{"id":1736,"date":"2010-09-01T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:03:25","slug":"september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2010\/09\/01\/september-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items<\/h2>\n<h3>Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tiffany Mellot, PhD<\/strong> one of our new Research Assistant Professors was awarded a 2010 New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG) from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association!<\/li>\n<li><strong>F<\/strong><strong>rom the Dean\u2019s August Newsletter: Faculty Awards Congratulations<\/strong> to the following faculty who are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to medical care, research, and education: <strong>Daniel Remick,<\/strong> 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<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin Steffen, PhD<\/strong> is co-organizer of: COMBREX Workshop for Computational and Experimental Determination of Protein Function&#8221; as part of the 18th Annual International Meeting on Microbial Genomics, to be held Wednesday Sept. 15 at Lake Arrowhead CA. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mimg.ucla.edu\/arrowhead2010\/program.html\">link<\/a>&gt;<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Sherr PhD<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Summer Student Presentations 2010<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"height: 680px;\" border=\"0\" width=\"691\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1737 aligncenter\" title=\"September-News-I\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-I-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"September-News-I\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-I-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-I.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Shannon McCarthy (Tiffany Mellot&#8217;s student),<br \/>\nRebecca Dale\u00a0 (Brygida Berse&#8217;s student),<br \/>\nGreta Gadbois (Kurosawa student),<br \/>\nGabe Beaudoin (Remick student).<br \/>\nNot pictured, Michael Lee in Joel Henderson&#8217;s lab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1738 aligncenter\" title=\"September-News-2\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"September-News-2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/files\/2010\/09\/September-News-2.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Mychelle Wynters and Valencia Potter;<br \/>\nXavier University Students working inthe Remick Lab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Welcome to NEW FACES:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hillary Perkins<\/strong> \u2013 Sharon Lab<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doug Markham<\/strong> \u2013 Nikolajczyk Lab; Doug will work on the role the immune system plays in type 2 diabetes and is coming to us from the UK<\/li>\n<li> INCOMING PhD STUDENTS\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Parul Agnihotri<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Zack Hunter <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Caitlin Leibowitz <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Stauffer <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin Steinbuck<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Stepien, MD\/PhD <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presentations:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ivana Delalle, MD, PhD<\/strong> is presenting at the International Neuropathology Meeting in Europe.\u00a0 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\u2019s disease.\u00a0 XVIIth International Congress of Neuropathology, September 2010, Salzburg, Austria \u2013<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jillian Richmond, PhD Candidate<\/strong> in the Cruikshank Lab was selected to attend the Fifth Annual NIH National Graduate Student Research Festival this October to present my poster &#8220;Mannose lipoarabinomannan from Mycobacterium tuberculosis promotes production of soluble TNF Receptors I &amp; II&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications- PUBLISHED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Azadzoi KM<\/strong> and Siroky MB: Neurologic factors in female sexual function and dysfunction. KJ Urology\u00a0 51(7): 443-9, July 2010<\/li>\n<li>Apetoh, L., F. J. Quintana, C. Pot, N. Joller, S. Xiao, D. Kumar, E. J. Burns,<strong> D. H. Sherr<\/strong>, 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<\/li>\n<li>Schlezinger, J. J., P. L. Bernard, A. Haas, P. Grandjean, P. Weihe, and<strong> D. H. Sherr<\/strong>. 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<\/li>\n<li>Allan, L. L., and <strong>D. H. Sherr<\/strong>. 2010. Disruption of human plasma cell differentiation by an environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon: a mechanistic immunotoxicological study. \/Environ Health \/9:15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications-ACCEPTED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lou Vaickus, MD\/PhD<\/strong> from the Remick Lab, who recently Defended, had\u00a0 his manuscript entitled &#8220;Inbred and outbred mice have equivalent variability in a cockroach allergen induced model of asthma&#8221; accepted for publication in Comparative Medicine<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miller N.S<\/strong>., C. Nader, J. Barinaga, J. Zarin. Unsuspected infection with Listeria monocytogenes infection in a prosthetic knee joint.\u00a0 Clinical Microbiology Newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Smolina, I.V., <strong>N.S. Miller<\/strong>, and M.D. Frank-Kamenetskii.\u00a0 PNA-based microbial pathogen identification and resistance marker detection: an accurate, isothermal rapid assay based on genome-specific features. Artificial DNA: PNA &amp; XNA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Jo Murnane<\/strong>,\u00a0 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\u00a0 Journal of Human Pathology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; 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&#8217;s Association! 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