Alfred Ayala

Recipient of SHOCK Society – Scientific Achievement Award (10th Annual), 2007

Visiting Professor Lecture:

•  Ayala, A.  2007.  Apoptosis and its’ Significance to Immune/Organ Dysfunction During Sepsis and Shock.  Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology/Austrian Cluster of Tissue Regeneration. Vienna, Austria, March 12th.

At 7th International Congress on the Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis, Munich, Germany, March 13-17, 2007:

• Invited Speaker, mini-symposia entitled:  "T-Regulatory Cell Populations Under Stressful Conditions", presentation entitled:  "Changes in murine regulatory T-cell subsets and markers". 

•  Speaker, mini-symposia entitled:  "Manipulating Apoptosis for Therapeutic Gain – Translating Science into Therapy.", presentation entitled:  "Novel Therapeutic approach III: siRNA." 

• Speaker, mini-symposia entitled:  "Mucosal Immunity in Critical Illness.", presentation entitled:  "Humoral and cellular immune responses in critical illness

• Moderator: Symposium:  "Dendritic Cells in the Innate Response to Infection"

• Moderator: Symposium:  "T-Regulatory Cell Populations Under Stressful Conditions”

• Moderator: Free Communications Session:  " Apoptosis/Cell Death and Inflammation"

At 27th annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), Toronto, Canada, April 18-20, 2007:

•  Completed last year Recorder (councilor-officer)/Program Committee Chairman for the SIS

At 30th annual conference on Shock (Shock Society), Baltimore, MD, June 12, 2007:

•  Moderator: Mini-Symposia 6: “Signals”

Ryan Swan, MD

(NRSA fellow/Surgical Resident)

• Oral Presentation entitled: “Polymicrobial sepsis enhances clearance of apoptotic immune cells by splenic macrophages.”  at the 2nd annual Academic Surgical Conference-a joint meeting of the Association for Academic Surgery (41st annual) and the Society of University Surgeons, Pheonix, AZ, February 7th, 2007.

• Manuscript accepted for publication in Surgery

Mario Perl, MD

(former lab member;

now Surgical Resident / Instructor, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)

• Travel Awardee at the 30th Annual conference on Shock (Shock Society), Baltimore, MD, June 9-12, 2007.

•  Oral Presentation entitled: “In vivo silencing of caspase-3 in lung epithelial cells ameliorates extrapulmonary acute lung injury (ALI) induced by hemorrhagic shock & sepsis.”  Oral at the 30th Annual conference on Shock (Shock Society), Baltimore, MD, June 9-12, 2007.

• Manuscript accepted for publication in the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine.

Doreen Wesche-

Soldato, PhD

(former Pathobiology Grad student)

• Manuscript accepted for publication in the American Journal of Pathology

• Defended Ph.D. Thesis and graduated in April-May, 2007.

Joanne Lomas-

Neira, PhD

(Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow)

• Oral Presentation entitled: “The Murine Pulmonary Endothelial Cell’s Response to Pro-inflammatory Stimuli Associated with Traumatic Shock.”  Oral & Poster presentation at 7th International Congress on the Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis, Munich, Germany, March 13-17, 2007 

• Invited seminar/presentation entitled:  “TNF-α Priming for the Development of Shock Induced Acute Lung Injury (ALI): Mediation by Local Tissue Not Circulating Cells” at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Groton, CT, August 17, 2007

Fabienne Venet, PharmD., PhD

(Postdoctoral Fellow,

Research Associate)

• Oral Presentation entitled: “Low Monocyte HLA-DR Predicts Mortality and Secondary Septic Shock in Severe Burn Patients.”  Oral & Poster presentation at 7th International Congress on the Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis, Munich, Germany, March 13-17, 2007   

•  Oral Presentation entitled: “Lymphocytes as an anti-apoptotic / anti-inflammatory regulator of extrapulmonary acute lung injury?”  Oral presentation at the 30th Annual conference on Shock (Shock Society), Baltimore, MD, June 9-12, 2007.

• Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award to the 40th Society of Leukocyte Biology (SLB) meeting, held in Cambridge, MA, October 11-13, 2007

• Manuscript (Review) provisionally accepted for publication in the J. Leukocyte Biology.

Xin Huang, MD, PhD

(Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate)

• Manuscript (Review) accepted for publication in the Expert Opinions in Biological Therapeutics