Best Research Paper published in AJP-Lung by a Junior Investigator

The American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology invites nominations for the “Best original research paper published in AJP-Lung between 2014-2016 by a junior author (Assistant Professor, Instructor, Post-doctoral fellow or graduate student.)  The nominee must be either first or senior author and in the opinion of the nominator, contributed significantly in the inception and conduct of this project.  Please submit a nomination stating the importance of this paper in the field as well as the contributions of the first author to Dr. Sadis Matalon, Editor AJP-Lung  (sadis@uab.edu) with a copy to Ms. McEver (amcever@emory.edu) by January 30, 2017.  All applications will be reviewed by the Editor and Associate Editors who will chose the winner by secret ballot.  The winner will receive $500 and a certificate of appreciation at the EB 2017 meeting.

APS-Select August 2016

AJP-Lung was very happy to have a very important article chosen this month for the prestigious APSselect. Click on the title to go directly to the paper

Congratulations go out to:

E-cigarette use results in suppression of immune and inflammatory-response genes in nasal epithelial cells similar to cigarette smoke

Elizabeth M. Martin, Phillip W. Clapp, Meghan E. Rebuli, Erica A. Pawlak, Ellen Glista-Baker, Neal L. Benowitz, Rebecca C. Fry, Ilona Jaspers

 

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology Published 12 July 2016 Vol. 311 no. 1, L135-L144 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00170.2016

Giessen Scholarship Award Winners

AJP-Lung would like to following receipients of our first  travel scholarship to attend Welcome to the 14th Annual Retreat of the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung

Dr. Yoko Ito, National Jewish Health, University of Colorado Denver
and
Dr. Andrea Frump, Indiana University School of Medicine


Please view the link here to view the program: Retreat Programme

AJP-Lung Behind the Scenes

AJP-Lung would like to recognize our excellent team that works behind the scenes to make this the best pulmonary journal published.  Ellyn Kestnbaum is our journal Supervisor who works tirelessly after your paper is accepted until it is published.  Mona Trang  worked for us for many years in the peer review department but has recently retired.  We were very lucky to have Daniel Pisconte come on as our peer review Coordinator.  He is always invaluable in helping out with manuscript submissions.  We are very fortunate to have these individuals on our AJP-Lung team and appreciate them very much.

AJP-Lung loves meeting authors at the ATS meeting.

Our Editor in Chief,  Dr. Sadis Matalon, had the privilege of meeting some recently published authors at the annual ATS Meeting.

Three authors of the paper below are in the group picture - Dr. G. Florova,  S. Karandashova (a MD/PhD student and M. Chamiso (a first year student of UT Health Northeast recently accredited MS Biotechnology Program).

Dose dependency of outcomes of intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy in new rabbit empyema models Andrey A. Komissarov, Galina Florova, Ali O Azghani, Ann Buchanan, Jake Boren, Timothy Craig Allen, Najib M. Rahman, Kathleen Koenig, Mignote Chamiso, Sophia Karandashova, James Henry, Steven Idell

Dr. Matalon was also very pleased to meet two first year students of the Biotechnology Program  at University of Texas Health Science Center: R. Girard and A. Fergis. And of course, Dr. Tucker,

AJP-Lung welcomes new statistical consultant

Please join us in welcoming our newest member to the AJP-Lung team.  Charity Morgan, PhD will take on the role as statistical consultant for the journal.  Dr. Morgan is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Her expertise will be invaluable to AJP-Lung.

Message from the Editor in Chief

From Sadis Matalon, Editor in Chief, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Dear Associate Editors, Consulting Editors, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors and Contributors,

I am delighted to tell you that our 2015 Impact Factor has increased to 4.721.  This makes the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology the highest impact journal publishing basic and translational research articles, reviews and perspectives on all aspects of pulmonary biology In addition, our number of submissions has increased steadily during the last three years.  I am grateful to our Associate Editors for their time and effort in selecting reviewers and carefully summarizing their comments in a succinct plan which informs authors of what they need to do for their manuscript to be considered for publication.  My most sincere thanks to our Managing Editor, Ms. Amy McEver, who makes sure that reviews are submitted on time and keeps the journal functioning very efficiently.  Many thanks to the Editorial Board members and guest reviewers for their service to our journal and the pulmonary community.  These days, everybody has too many grants to write and finding additional time to review manuscripts is not an easy task.  Nevertheless the reviews are of the highest quality and usually on time (Amy makes sure of this).  Finally, my thanks to all contributors who trusted us with their manuscripts.  It is my hope that the review process always improves the quality of the science and increases its impact.

