RIP(Research in Progress)
on thursday
C2303 MCN, 9:30-10:30am:
Immunology Journal Club
on friday
A4224 MCN, Noon-1:00pm:
MPHI Journal Club
on tuesday
A5305 MCN, 4:00-5:00pm:
PEDs ID Seminar
2nd Friday of each month
512 LH, 11:00am-12:Noon:
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR?
Can you tell us what the image below is? Donor Lab, keep quiet!! Email your answers to Helen.chomicki@vanderbilt.edu. We will be posting images throughout the year. Winners will be announced each month at the Happy Hour. Those with most correct answers will receive a most awesome prize at the end of the year....
HPI DIVISION ANNOUNCEMENTS
A total of 30 publications have appeared in NCBI from primary and secondary HPI Faculty appointment labs in the past 30 days (see scroll below, complete with links to each publication). Congratulations to all published authors!
Note:Searches are set up to run automatically on a specific date, and gathered information is compiled 4 days prior to myHPI launch. If we have missed anyone, we apologize! Please contact us and we will rectify our mistake.
HPI Division Meeting: June 24, 2014 at MCN A5305. Chalk talk with Wonder Drake
2nd Friday Happy Hour: 09/13 at MCN A5305 - Hosted by the Cover/Hadjifrangiskou Labs
Featured Publication:
"Human metapneumovirus virus-like particles induce protective B and T-cell responses in a mouse model"
Cox et al., J Virol. 2014 Jun;88(11):6368-79
Congratulations to the Williams lab for this great accomplishment!
In this publication, Cox and colleagues generated virus-like particles of human metapneumovirus (EM above shows a cluster of virus-like particles) and tested their ability to induce antibody and T-cell-mediated responses in a murine model of infection.
Human metapneumovirus causes significant disease burden in infants, young children, the elderly and the immunocompromised.
No licensed vaccines are currently available; protein vaccines elicit sub-optimal responses, while live attenuated strain vaccines pose safety threats due to the potential of reversion to virulence.
The generation of virus-like particles can be a great alternative, given that they resemble the actual virus, but they cannot replicate because they lack DNA. Gardasil is an example of a licensed vaccine that uses virus-like particles!
How to get your coffee break back: Save and export your searches in NCBI
All of us could use more time. Maximize your time by letting NCBI do your weekly searches that are exportable to citation managers such as Endnote. Here is how:
Search for your favorite (or most fierce competitor) name, subject, microbe, ailment etc.
Underneath the search-bar there is a clickable link called "save search". Click.
A new tab opens asking you to name your search. Name as you please and click "save".
It will then ask you if you would like a recurring search and corresponding email alerts. If you click "Yes", it will then provide you with options for how often you would like the search to occur. An email will be sent to the email you provide, giving you these updates.
You can browse your saved searches at any time and if you so wish you can click on "Send to", located on the top right of each saved search, in order to send the saved results to your email, or your endnote library. Super convenient for when you are preparing that manuscript and/or grant.
