2007 COBRE Seminars
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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January
2
9
16
23	William Carson	Univ. of Connecticut	Regulatory T cells in the development and resolution of ovalbumin-induced allergic airway disease in mice
30
February
6	James Lee	Mayo Clinic-Scottsdale	Co-Expression of IL-5 and Eotaxin-2 in Mice Creates an Eosinophil-Dependent Model of Respiratory Inflammation with Characteristics of Severe Asthma
13	Rama Mallampalli	University of Iowa	Novel Insights Into The Pathobiology of Sepsis-Induced Acute Lung Injury
20
27	Matt Wargo	Dartmouth	The interplay of choline catabolism and virulence in P. aeruginosa:  implications for infection in the lung environment
March
6	Reynold Panettieri	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Airway Remodeling:  Fact or Fiction
13	Charles Irvin	UVM	Placebo Effects in Asthma:   The ALA-ACRC TAPE Trial
20
27
April
3	Daniel Weiss	UVM	Modulation of Lung Inflammation by Mesenchymal Stem Cells
10	Lynn Schnapp	University of Washington	Mining the ARDS proteome: role of IGF in lung injury
17	Mercedes Rincon	UVM	Potential Grant:  "Interleukin-6 and allergic Airway Inflammation"
24
May
1	Dustin Engelken	UVM	T/B/A
8	Cong Yan	Univ. of Indiana	Pulmonary Inflammation and Tissue Remodeling
15	ATS practice		ATS Practice
22			ATS
29	ATS review		ATS review
June
5	Benjamin Suratt	UVM	The CXCR4/SDF-1 Axis and Acute Lung Injury
12
19	Jason Bates	UVM	Circumferential interdependence between airway smooth muscle and the airway wall
26
July
3
10	John Alcorn	UVM	TGF-beta, EMT, Pulmonary Fibrosis, and a whole bunch of JNK."
17	Sam Moskowitz	University of Washington	Antibiotic Resistance in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infection:  Implacationa and Strategies
24	Erik Riesenfeld	UVM	Asthma, Drugs and Remodeling
31
August
7
14
21	Adrian Kruit	University of Amsterdam	Gene Polymorphism in Fobrotic Sarcoidosis
28	Jaideep Sood	UVM	Pranayama in COPD : Research protocol review
September
4	Wendy Neveu	UVM	IL-6 production from lung epithelium in response to allergens and its contribution to allergic airways inflammation
11	Vikas Anathy	UVM	Apoptosis in Lung Biology and Oxidative Regulation of FAS
18
25
October
2
9	John Morrison	UVM	Role of Adenosine and Leukotrienes in Hyperpnea-Induced Bronchospasm Determined by Dynamic Analysis of Exhaled Breath Condensate: A Proposal
16	Robert Wise	American Lung Association	Carrying the TORCH:  Clinical Studies of COPD
23	Gerald Teague		The Impact of Heterogeneity on Asthma Control
30	David Kaminsky	UVM	Spirometry to Motivate Smoking Cessation
November
6
13	Meagan Goodwin	UVM	Systemic Administration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Abrogates Allergic Airways Inflammation
20
27	Scott Weiss		Asthma Genetics and Genomics: How the Human Genome Project will change the Practice of Medicine in the 21st Century
December
4	Vera Krymskaya		Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Migration: Role of PI3K-TSC2 Signaling
11	Jos van der Velden	UVM	GSK-3B:  Central Regulator of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity
18
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