2003 Cobre Seminars
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
January
7-Jan Gerry Davis MD UVM Lymphocytes in Silicosis:  Mechanisms of Chronic Inflammation & Fibrosis
14-Jan Mohammed Turki UVM Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
21-Jan Stephen Hall MD Oregon Health & Science Univ. Hard Films, Heavy breathing, and the Basis of Inflated Lungs
Molecular Medicine
28-Jan James Leavey UVM Interstitial Lung Disease
February
4-Feb Laurie Whittaker UVM Clinical Introduction to Cystic Fibrosis
11-Feb Bruce Stanton Dartmouth Cell Surface Expression of CFTR: Regulation by PDZ Protein Complexes...
18-Feb Richard Galbraith UVM What is the CGRC and what can the CGRC do for you?
20-Feb Mini-retreat
25-Feb Faculty  Discussion of March retreat
March
4-Mar Paul Enright MD University of Arizona Popcorn Workers Lung Disease:  Characterization and Mechanisms
6-Mar Jay Kolls MD Lousiana State University IL-17, Mucus Secretion and Airway Biology
11-Mar Michelle Cloutier MD University of Connecticut Airway Epithelium in Murine Asthma
18-Mar Matthew Poynter UVM Airway Epithelial NF-KB in Asthma
25-Mar Retreat
April
1-Apr Navdeep Singh UVM Pulmonary Fibrosis-UIP
8-Apr Mark Lui MD John Hopkins University Mechanisms of Allergic Inflammation CANCELED
15-Apr Ben Suratt UVM Neutrophil Behav. in Progressive Systemic Sclerosis & Idiopathic Pul.Fibrosis
22-Apr Gil Allen UVM Acute Lung Injury:Recruitment ant the Air Liquig Interface
29-Apr Matthew Poynter UVM ATS rehearsal-Reduced allergic airway inflammation in transgenic mouse expressing domin. neg. IkappaBalpha in aiway epithelium
May
6-May Peter Henson National Jewish Med & Rsrch  Recognition and response to apoptosis in develoopment, tissue remodeling and disease
13-May Ben Suratt UVM ATS rehearsal-Human pulmonary microchimerism following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
15-22  ATS Conference No Seminar
27-May ATS Review Discussion
June
3-Jun No Seminar No Seminar
10 Charles Irvin UVM VLC Mission Statement and Future Plans
18 Brent Winston University of Calgary The macrophage:  a common cell with diverse functions
24 Jason Bates UVM R01 Resubmission Specific Aims
July
1 Scott Wagers UVM Research Plans
8 Charles Irvin UVM Discussion of COBRE Progress Report Summary and Highlights
10 William Calhoun University of Pittsburgh Fellows Conference-Regulating inflammation genes in asthma
15 No Seminar No Seminar
22 Ted Marcy UVM Survey of Physicians Results
29 Anne Dixon UVM K23 Specific Aims
August
5 Laurie Whittaker UVM CF Grant Specific Aims/Study Design
12 David Kaminsky UVM R01 Specific Aims
19 No seminar
26 Albert van der Vliet UVM Cystic Fibrosis Data
September
2 Jason Bates UVM VILI R01
9 Vito Brusasco University of Genoa, Italy Factors modulating airway narrowing in vivo
16 Michael Coyle Vivometrics Noninvasive Measurements of respiration in pulmonary disease
23 Daniel Weiss UVM Re-population of Lung Epithelium with Bone Marrow Derived Cells:  Potential Therapeutic Approaches for Cystic Fibrosis and Asthma
30 Margaret Eppstein UVM Molecularly-targeted imaging with diffuse fluorescence tomography for biomedical diagnostics
October
7 Jason Bates UVM ANADAT - a general-purpose software package for the anlysis of physiological data
14 Michael Sullivan UVM Homegrown Image Analysis
21 Scott Wagers UVM Physionomics:  not all airway hyperresponsiveness is the same.
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November
4 Ralph Budd UVM T cell activation and asthma:  The FLIP side
11 Charles Irvin UVM First Look at LODO:  the bad news and the good news
18 Yvonne Janssen-Heininger UVM Nitric oxide chemistry in inflammatory disease
25 Deepa Lala UVM Retinoids and Emphysema
December
2 Scott Wagers UVM PAI-1 fibrin and asthma:  K23 experimantal data
9 Kalpesh Ganatra UVM Lung Transplantation
16 Charles Irvin / Jason Bates UVM NIH Roadmap / NCRR Strategic Plan
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