2006 Cobre Seminars
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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January
3			No Meeting
10	David Kaminsky	UVM	Treating asthma with DPI vs. HFA inhaled steriods:  A proposal for the ALA-ACRC
17	Jason Bates	UVM	Synergistic determinants of airways hyperresponsiveness
24	Roberto Loi	UVM	Development of airway epithelium in vivo from adult marrow-derived cells
31	Anne Dixon	UVM	Obesity and asthma
February
7			PI meeting
10	James Lee	Mayo Clinic	Granulocyte recruitment is regulated by Gai2-dependent signaling in the vascular endothelium
14	David Kaminsky	UVM	DLCO vs DLCO/VA:  that is the question
21	Gilman Allen	UVM	Role of Alvelar Fibrin in Acute Lung Injury
28	Steven Shapiro	Harvard	Emerging therapy for COPD:  Multidisciplinary approach
March
7	Matt Poynter	UVM	You, Me, and NKT:  Why I think you should be interested in a cell you may never have heard of
14			No meeting
21	Hans Haverkamp	UVM	Thickening of the airway epithelium in asthma: maybe its not such a bad thing after all
28	Robert Brown	John Hopkins	The Structural Basis of Airway Hyperresponsiveness
April
4	Lennart Lundblad	UVM	Airway closure in mice, editor's cut
11	Karina Ckless	UVM	Why we should be interested in Arginase?
14	Jeffrey Drazen	Harvard	Responses to Mechanical Compression of Airway Epithelial Cells
18	Michael Ayers	Geisinger Med. Ctr. PA	Innovative Modalities ifor Interventional Bronchoscopy
25	Daniel Weiss	UVM	Cord Blood Stem Cells:  Potential for Lung Remodeling
May
2			ATS Practice
9	Joel Kline	Univ. of Iowa	Bug and Lungs:  Asthma and the Hygiene Hypothesis
16			ATS Practice
23	No Meeting		ATS-San Diego
30	No meeting
June
6	No meeting
13	Jason Bates	UVM	Sequences of micro-rips: a mechanism for stress relaxation in lung tissue
20	Carol Wu	Univ. of Connecticut	IL-5 Production by Bronchial Epithelial Cells Contributes to Airway Eosinophilia
27	Faculty	UVM	Faculty Meeting
July
4	Holiday
11	David Kaminsky	UVM	Role of Adenosine and Leukotienes in Exercise-Induced Asthma
18	Teal Hallstrand		A new paradigm of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
25	Yvonne J-Heininger	UVM	Oxidants and Inflammation:  Does It Matter?
August
1	Sara Paveglio	UVM	Sticking it to Asthma
8	Meeting cancelled
15	Meeting cancelled
22	Matt Poynter	UVM	Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in NO2-Induced Allergic Sensitization
29	Wendy Neveu	UVM	Interleukin-6 and Th2 immune response in Asthma: A Work in Progress
September
5	Theodore Marcy	UVM	Devel.& Eval. of a Decision Support System for Smoking Cessation MD Interventions
12	Deborah Hogan	Dartmouth	Analysis of bacterial-fungal interactions:  Implications for mixed infections associated with CF
19
26	George Liekauf	Univ. of Cincinnati	Gene profiling in transgenic models of lung injury
October
3	Douglas Taatjes	UVM	The Microscopy Imaging Center:  What's in it for You?
10	John Thompson-Figueroa	UVM	Mouse lung airway structure quantified by micro-CT
17	Laurie Whittaker	UVM	Why are CD4 T cells deficient in CFTR Th2 biased?  A study of human lymphocytes
24	Hans Haverkamp	UVM	Evolution of airways hyperresponsiveness after chronic allergic airway inflammation
31
November
7			No meeting
14	Tim LeClair	UVM	Is Barrier Disruption the Link between GERD and Asthma?
21	Larry Borish	Univ. of Virginia	Arachidonic acid pathway in allergic inflammatory disorders: The immunogical mechanism for aspirin intolerance
28
December
5	No meeting		NIH videocast
12	Bridget Carney	UVM	Electronic Grant submissions - How does this affect you?  Summary of NIH procedures and changes in UVM / VLC procedures
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