European soccer game in Baltimore!
(tickets sponsored by JHPDA)

Join the JHPDA in an amazing soccer game brought to Baltimore. AC Milan will take on Chelsea at Ravens stadium on Friday July 24th at 8pm. Take advantage of this networking event to socialize with SOM postdoctoral fellows while enjoying a game between two worldwide known teams.

Postdoctoral fellows are welcome to bring guests.

We are offering two types of discounted tickets!

1. Upper Level Sideline tickets (e.g., Sections 529-530 in stadium seating) (full price $40): $30 for each post-doc and $35 for each guest.

2. Lower Level Sideline tickets (e.g., Sections 128-130 in stadium seating) (full price $75): $65 for each post-doc and $70 for each guest.

Tickets will be on sale on Wednesday, May 27th in Mountcastle Auditorium of PCTB Building from 11:30pm until 1:30 pm. Payment by check made out to the "JHPDA" is preferable, though cash is acceptable. The number of tickets are limited so the tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis and TICKET RESERVATIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED BY E-MAIL.

Bring your badge or badges copies to receive the postdoctoral discount.

Any questions or comments can be addressed by e-mail to Gelsy Torres-Oviedo at gelsy.torres@jhu.edu or to any JHPDA officers during ticket sale.

The 2009 Scientific Seminar Series Awards Reception was held in the Turner concourse Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 from 4:15 to 6:30.

After 5 months of presentation and 37 outstanding posters, here the names of the winners of the 2009 Scientific seminar series.

2009: Third Scientific Seminar Series:

First place ($500): Jonathan Jun "Hypoxia-induced lipolysis as a novel
mechanism of hypercholesterolemia" Department of Medicine.
Second places (tie, $300 each):
Kalyan Srivastavam "Platelet Factor 4 mediates inflammation in cerebral malaria" Department of molecular and comparative pathobiology.
Mingui Xiang "Discovery of two novel Na+/H+ antiporters: candidate genes for essential hypertension" Department of Physiology.
Third place ($200): Yingli Fu "Mesenchymal stem cell delivery and engraftment tracking using multifunctional perfluorinated microcapsules" Department of Radiology and Radiological Science.

2009: First Poster Session:

Clinical Poster Category
First place ($250): Stephen M. Sozio "Multiple Markers of Inflammation Are Not Associated With Risk of Cerebrovascular Events in Patients Initiating Dialysis" Department of Medicine/Nephrology.
Second pace ($100): Michael E. Nottidge "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Department Triage" Department of Emergency Medicine, ACCM

Basic/Translational Poster Category
First place ($250): Ye Yan "The antioxidant enzyme Prdx1 controls motor
neuron differentiation by thiol-redox dependent activation of GDE2" Department of Neuroscience.
Second place ($100): Zhi Xie "Global Analysis of Human Protein-DNA Interactions Reveals Preferred Binding Sites for Both Annotated and Unconventional DNA-binding Proteins" Department of Ophthalmology.
Third place (tie, $75 each): Nilkantha Sen "GOSPEL: A novel neuroprotective protein that binds to GAPDH upon S-nitrosylation" Department of Neuroscience.
Jianyang Wang "TbPIF8, related to a yeast mitochondrial helicase, is required for trypanosome viability and kDNA organization" Department of Biological Chemistry

Poster Peoples’choices (3 way tie, $75 each):
Abhinav Sidana (Clinical) "Cryoablation and cyclophosphamide combination for cryoimmunotherapy of metastatic cancer: an interim analysis of Phase I trial" Department of Urology.
Jahn N. O’Neil (Basic/Translational) "Bilateral Effects of Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Congenitally Deaf Cats: A critical period for synaptic plasticity" Department of Otolaryngology.
Marianne Stefanini (Basic/Translational), "The increase of plasma VEGF
following an anti-VEGF intravenous injection explained by a computational model" Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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