URMC / Lung Biology and Disease Program / Lung Research & Trainee Day / Lung Research & Trainee Day Abstracts Lung Research & Trainee Day Abstracts 2021 Lung Research & Trainee Day Abstracts Predoc Uday Baliga, Improved multi-plasmid delivery using PEG-linked bis-PNAs Erin Gibbons, Glycoprotein-NMB (GPNMB) is Pro-Tumorigenic in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) Emma House, INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF CD4+ T CELLS IN FLAVORINGS-INDUCED BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS Jing Liu, Gene Transfer of MRCKα Rescues Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Acute Lung Injury Joseph Lucas, Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) disrupts protective tight junction proteins in lung epithelial cells Sean Nelson, Intranasal nanoparticle vaccination elicits a persistent, polyfunctional CD4 T cell responses in the murine lung specific for a highly conserved influenza antigen that are sufficient to mediate protection from influenza virus challenge Traci Pressley, Endoplasmic Reticulum-Resident Protein Sigma1R Regulates Endothelial Inflammation and Permeability Ashley Rackow, Novel Ligand BTB Reveals Novel Mechanisms of Myofibroblast Differentiation in the Context of Pulmonary Fibrosis Timothy Smyth, Diesel Exhaust Particles Reduce Airway Epithelial Barrier Integrity through a Reduction of the Tight Junction Protein Tricellulin Mike Sportiello, Tissue resident memory CD8 T cell subsets exhibit unique metabolic profiles Postdoc Alan Brooks, Plakophilin-2 Deletion in Epicardium-Derived Progenitor Cells Enhances Inflammatory Cell Recruitment to the ARVC-like Myocardium Matt Eckard, Differential effects of developmental Fe or Fe+S aerosol exposure on neonatal neurochemistry and motor impulsivity in adulthood Kevin Hannon, Transpulmonary Water Loss: Exhaled Breath Condensate Volume and its Utility as a Non-invasive Biomarker in Asthma Chia George Hsu, 4-Hydroxynonenal Inhibits Inflammasome Activation by Targeting NLRP3 Courtney Jackson, Early life influences on developing infant B cell immunity Gagandeep Kaur, p16-3MR mouse model: Role for Studying Cellular Senescence in vivo Tesuro Maeda, Incidental Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism during Endobronchial Ultrasound in a Patient with Multiple Trauma Michelle Millar, MTOR maintains vascular integrity in the lung Thivanka Muthumalage, Selective ablation of telomere protection protein 1 (TPP1) in lung epithelium induce an age-dependent augmentation of the inflammatory response by tobacco smoke exposure Rauf Ahmad Najar, Essential role of MIRO1 in maintaining endothelial cell integrity Emma Norris, Receptor Binding Domain of SARS-CoV-2 is a functional αvβ3 integrin ligand that supports cellular adhesion and phosphotyrosine signaling Samantha Romanick, Methods for Identifying Respirable Microplastic Particulate in Indoor Dust and Air Mohammad Shadab, Spleen Tyrosine Kinase Mediates Endothelial Barrier Disruption in Acute Lung Injury via Phosphorylation of VE-cadherin Staff/Tech/Other Soumyaroop Bhattacharya, Single cell transcriptomic profiling identifies molecular phenotypes of newborn human lung cells David Chalupa, Inhalation Core Facility: Electronic Cigarette Vapor Generation and Characterization in Support of Human Clinical, Animal, and In Vitro Environmental Health Effects Research Ethan David Cohen, Neonatal Hyperoxia Suppresses Fatty Acid Synthesis and Proliferation in Atrial Cardiomyocytes by Disrupting Mitochondrial Function and Activating AMPK Andrew Dylag, Low Dose Hyperoxia Primes Airways for Fibrosis in Mice after Influenza A Infection SoYoung Kim, Targeting ΔNp63α in flavoring-induced airway epithelial cell death Zahra Mahamed, Novel Role of Mitochondria Associated Endoplamic Reticulum Membrane (MAM) Proteins BiP/GRP78 and Mortalin/GRP75 in Mediating Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Endothelial cells Gloria Pryhuber, Mapping Pediatric and Adult Lung During a Pandemic Min Yee, Neonatal hyperoxia stimulates ATF4-dependent folate metabolism in proliferating alveolar epithelial type 2 cells