u2019s Office: \u201cCongratulations to all of you in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine for being the 1st whole department to complete the Faculty Evaluation Confirmations. Just gave Dean Antman the news!!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presentations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Chui, MD<\/strong> was invited to present at McMaster University, Regional Hematology Round, Hamilton, ON, Canada; June 26, 2009, \u201cBCL11A and fetal hemoglobin\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Chui, MD<\/strong> was also invited to present at Congreso Iberoamericano de Drepanocitosis y Talassemia, Colegio de Medicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica; July 23, 24, 2009; \u201cRegulation of Fetal Hemoglobin Synthesis: Recent Advances\u201d and \u201cSickle Cell Disease \u2013 Interaction with Other Mutations\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications- PUBLISHED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>American Journal of Hematology published: \u201cSickle cell disease caused by heterozygosity for Hb S and novel LCR deletion: Report of two patients\u201d by <strong>Sara C. Koenig<\/strong>,1 Esmira Becirevic,1 Miriam S.C. Hellberg,1 Michael Y. Li,1 Jason C.C. So,3 Jane S. Hankins,4 Russell E. Ware,4 Lillian McMahon,2 Martin H. Steinberg,2 Hong-Yuan Luo,1,2 and David H.K. Chui1,2*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications- ACCEPTED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zack Hunter, MA<\/strong> <strong>candidate<\/strong> has a first author paper accepted for publication by Hematologica! The paper is entitled &#8220;IgA and IgG hypogammaglobulinemia in Waldenstr\u00f6m?s macroglobulinemia\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Article title by <strong>John Cho, MD:<\/strong> \u201cUtility of Hematologic and Volume, Conductivity, and Scatter (VCS) Parameters from Umbilical Cord Blood in Predicting Chorioamnionitis\u201d has been accepted by International Journal of Laboratory Hematology. The coauthors are: Fernando Chaves MD, Thomas Ahern MPH, and <strong>Karen Quillen MD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Davis, PhD<\/strong> has a paper accepted by a PLoS Biology. \u201cCapzb2 Interacts with \u00df-tubulin to Regulate Growth Cone Morphology and Neurite Outgrowth.\u201d Authors: David A. Davis1, Meredith H. Wilson1, Jodel Giraud2, Zhigang Xie3, Huang-Chun Tseng2, Cheryl England4, Haya Hersckovitz4, Li-Huei Tsai2 and Ivana Delalle1*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: Kazem Azadzoi, M.D. has received funding from American Medical System for a term ending March 2011 to study \u201cThe Effects of Accessa Stimulation on Bladder Overactivity\u201d in an Experimental Model of Pelvic Ischemia The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society President&#8217;s Award for Best Overall Trainee\/Resident Presentation 2nd Place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}