Goodbye Si! We will miss you!

Si went back to Shanghai at the beginning of March to finish her PhD thesis and will be doing her residency at the end of 2019! Congrats to her accomplishments and we hope to see you again soon!

Kristi awarded first place award for 3D Human Tissue Models to Assess Respiratory Toxicity

Kristi was awarded $5,000 worth of 3-D tissues from Epithelix!

PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and Epithelix Sàrl awarded researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany free three-dimensional (3-D) reconstructed human respiratory tissue models manufactured by Epithelix. After receiving proposals from all around the world, three researchers were chosen based on their proposals’ scientific merit and potential to use the tissues to replace animals in inhalation testing.

Check out the link for more information: https://www.piscltd.org.uk/epithelix-award/

Goodbye Mia!

Mia Benavidez joined us this Summer 2017 as part of a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine internship. She worked on the EGFR localization project making strides in vertical section confocal imaging of cell monolayers and biochemical assays to understand localization of EGFR in the context of cigarette smoke treated cells.

Best of luck in your future endeavors! WE WILL MISS YOU!

Published!

With new summer researchers comes new publications! Our most recent paper was just published in American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Check it out!

Cigarette smoke disrupts monolayer integrity by altering epithelial cell-cell adhesion and cortical tension

Kristine Nishida, Kieran A Brune, Nirupama Putcha, Pooja Mandke, Wanda K O'Neal, Danny Shade, Vasudha Srivastava, Menghen Wang, Hong Lam, Steven S An, M. Bradley Drummond, Nadia N Hansel, Douglas N Robinson, Venkataramana K. Sidhaye

http://ajplung.physiology.org/content/early/2017/06/19/ajplung.00074.2017