NIMML Director Gives an Invited Talk at the Gordon Research Conference

On January 9^th, 2013, Professor Bassaganya-Riera, the Director of the Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens and the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) gave an invited presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Carotenoids (http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=carot).

The Gordon Research Conference on Carotenoids has been held triennially since 1992. The 2013 8th Gordon Research Conference on Carotenoids upheld the tradition of bringing together transdisciplinary research investigators at the forefront of carotenoid science. The conference showcased exciting developments and updates with presentations on breeding for human health; metabolic engineering of provitamin A carotenoids; biosynthesis and regulation; apocarotenoid biogenesis and signaling; carotenoid transport and metabolism; biological actions of carotenoids and their metabolites; carotenoids and chronic disease prevention; and apocarotenoids in vision.

Dr. Bassaganya-Riera discussed the anti-inflammatory and immune modulatory mechanisms of abscisic acid (ABA), a plant hormone produced through the carotenoid pathwa. (http://www.nimml.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ABAGRC.pdf). Specifically, he discussed how ABA modulates insulin resistance and adipose tissue inflammation, colitis and influenza-driven pulmonary inflammation in mouse models, as well as the molecular mechanisms underlying these immune modulatory actions.

Row 1: SUSAN MAYNE, JULIE MARES, JOHANNES VON LINTIG, JAIME AMENGUAL TERRASA, JESUS BELTRAN, XIANG-DONG WANG, ELEANORE WURTZEL, ACHIM STOCKER, BRUNO ROBERT, DENISE GALZERANO, ELIZABETH KISH PERRIN, ARZU YILDIRIM

Row 2: MICHEL HAVAUX , JOSEP BASSAGANYA-RIERA, SALIM AL-BABILI , ROSALIE CROUCH, BEHLING CHENG, HIDEKI HASHIMOTO, KATJA SVENNEVIG, JOHN LANDRUM, ZUO-YU ZHAO, KATHERINE MEAGHER, SAKINA KASHANI, JERILYN TIMLIN, MONIKA SOBIECHOWSKA

Row 3: ANA MOORE, THOMAS MOORE, BETTY JANE BURRI, ADRIAN WYSS, PAUL BERNSTEIN , CORREY JONES, JOHN ERDMAN, LEWIS RUBIN, WOLFGANG SCHALCH, RALPH RUHL, YISHAI LEVY

Row 4: HARRY KLEE, JAIMIE VAN NORMAN, GERALD FREYMARK, JEFFREY KANEL, OULIANA ZIOUZENKOVA, XIAOLING YAO, GIOVANNI GIULIANO, ERNESTO LLAMAS, DARWIN BABINO, MATTHEW TOOMEY, YAMUNA SAHADEVAN, BARRY POGSON

Row 5: NIKOLAY POLYAKOV, ADRIAN ALDER, RALF WELSCH, HARRY FRANK, GERARD BARRY, RYAN MCQUINN, STANLEY BOWER, HALIM JUBRAN, CHARLES AMPOMAH-DWAMENA, AMY LAFOUNTAIN, MARIA MANUELA MENDES-PINTO, LI LI

Row 6: GRZEGORZ PALCZEWSKI, MARIA FEDERICO, CLAUDIA STANGE, JAIME MARTINEZ-GARCIA, KOICHI AIZAWA, CHUN LIU, ELIZABETH SPIEGLER, LOREDANA QUADRO , CATHERINE RAMEAU

Row 7: MICHAEL LA FRANO, YECHUN WANG, EIJI YAMASHITA, PHILIP YOUNG, ASAPH AHARONI, VIJAYA LAKSHMI, MORGAN CICHON, NANCY MORAN, CYNTHIA WANG, MARIA SHUMSKAYA, ENRICO MARTINOIA , WILLIAM BLANER, EARL HARRISON

Row 8: PING CHE, YUICHIRO TSUCHIYA, GLENN LOBO, NATALIA PALACIOS ROJAS, ELKHANSA SIDAHMED, ELIZABETH JOHNSON, BINXING LI, PREEJITH VACHALI, MANUEL RODRIGUEZ-CONCEPCION, YAAKOV TADMOR, NOAM CHAYUT, KARIN LINNEWIEL-HERMONI, JOSEPH HIRSCHBERG

Row 9: ELIZABETH PARKES, YINGHUI ZHANG, KRISHNA NIYOGI, PATRICK BOREL, KATHERINE WONGCARTER, MARK TAYLOR, KATJA FREDE, SUSANNE BALDERMANN, XIAOMING GONG, JAMIE NICKERSON, MICHAEL WALTER, BLANCHE IP, DARIUSZ NIEDZWIEDZKI, ALAN BLOWERS

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