My promise is that we will spare no effort to keep on increasing the quality and impact of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.  We welcome your submissions as well as your thoughts of how to reach new heights.

With best regards

Sadis Matalon

 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
Director, Pulmonary Injury and Repair Center
UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham
BMRII 224 | 901 19th St. S. | Birmingham, AL 35294
P: 205.934.4231 | smatalon@uabmc.edu

Editor-in-Chief | American Journal of Physiology –
Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
http://ajplung.physiology.org/    Impact Factor: 4.721

2015 Impact Factor Announced

 We are pleased to announce that our 2015 Impact Factor has risen to

4.721

Thank you to all of our editors, editorial board and reviewers that helpe us accomplish this achivement.

For a list of all all American Physiological Society's Impact Factors, please click HERE

APSselect June 2016

AJP-Lung was very happy to have two of it's articles chosen this month for the prestigious APSselect. Click on the title to go directly to the paper

Congratulations go out to:

A. Veerappan, M. Thompson, A. R. Savage, M. L. Silverman, W. S. Chan, B. Sung, B. Summers, K. C. Montelione, P. Benedict, B. Groh, A. G. Vicencio, H. Peinado, S. Worgall, R. B. Silver  for their paper entitled "Mast cells and exosomes in hyperoxia-induced neonatal lung disease."

 

 

Also honored this month were:

 

Sudakshina Ghosh, Manveen Gupta, Weiling Xu, Deloris A. Mavrakis, Allison J. Janocha, Suzy A. A. Comhair, Mohammad Mahfuzul Haque, Dennis J. Stuehr, Jun Yu, Peter Polgar, Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad, Serpil C. Erzurum   for their paper entitled "Phosphorylation inactivation of endothelial nitric oxide synthesis in pulmonary arterial hypertension ."

  Thank you very much for publishing your best work in AJP-LUNG!!

Deadline for Giessen Scholarship is June 1, 2016.

PUBLISH AN OUTSTANDING ARTICLE IN AJP-LUNG:

WIN A SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PULMONARY MEETINGS IN THE WORLD

One of the Deputy Editors of AJP-Lung (Dr. Rory Morty) is in charge of the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung at the Universities  of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Germany.  This program sponsors a yearly retreat, which in the opinion of the Editor is one of the best pulmonary meetings in the world

(https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb11/forschung/graduierte/mbml/files/retreat_2012.pdf).

We feel that trainees and junior faculty will benefit greatly by attending this meeting to be  held in Rauischholzhausen, Germany August 6-8, 2016.  The American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology and the International Graduate Programme Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung are co-sponsoring two fellowships this year to allow one trainee (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow or clinical Fellow) and one junior faculty (instructor or Assistant Professor) to travel to Giessen and participate in this glorious event.  A travel allowance of up to $1200 to cover transportation will be paid by AJP-Lung while local transportation, food and lodging will be provide the ICPMBM).  Candidates should have published an outstanding paper in AJP-Lung during the last two years as first author while either a trainee or an Assistant Professor.  Those that receive an award from AJP-Lung will be given priority.  Nominations or self-nominations should be sent to the Managing Editor (Ms. Amy McEver at amcever@emory.edu).  Winners will be expected to write a short review on a topic of a lecture by an invited speaker to be considered for publication in AJP-Lung.

Rory Morty, PhD                                                      Sadis Matalon, PhD

Deputy Editor                                                           Editor in Chief

April 2016 APSselect Winner

Our congratulations go out to Dr. Neil Aggarwal and his colleagues for having their most recent article chosen for APSselect. You can access the article here.

