Please join us on Wednesday, December 4th, for a special seminar by Steven Rowe, MD, MSPH, of the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Dr. Rowe will speak on “The Transformation of Cystic Fibrosis Therapy (and Other Opportunities in Diseases of Mucus).” This special seminar will begin at 2:00 p.m. and be held in 1131 Bioinformatics Hall. For more … Read more
Please join us on Wednesday, December 4th, for the next Visiting Pulmonary Scholar seminar of the 2019-2020 season. Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak on “New Insights into the Airway Epithelial Ensemble.” The local speaker to follow will be Kenichi Okuda, MD, PhD, Research Associate at the UNC Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary … Read more
Please join us on Friday, December 6th, for a presentation by Camille Ehre, PhD, Research Assistant Professor at the UNC Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center. Dr. Ehre's presentation is entitled “Role of CFTR on Mucus Properties.” This session will begin at 9:00 a.m. and be held in G100 Bondurant Hall.
Please join us on Friday, December 13th, for presentations by Saira Ahmad, PhD, and Arunava Ghosh, PhD. Dr. Ahmad is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cystic Fibrosis / Pulmonary Research & Treatment. Her presentation is entitled “Novel Peptides Inhibit Orai1 to Reduce Pulmonary Inflammation.” Dr. Ghosh is a Research Associate in Cystic Fibrosis / Pulmonary Research … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Kym Gowdy, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at East Carolina University. Dr. Gowdy's presentation is entitled “A Fishy Story: Uncovering the Molecular Interactions Between Pulmonary Lipid Metabolism and Environmental Lung Diseases.” This session will be held in 321 MacNider Hall.
Please join us for a presentation by Stavros Garantziotis, MD, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Garantziotis's presentation is entitled “TLR5 Protects Aagainst Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Reducing Lung Dysbiosis.” This session will be held in G100 Bondurant Hall.
Please join us for a presentation by Don Cook, PhD, Senior Investigator of the Immunity, Inflammation, and Disease Laboratory Immunogenetics Group (NIEHS). Dr. Cook's presentation is entitled “Digging up the roots of asthma endotypes.” This session will be held in G100 Bondurant Hall.
Please join us on Friday, January 24th, for the Eighth Annual John K. Sheehan Lecture In Mucin Biology and a presentation by Burton F. Dickey, MD. Dr. Dickey is a Professor in the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. His presentation is entitled "Airway Mucin Secretion: Molecular Mechanism … Read more
Please join us at Duke University on Friday, January 24th, for Kaganov Research Initiative in Pulmonary Medicine and Engineering Seminar speaker Thomas Barker, PhD. Dr. Barker is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology and the Director of the University of Virginia Fibrosis Institute, and his presentation is entitled "Mechanotransduction In Disease: More Than … Read more
Please join us for a presentation by Dean Staus, PhD, a Research Specialist in the Lefkowitz Lab at Duke University. Dr. Staus will talk about stabilizing receptors using nanobodies and other tools, technology that has been utilized to stabilize CFTR for conformational and functional studies. His presentation is entitled “Structural and Molecular Insights into G … Read more