2012 Annual Retreat
The 2012 Annual Retreat was a great success this year, despite the severe weather. If you attended the retreat this year we would like to have your feedback. To give your feedback click here.
The 2012 Annual Retreat was held at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, NE, April 13 - 15, 2012. Dr. Rodrigo Franco-Cruz is hosting the 2012 Annual Retreat. The program included scientific presentations by students, postdoctoral associates and faculty, plenary speaker and poster sessions. Presenters and posters are selected through the submission of abstracts. For an agenda of the 2012 Annual Retreat click here.
Our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Henry Jay Forman, Professor of Biochemsitry and Chemistry at the University of California, Merced.
Henry Jay Forman, Ph.D. is Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of California, Merced and Research Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Columbia University and a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University, he held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, USC, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, he was Chairman of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Forman is currently the Associate Editor for Reviews for Free Radical Biology & Medicine and President-Elect of the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine , and the Governor’s appointed scientist on the Governing Board of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
Dr. Forman’s expertise is in the areas of oxidative stress and signal transduction and has published over 200 manuscripts. In his more than forty years of research in free radical biology and chemistry, Dr. Forman has done pioneering work in several areas. He was a co-discover of mitochondrial superoxide production, first demonstrated that rats adapting to hyperoxia induced mitochondrial superoxide dismutase in lung epithelial cells, first demonstrated induction of glutathione biosynthesis by oxidants, and first demonstrated that endogenous hydrogen peroxide production by macrophages activated NF-B. For over 30 years, his work has largely focused on the role of oxidants in both damage and signaling in the lung. But, he has also participated in numerous investigations of oxidative stress and redox signaling in species ranging from anemones to white shrimp, elephant seals and humans.
His current work focuses on the mechanisms of cellular responses to oxidants and electrophiles in aging, cancer and air pollution. We use a combination of molecular biology and biochemistry approaches to investigate the signal transduction and cellular adaptation in response to the production of reactive oxygen species and other electrophiles that underlie phenotypic changes, including epithelial-mesenchymal transition, cell growth, and responses to toxic substances. Our projects involve gene responses to xenobiotic compounds and particulates that can cause either pulmonary inflammation or adaptive responses.
2011 Annual Retreat
The Redox Biology Center’s Annual Retreat began at 6:30 PM on Friday, April 15, 2011 at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, NE and ended on the morning of Sunday, April 17, 2011. The event was sponsored by the RBC to stimulate scientific interactions and an exchange of ideas and was hosted by Dr. Matthew Zimmerman in 2011. The program included scientific presentations by students, postdoctoral associates and faculty, a plenary speaker, a student social event and poster sessions. This year, we again had a poster contest for all submitted abstracts. The talks were selected from submitted abstracts.
2011's Keynote speaker was Dr. Frederick (Rick) Domann, Professor of Radiation Oncology in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program at the University of Iowa.
