Researchers attend Shock Society conference
James Cook, Ph.D., a prominent investigator and the former president of the Shock Society, along with members of his lab, co-investigator, George Tempel, Ph.D., Sarah Ashton, Kelly Guyton, Olga Romanenko, Ph.D., Octavia Peck, and Letteria Minutoli, attended the Shock Society Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Shock, which was held on Marco Island, Fla.
Fresh
from the Shock Society's 19th Annual Preseidential 5K Run are left to right
Sarah Ashton, Octavia Peck, cheerleaders Dr. George Tempel and Dr. James
Cook, Dr. Olga Romanenko and Kelly Guy Guyton.
Kelly Guyton, a pre-doctoral student, gave a poster presentation entitled, “Divergent Signal Transduction pathways activated by Bacterial Endotoxin.” Former postdoctoral students, Marcella Ferlito, Ph.D., and Basilia Zingarelli, Ph.D. also presented: “Effect of Recovery Time After Heat Shock on LPS Stimulation.” and “Peroxynitrite as an inducer of divergent necrotic and apoptotic events encountered in shock and sepsis.”
The Shock Meeting brought together scientists, clinicians, and students from all over the world with a main objective to understand and treat injury, inflammation and sepsis.
Numerous workshops and symposia presented topics ranging from antibiotic treatment, surgical intervention, to anti-inflammatory therapies. The meeting also highlighted various animal models, the mechanism of necrotic/apoptotic pathways through which sepsis follows, the innate immune response and the development of multiple organ failure leading to death.
Another highlight of the meeting was the Young Investigator Research
Forum that provided the opportunity for residents and graduate students
to generate questions and foster ideas on their peers’ research.
The meeting exercised both the brain and the body with the Shock Society’s
Nineteenth Annual Presidential 5K Run that took place at 6 a.m. along the
beach. Peck came in third place with Cook and Tempel cheering the group
on.