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Chugai Award Lecture and Symposium for Young Investigators
Chaired: J.C. Hogg
Monday, April 19
8:30AM - 11:30AM
Washington Convention Center, Room
103A
Supported by an educational grant from:

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8:30 a.m. |
The role of the mucosal immune response in the pathogenesis of
chronic airway obstruction.
J.C. Hogg, St. Paul's Hospital
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9:15 a.m. |
Lung tissue repair following smoking cessation in a guinea pig model
of cigarette smoke induced emphysema.
B. Meshi, University of British
Columbia
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9:30 a.m. |
Mechanisms of prostaglandin H2 synthase deactivation by nitrogen
oxide species.
R.S. Deeb, Weill Medical College of of
Cornell University
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9:45 a.m. |
Over-expression of an isoform of the nuclear receptor coactivator AIB1
leads to altered proliferation of mammary epithelial cells.
M.T. Tilli, Georgetown
University
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10:00 a.m. |
Telomere length abnormalities are early events in the initiation of
epithelial carcinogenesis.
A.K. Meeker, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine
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10:15 a.m. |
Transgene-induced enhancement of hemato-vascular
differentiation from murine embryonic stem cells.
J. Bushman, University of
North Carolina
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10:30 a.m. |
Mac-1
(CD18/CD11b, CR3)-dependent elastase cytotoxicity is required for
tissue damage in a model of thrombohemorrhagic vasculitis.
J. Hirahashi,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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10:45 a.m. |
Analyzing filapodia extensions from immune cells in response to
micro- and nanometer scale patterned antigenic stimuli.
R.N. Orth, Cornell University
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11:00 a.m. |
Repression of androgen receptor function and cellular proliferation in
the CWR-R1 recurrent prostate cancer cell line
with dominant negatives and RNA interference.
L.A. Ponguta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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11:15 a.m. |
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) analysis reveals
distinct dynamics of claudins and occludin within the epithelial tight
junction (TJ).
L. Shen, The
University of Chicago |
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