{"id":2664,"date":"2012-11-15T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2012-11-15T18:47:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T23:47:46","slug":"october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/2012\/11\/15\/october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items<\/h2>\n<h3>Announcements:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cancer Human Biobank Project at the NCI has funded a two year contract with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at BMC worth up to $500,000-.\u00a0 The collection of biospecimens in a pre-analytic variables study will bring the biospecimen archive research core (BARC) to the next level in state-of-the-art biospecimen collection, preservation and analysis.\u00a0 This award is a culmination of departmental and hospital-wide investment in preparation for this project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Barbara Nikolajczyk, PhD <\/strong>has been invited to present her team&#8217;s work on &#8220;Immunometabolism&#8221; at\n<ul>\n<li>The Miami 2013 Winter Symposium: The Molecular Basis of Metabolism and Nutrition in February, 2013 as well as the following presentations:<\/li>\n<li>American Association of Immunologists, Guest Symposium speaker, \u201cB lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in obesity and glucose intolerance\u201d, Honolulu Hawaii, 2013<\/li>\n<li>University of Miami, Department of Immunology, Miami Florida, \u201cHuman B lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in type 2 diabetes\u201d, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Los Angeles, CA, \u201cHuman B lymphocytes are master regulators of a pro-inflammatory T cell balance in type 2 diabetes,\u201d 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2nd Year Resident <strong>Manisha Mehta\u2019s<\/strong> poster has been accepted by the AAOOP (American Association of Ophthalmic Oncologists and Pathologists) for their 2012 Annual meeting to be held in Chicago on Nov 9, 2012. \u201cImmunological profile of 2 cases of conjunctival SCC from Africa\u201d; <strong>Manisha Mehta<\/strong>, Stephen Christiansen, Jose Caro,<strong> Nora Laver<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to<strong> Dr. Huihong Xu<\/strong> as the Shattuck Hospital\u2019s New Chief of Pathology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason Sutin, PhD<\/strong> student presented the poster &#8220;Simultaneous Optical and Electrical Measurement of Neurovascular Coupling in Awake Rats&#8221; at Neuroscience 2012 on October 17th in New Orleans<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Sandra Cerda<\/strong> received a Poster Citation for her poster presented October 21st at the ACG (American College of Gastroenterology) 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada; \u201cSignificance of granulomatous inflammation found on endoscopic biopsies or surgical resections on the severity and prognosis of Crohn&#8217;s Disease.\u201d Kanneganti M, Dehghani B, Steinberg J, Cerda S, Rybin D, Weinberg J, Farraye FA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PhD Student Zach Hunter\u2019s<\/strong> abstract was selected for an oral presentation at the BU Genomic Science Institute symposium this past Monday (10\/22). \u201cCopy Number and Small Variant Analysis from Whole Genome Sequencing of 30 Patients with Waldenstrom\u2019s Macroglobulinemia\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/initiatives\/research-symposium\/\"> Link to the BU GSI website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"704\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2012\/11\/Pumpkin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2012\/11\/Pumpkin2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin2\" title=\"Pumpkin2\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2666 alignnone\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Bravo, Spooktacular to Lab Medicine for being one of the tip three  Pumpkin Decorating Contest winners with \u201cThe Mad Scientist\u201d pumpkin!<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2012\/11\/Pumpkin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/busm-pathology\/files\/2012\/11\/Pumpkin1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin1\" title=\"Pumpkin1\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2665 alignright\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Publications: PUBLISHED:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Snyder-Cappione, JE and <strong>Nikolajczyk, BS<\/strong>. When Diet and Exercise Aren&#8217;t Enough, Think Immunomodulation. 2012. Molecular Aspects of Medicine. (In Press).<\/li>\n<li>Kanneganti M, Dehghani B, Steinberg J,<strong> Cerda S<\/strong>, Rybin D, Weinberg J, Farraye FA. Significance of granulomatous inflammation found on endoscopic biopsies or surgical resections on the severity and prognosis of Crohn&#8217;s Disease.\u00a0 American\u00a0 Journal of Gastroenterology 2012;107:S633<\/li>\n<li>Treon, S. P., Tripsas, C., Hanzis, C., Ioakimidis, L., Patterson, C. J., Manning, R. J., Sheehy, P., Turnbull B, <strong>Hunter ZR<\/strong>. Familial Disease Predisposition Impacts Treatment Outcome in Patients With Waldenstr\u00f6m Macroglobulinemia. Clinical lymphoma, myeloma &amp; leukemia. doi:10.1016\/j.clml.2012.08.006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathology &amp; Laboratory Medicine News Items Announcements: The Cancer Human Biobank Project at the NCI has funded a two year contract with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at BMC worth up to $500,000-.\u00a0 The collection of biospecimens in a pre-analytic variables study will bring the biospecimen archive research core (BARC) to the next [&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\/2664"}],"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=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-pathology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}