CIMB hosted about 40 transplant scientists from major midwestern university medical centers presenting their research. William M. Baldwin III, MD, professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, gave the keynote talk.

Participants included researchers from the IU School of Medicine, U of Pittsburgh Medical Center, U of Wisconsin at Madison, U of Tennessee at Memphis, U of Illinois at Chicago, U of Chicago, Ohio State U and Medical Center, Emory U, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Methodist Research Institutute, Indianapolis.

Publications

Chang HC, Zhang S, Thieu, V, Slee RB, Bruns HA, Laribee RN, Klemsz MJ and Kaplan MH. (2005) PU.1 expression delineates heterogeneity in Th2 cells. Immunity. 22:693-703.

Robertson MJ, Chang HC, Pelloso D and Kaplan MH. (2005) Decreased STAT4 expression and interferon- production after interleukin-12 stimulation of lymphocytes from patients undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation for lymphoma. Blood. 106:963-970.

Renukaradhya, G. J., Webb, T. J. R., Khan, M. A., Lin, Y. L., Du, W., Gervay-Hague, J., Brutkiewicz, R. R.   Virus-induced inhibition of CD1d1-mediated antigen presentation:   reciprocal regulation by p38 and ERK.   J. Immunol.   175:4301-4308, 2005.

Li, P., Wang, N., Zhou, D., Yee, C.S.K., Chang, C.-H., Brutkiewicz, R.R. , Blum, J.S.   Disruption of MHC class II-restricted antigen presentation by vaccinia virus.   J. Immunol.   175:6481-6488, 2005.

Blum, J.S. (2005) One for One, Peptide Binding to MHC Molecules. J. Immunol., Pillars in Immunology 4161-4162.

Eskelinen , E-L, A.M. Cuvero, M.R.G. Taylor, I. Nishino, J.S. Blum, J.F. Dice, I.V. Sandoval, J. Bonafacino, J. Lippincott-Schwartz, J.T. August, and P. Saftig (2005) Unifying nomenclature for the isoforms of the lysosomal membrane protein LAMP-2. Traffic 6:1058-61.

Roberts-Webb, T., T.L. Sumpter, A.T. Thiele, K.A. Swanson, D. S. Wilkes.
Phenotype and Function of Lung Dendritic Cells. Critical Reviews in Immunology. 2005. 25:465-491.  

Thiele, A.T., Sumpter, T.L., Walker, J.A., Xu, Q, Chang, C., Bacallao, and D.S. Wilkes. JVI Spotlight: Pulmonary Immunity to Viral Infection: Adenoviral Infection of Lung Dendritic Cells Renders T cells Non-responsive to IL-2. Journal of Virology.   2006.   80:1826-1836.

Yoshida, S., A. Haque , T. Mizobuchi, T. Iwata, M. Chiyo, T. J. Webb , L. A. Baldridge, K. M. Heidler , O. W. Cummings, T. Fujisawa, J. S. Blum , D., D. Brand, D. S. Wilkes. Anti-type V Collagen Lymphocytes that Express IL-17 and IL-23 Induce Rejection Pathology in Fresh and Well-healed Lung Transplants. American Journal of Transplantation. 2006. 6:724-735.

Swanson, K.A., Y. Zheng, K. M. Heidler, T. Mizobuchi, and D.S. Wilkes. CD11c+ Cells Modulate Pulmonary Immune Responses by Production of Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol. 2004, 30:311-318.

Sumpter, T. and D.S. Wilkes. The Role of Autoimmunity to Type V Collagen in Organ Allograft Rejection: A Focus on Immunity to Type V Collagen in the Pathogenesis of Lung Transplant Rejection. Amer. J. Physiol.: Lung Molec. Physiol. 2004. 286(6):L1129- 39.

Swanson, K.A., Y. Zheng, K.M. Heidler, Z. Zhang, T. Roberts, and D.S. Wilkes. Flt3L, IL-4, GM-CSF, and Adherence-mediated isolation of Murine Lung Dendritic Cells: Assessment of Isolation Technique on Phenotype and Function. Journal of Immunology. 2004. 173:4875-81.

O'Donnell, P.W., A. Haque, M.J. Klemsz, M.H. Kaplan, and J.S. Blum. (2004) Induction of the Ag Processing Enzyme GILT in Melanoma Cells is STAT1-Dependent but CIITA-Independent, J. Immunology Cutting Edge 173:731-736.

Roberts, T. J., Lin, Y., Spence, P. M., Van Kaer, L., R.R. Brutkiewicz. CD1d1-dependent control of the magnitude of an acute antiviral immune response. J. Immunology. 172:3454-3461, 2004.

O'Sullivan AC, Chang H-C, Yu Q and M.H. Kaplan. (2004) STAT4 is required for IL-12 induced chromatin remodeling of the CD25 locus. J Biol Chem. 279:7339-7345.