2005 Cobre Seminars
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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January
4	Benjamin Suratt	UVM	Mechanisms of Neutrophil Homeostasis
11	Sara Paveglio	UVM	A Role for IDO in Allergic Airways Disease
18	Mercedes Rincon	UVM	Grant Proposal:  Airway Epithelium, IL-6 and Asthma
25	Chad Steele	Univ. of Pittsburgh	Beta glucan receptors and innate host defense against pulmonary fungal pathogens
February
1	Gilman Allen	UVM	Recruitment and Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury in Mice:  Do Sighs Make a Difference?
8	Scott Wagers	UVM	Extravascular Fibrin and Fibrinolytic System Protein in Asthma
15	Jason Bates	UVM	Noninvasive assessment of lung function
22	Joseph Milic-Emili	McGill University	The weak link in the lung during low lung volume ventilation
March
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15	Sally Wenzel	Univ. Colorado-Nat'l Jewish	Asthma
22	Naomi Chesler	Univ. Wisconsin	How vascular stiffness, impedance and muscularization change in pulmonary hypertension
29	Yong-Ho Lee	UVM	Adipose tissue inflammation in the pathogenesis of obesity-associated asthma
April
5	Laurie Whittaker	UVM	The innate and adaptive immune response om cystic fibrosis
12	Benjamin Suratt	UVM	Reciprocal cytokine alterations in the marrow and lung drive late phase neutrophil accumulation in acute lung injury
19	Russell Tracy	UVM	Opportunities in multi-center datasets
26	Kenneth Adler	North Carolina State Univ.	Mechanism of airway mucous secretion
May
3	David Kaminsky	UVM	ATS practice
10	Anuradha Ray	University of Pittsburgh	Airway Inflammation versus Tolerance:  It's All in the Comminication
17	VLC members	UVM	ATS practice
24			No meeting-ATS
31	VLC members	UVM	ATS review
June
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14	Anne Dixon	UVM	Obesity and Asthma
21	Brian McElhinney	UVM	Dissertation Practice
28	Matthew Poynter	UVM	If mast cells are the answer, what is the question?
July
5			No-meeting-Holiday
12	Charles Irvin	UVM	What we knew about the lung at the birth of the ATS: State- of -the- Art 1905
19	Jason Bates	UVM	What is G anyway?
26	Rey Painettieri	University of Pennsylvania	Airway Smooth Muscle-more than just a contraction
August
2			Cancelled
9			No Meeting
16			No Meeting
23	Bridget Carney	UVM	The Ins and Outs of NIH Grants
30	Leesa Barone	Centacor	Levalbuterol: The Science of Isomers
September
6	Viranuj Sueblinvong	UVM	Development of airway epithelium from cord blood stem cells
13	Theodore Marcy	UVM	Vermont's Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program:  We know it works, but how do we evaluate it?
20	John Alcorn	UVM	JNK Modulation of TGF-Beta Fibrotic Signaling
27			No meeting
October
4	Laeeq Shamsuddin	UVM	Feedback inhibition of FGF signaling
11	Krishnendu Bhadra, M.D	UVM	High Fi02 and asthma:  oxygen worsens asthma
18	Jason Bates	UVM	UVAP
25	Kapil Patel	UVM
November
1			No meeting
3	E.F.M. Wouters, MD, PhD	Maastricht Univ-Netherlands	Quelling local and systemic inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
8			No meeting
15	Mike Young	UVM	Delays in medical care for patients suffering deterioration on the ward. Batter late than never?
22	Michael Sanderson	Umass	The regulation of airway and arteriole contraction by Ca2+ signaling:  Physiology revealed with confocal microscopy of mouse lung slices
28	Jason Aliotta, MD	Roger Williams Instit-RI	Stem Cell Plasticity and the Injured Lung
29	Stephanie Shore	Harvard School of Pub. Health	Obesity and Asthma
December
6	Alber van der Vliet	UVM	Oxidative & nitrosative events in the airway epithelium. Regulation of epithelial barrier function and wound repair
13	Jay Mizgerd	Harvard	Molecular regulation of innate immune responses in the lungs
20	Suzanna Trost	UVM	Bone Disease and Cystic Fibrosis (Grant Presentation)
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