Bioelectrics Seminar Series

Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics Seminar Series

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Title: Hyaluronan Mediates Airway Hyper-responsiveness in Halogen Induced Lung Injury

Speaker:  Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., Dr.Sc.(Hon.)

Distinguished Professor, Alice McNeal Endowed Chair, Vice Chair and Director

Division of Molecular and Translational Biomedicine

Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Editor-in-Chief: The American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cell & Molecular Physiology

When: 12:00 PM, Monday, June 6, 2016

Where: 1st floor conference room, IRP II

Abstract: Chlorine (Cl2) and Bromine (Br2) are highly irritant and reactive gases produced in large quantities throughout the world. Exposure to Cl2 or Br2 released into the atmosphere during transportation and industrial accidents as well as during acts of terrorism, has resulted in significant morbidity and mortality to both humans and animals. Physiological and biophysical and biochemical studies utilizing in vitro systems and animals exposed to chlorine or bromine gas have helped us elucidate the biochemical mechanisms responsible for halogen injury to pulmonary and extrapulmonary targets.

Biosketch: Dr. Matalon earned a BS in Physics from Macalester College (MN) and an MS in Physics and PhD in Physiology from the University of Minnesota. He has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of surfactant proteins, reactive oxygen-nitrogen intermediates, lung epithelial ion transporters and lung fluid balance, viral induced injury to the mammalian alveolar epithelium and more recently, countermeasures against oxidant gases. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1978, has served on numerous NIH and other grant review panels and has been a frequently invited speaker world-wide.

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Posted By: Barbara Carroll
Date: Wed Jun 01 08:34:49 EDT 2016