AJP-Lung 2015 Accomplishments

Nominations being accepted for the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung

PUBLISH AN OUTSTANDING ARTICLE IN AJP-LUNG:

WIN A SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PULMONARY MEETINGS IN THE WORLD

One of the Deputy Editors of AJP-Lung (Dr. Rory Morty) is in charge of the International Graduate Programme in Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung at the Universities  of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Germany.  This program sponsors a yearly retreat, which in the opinion of the Editor is one of the best pulmonary meetings in the world

(https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb11/forschung/graduierte/mbml/files/retreat_2012.pdf).

We feel that trainees and junior faculty will benefit greatly by attending this meeting to be  held in Rauischholzhausen, Germany August 6-8, 2012.  The American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology and the International Graduate Programme Molecular Biology and Medicine of the Lung are co-sponsoring two fellowships this year to allow one trainee (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow or clinical Fellow) and one junior faculty (instructor or Assistant Professor) to travel to Giessen and participate in this glorious event.  A travel allowance of up to $1200 to cover transportation will be paid by AJP-Lung while local transportation, food and lodging will be provide the ICPMBM).  Candidates should have published an outstanding paper in AJP-Lung during the last two years as first author while either a trainee or an Assistant Professor.  Those that receive an award from AJP-Lung will be given priority.  Nominations or self-nominations should be sent to the Managing Editor (Ms. Amy McEver at amcever@emory.edu).  Winners will be expected to write a short review on a topic of a lecture by an invited speaker to be considered for publication in AJP-Lung.

Rory Morty, PhD                                                      Sadis Matalon, PhD

Deputy Editor                                                           Editor in Chief

2015 Hermann Rahn Award Winners

AJP-Lung would like to the congratulate the following winners of the 2015 Hermann Rahn Awards, in honor of the 36th APS President (1963-1964), a leader in the field of respiration physiology.

Nektarios Barabutis - Old Dominion University

Alicia Rizzo- University of Illinois

Karthik Suresh- Johns Hopkins University

These outstanding scientists will receive a $250 award and will be recognized during the Respiration Dinner at Experimental Biology 2016.

 

2015 Publication Satistics

According to the 2015 statistics, AJP-Lung has continued to demonstrate that we publish the best research papers in the lung community. 

Monthly, The American Physiological Society recognizes the “best of the best” articles among all of it’s peer-reviewed journals.  Each month’s 10 selections can be viewed online  (http://apsselect.physiology.org/).  AJP-Lung is proud to have had their articles selected 13 times in 2015.  Considering that we are one of the smaller APS journals, this is a  huge honor for us and proves that we are indeed attracting and publishing the very best articles.  See below.

We have also learned that our journal has 3 of the most highly cited APS manuscripts for 2015.  We would like to congratulate all the authors below for this achievement. 

Thank you for always submitting your best work to AJP-Lung!

Reflection on the editorial process

The engine of high quality peer review fuels authors’ careers and prestige, successful applications for future research support, and ultimately moves forward the field. The associate editor (AED) of a scientific journal is therefore entrusted with the important responsibility of ensuring high quality peer review of manuscripts submitted to the respective journal. There is an expectation that the AEDs will carefully choose the reviewers that will provide accurate technical appraisal of the work. This is especially important when faced with increasing multidisciplinary scientific reports. The AEDs should themselves appraise the manuscript while balancing reviewers’ comments and communicate clearly and timely what additional work is reasonably necessary to elevate the report to be accepted for publication, or why the work may not be suited for the respective journal. In this age of juggling multiple responsibilities during an ever-diminishing available time, there is a risk of erosion of the quality of work that the AED is expected to do. All too often, as authors or reviewers of manuscripts, we note that AED decisions are the rubberstamp of increasingly frustrated or hurried reviewers, or they follow the path of least resistance to a quick and not necessarily fair decision. Such habits erode the trust in the effectiveness of the current peer review processes and threaten the engine of the scientific progress. Our editorial team at AJP-Lung is striving to abide by the important principles of high quality peer review. We believe that this purposeful work is linked to the increase in the number of manuscripts we are receiving for peer review and will translate in the progress of our field.

