2000 Travel Fellowship Grant Awardees 
for Young Investigators

The following have been awarded the 2000 Travel Fellowships to the Experimental Biology Meetings held April 15-18, 2000 in San Diego, California. The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine is pleased to acknowledge Genentech for sponsoring the Travel Grant Program, and Pfizer Central Research for sponsoring the Awardee Reception.

2000 Travel Fellowship Grant Awardees
Back row (L to R): Steven P. Jones, Stephen E. Mercer, Lori Lathrop Stern,
Martin Latour, Cameron W. Lush
Front row (L to R): Kenneth W. Hance, Nancy D. Turner, Loren E. Wold, Emily Ho,
Keith R. Martin. Lymarie Maldonado-Baez (not present: Douglas G. Johns)

Jennifer Pons

Ka-Yin Koby Mok

Yuan Clare Zhang

Kenneth W. Hance, University of North Carolina
"Is Nuclear Vitamin D Receptor Function Modulated by Protein Kinase C Mediated Phosphorylation?"

Emily Ho, The Ohio State University
"Dietary Zinc (Zn) Supplementation Inhibits NFkB Activation and the Development of IDDM"

Douglas G. Johns, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
"Neutral Sphingomyelinase mRNA Expression is Decreased in Vascular Smooth Muscle from the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR)"

Steven P. Jones, Louisiana State University HSC
"Deletion of IL-10 but not iNOS Exacerbates Myocardial Infarct Size in the Mouse"

Lori Lathrop Stern, USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
"Genomic DNA Strand Breaks in Peripheral Leukocytes are Correlated with RBC Folate Concentrations in Human Subjects"

Martin Latour, University of Manitoba
"An Acute Hepatic Vagotomy Results in Insulin Resistance in Rat"

Cameron W. Lush, University of Western Ontario
"Regulation of E- and P-Selectin Expression during Polymicrobial Sepsis in Inos-Deficient Mice"

Lymarie Maldonado-Baez, University of Puerto Rico
"Differential Expression of the MHC Class II Molecules RT1.B a and B Chains in Rat Livers: Effects of Dexamethasone and Pregnenolone 16 a-Carbonitrile"

Keith R. Martin, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health
"The Antioxidant N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (NAC) Increases Mitogenesis but Decreases Apoptosis in Mitogen-Stimulated Splenocytes from a Cancer-Prone Transgenic Mouse"

Stephen E. Mercer, University of Texas - Arlington
"Identification and Characterization of Vanilloid Receptors in the Human Mast Cell Line HMC-1"

Ka-Yin Koby Mok, Georgetown University
"Regulation of ANG II Receptors by Growth Hormone (GH) in Streptozotocin (STZ)-Diabetic Rats"

Jennifer Pons, Georgetown University
"Neuropeptide Y (NPY)-Induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell (VSMC) Proliferation: Role of Y1 and Y5 Receptor Induction and Coupling"

Nancy D. Turner, Texas A&M University
"Dietary Phytate Reduces Proliferation and Increases Apoptosis in Rat Colonocytes"

Loren E. Wold, University of North Dakota
"Isolated Ventricular Myocytes from Copper-Deficient Rat Hearts Exhibit Enhanced Cardiac Contractile Function"

Yuan Clare Zhang, University of Florida - Gainesville
"Antisense to B1-Adrenoceptors: A Novel and Specific B-Blocker for Reducing Hypertension"

 

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