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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:

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
 

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
 

9:30 a.m.

Mechanisms of prostaglandin H2 synthase deactivation by nitrogen oxide species.
R.S. Deeb, Weill Medical College of of Cornell University 
 

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
 

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
 

10:15 a.m.

Transgene-induced enhancement of hemato-vascular differentiation from murine embryonic stem cells.
J. Bushman, University of North Carolina
 

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
 
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
 

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
 

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