Irina Petrache, MD

Associate Editor, AJP Lung

The APS AuthorChoice Program

The APS AuthorChoice program was developed to allow researcher authors the ability to provide immediate, open and free access to their work without the standard 12-month embargo that applies to subscription access.

The fee for research articles is $2,000 (plus color fees, if applicable) and for review articles, $3,000. Articles published with the AuthorChoice option for open and free access are covered by the Creative Commons Attributions license (CC BY) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/), under which all are eligible for reuse and distribution under the condition that the original work published by APS must be cited.

Additional information can be found here:   FAQ

APSselect February 2016

AJP-Lung would like to congratulation Dr. Olave and colleagues on being selected as a APSselect article for February 2016.  You can read this outstanding article by clicking here:  Regulation of Alveolar Septation by MicroRNA-489.

New in 2016- *****No Submission Fees***

AJP-Lung no longer charges submission fees. Send us your best work, today!

Respiration Section Banquet At EB2016 - ***DEADLINE EXTENDED 2/15/16***

Dear Respiration Section Members,

The website for purchasing tickets for the Respiration Section Banquet  at Experimental Biology in San Diego is now live (see below)! The dinner will take place on  Monday,  April 4 starting at 6:30 pm at Maritime Museum. Tickets to the Respiration Section Banquet  is quite popular and sells out very quickly.

***DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 2/15/16*** Don’t hesitate! Buy your tickets today!

Thanks to those  who have already purchased tickets.  For USA Residents, your tickets will be mailed out around the first week of March.  For International Ticket Holders, you will pick up your tickets onsite.  An email will be sent to you around the first week of March with details on where to pick up your tickets at EB16.

Please click on the link below to purchase your tickets today.

Respiration Section Banquet



Best regards,

Ann Marie Bocus
Sections Coordinator

AJP-Lung Submissions Rise

We would like to thank all of our contributors in 2015. Our submissions  have increased over 20% from 2014.   We were, in fact, one of the few APS journals to show growth.

Thank you for your submissions.

The journal title is			AJP-Lung
Published research pages to date are			2361
Published editorial pages to date are			407
Projected total pages for 2015 are			2768
The page cap is			2400
Pages (over)/under cap are			(368)
	# Research Manuscripts recv thru 4Q 2015	# Research Manuscripts recv thru 4Q 2014	YTD Change No.	YTD Change %
AJP-Cell	319	374	-55	-15%
AJP-Endo	525	613	-88	-14%
AJP-GI&L	419	436	-17	-4%
AJP-Heart	852	833	19	2%
AJP-Regu	496	480	16	3%
AJP-Renal	462	518	-56	-11%
AJP-Lung	426	356	70	20%
Total AJP	3,499	3,610	-111	-3%

New insights into the complex role of estrogen in influenza

In the recent 2009 H1N1 pandemic young adult women experienced greater mortality than age-matched men. Murine models show worse outcomes in adult females compared to males. So estrogen is bad for influenza, right? Not so fast! In a recent AJP Lung paper that has garnered media attention (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160112093424.htm),  Dr. Sabra Klein and colleagues report that estrogen or compounds with estrogen-like activity actually reduce influenza virus replication in primary human nasal epithelial cells—but only in those from female, not male, donors. The effect is mediated through the 2nd genomic estrogen receptor, ER-beta, since neither of the other two ER receptors (ER-alpha or GPR30) were expressed in the nasal epithelial cells, and an ER antagonist could block estrogen’s effects. Transcriptome profiling showed marked down-regulation of zinc-finger proteins, an intriguing clue to possible molecular mechanisms for both the anti-proliferative effect and the sex selectivity . This work expands on past studies from the Klein lab showing that pharmacologic or high levels of estrogen can have beneficial effects on influenza outcome in mouse models, while recognizing that normal low levels may have paradoxical pro-inflammatory or harmful effects. The biphasic nature of hormone effects is well known, and these data are a fascinating addition to the important role of sex hormones in modulating outcomes in infectious disease.

To find out more about this interesting study, please check out the full text of this article. It is available for free on the AJP-Lung website, even for those with no subscription to APS journals:
http://ajplung.physiology.org/content/early/2015/12/17/ajplung.00398.2015

Dr. Lester Kobzik