Scholarship available to attend international pulmonary meeting in Germany: Nominations Due

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

Nominations due by June 21, 2017

Editor in Chief elect of AJP-Lung, Dr. Rory Morty, heads 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 is one of the best pulmonary meetings in the world

We feel that trainees and junior faculty will benefit greatly by attending this meeting to be  held in Rauischholzhausen, Germany July 12-14, 2017.  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 meeting.  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 elect                                                Editor in Chief

APS Select May 2017

We would like to congratulate Dr. O'Neill and his colleagues for having their most recent paper recognized by APS to be one of the best recently published articles in physiological research, this month.

You can read their work here:

The circadian protein BMAL1 in myeloid cells is a negative regulator of allergic asthma

Congratulations to the 2016 Paper of the Year Award Winners

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2016 winners of AJP-Lung's Paper of the Year.  Each will receive $500 and Certificate.

Best Research Paper by a Junior Investigator 

 Dr. Roman Grothausmann

 Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2017 Feb 1;312(2):L243-L257. Epub 2016 Dec 2. Digital 3Dreconstructions using histological serial sections of lung tissue including thealveolar capillary network. Grothausmann, R., Knudsen L, Ochs M, Mühlfeld C); PMID: 27913424

 

 

Best Research Paper by a Senior Investigator

 Dr. Dean Sheppard

         Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. January 1, 2017 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00428.2016. Transforming growth factor-β playsdivergent roles in modulating vascular remodeling, inflammation, and pulmonaryfibrosis in a murine model of scleroderma.Kazuyuki Tsujino, Nilgun Isik Reed, Amha Atakilit, Xin Ren, Dean Sheppard

 

 

AJP-Lung Highlights of 2016 Presentation

Please see the updated PowerPoint Presentation below, We are proud of our accomplishments made in the past year at AJP-Lung...

Matalon PPTX Experimental Bio 2017 to Be Posted in Web[1] by ajplung on Scribd

AJP-Lung welcomes our new Editor in Chief, January 1, 2018

AJP-Lung first quarter submissions are up!

We just received our first quarter numbers for 2017 and are pleased to tell you that AJP-Lung had a 7% increase in submissions over our 1st quarter 2016 (which was our banner year).  Please keep submitting your best work to us!

AJP-Lung Highlights of 2016

Dr. Matalon presented the following highlights of AJP-Lung at the Publications meeting in March 2017.  We are very proud to share them with you.




AJP-Lung Matalon 3-21-2017 by ajplung on Scribd

APS Select March 2017

Congratulations go to Dr, Palumbo and collelagues for their recent pick as an APS Select paper for March 2017.

You can read this important paper here :

Dysregulated Nox4 ubiquitination contributes to redox imbalance and age-related severity of acute lung injury

Heterogeneity of airway wall dimensions in humans: a critical determinant of lung function in asthmatics and non-asthmatics

Airway remodeling is a cardinal feature of diseases such as asthma. Previous measurements and modeling of the airways of non-asthmatics vs. asthmatics have shown that increased airway smooth muscle contributes substantially to remodeling and the resultant narrowing of the airway lumen. However, the assumption in models based on lung morphometry is that narrowing occurs proportionately, i.e. homogenously along the branches of the bronchial tree. In this elegant modeling paper based on measurements of airway lumens from asthmatics vs. non-asthmatics, Pascoe et al. demonstrate for the first time that there is profound heterogeneity in the extent of remodeling along the different branches of the bronchial tree, with small airways contributing particularly to such heterogeneity. The predicted physiological importance of this heterogeneity in airwaywall dimensions of non-asthmatics and asthmatics lies in their contribution to airway hyperresponsiveness (the model predicting a leftward shift in the likely dose response to bronchoconstrictor agonist). Here, closure of small airways is predicted, as is known to occur in obstructive airway disease. However, what is interesting is that a disproportionate or greater heterogeneity in asthmatic airways does not necessarily predict AHR, but it is the increase in airway wall dimensions that does. The appeal of such elegant modeling studies in human lungs of asthmatics vs. non-asthmatics lies in emphasizing the need for more mechanistic studies on remodeling, particularly of the small airways that contribute to premature closure and obstructive disease, and importantly in the need for improved imaging techniques of the small airways, particularly under standardized conditions that would allow for accurate and sensitive assessment of the extent of airway remodeling, its changes with time (e.g. in aging or asthma in the elderly) or responsiveness to therapies.

Y.S. Prakash
Deputy Editor

Link to the manuscript ; Pascone, CD et al...

Dysregulated Nox4 ubiquitination contributes to redox imbalance and age- 2 related severity of acute lung injury

Why do we age?  In a previous paper, Dr. Hecker demonstrated that imbalance among reactive species, contributed by NOX4 and antioxidant defenses, is a major factor in aging.  In this paper, Dr. Hecker demonstrated that aged mice develop more severe lung injury than younger mice when given LPS and then ventilated (a double hit model of injury).  This mimics what is observed in the clinic, i.e. older people are at a higher risk of ARDS than younger people after trauma.  Dr. Hecker followed up this in vivo observations with in studies on senescent microvascular cells and showed that they suffered significantly higher injury than young endothelial cells when exposed to LPS.  Furthermore, they demonstrated that NOX4 was upregulated in both old (senescent)  and young endothelial cells but in senescent endothelial cells NOX4 was not ubiquinated and thus continue to produce reactive species.  This findings increase our understanding of why we age.  Furthermore, they point out that we all should eat more antioxidants or take more vitamin C

Sadis Matalon

Click here for full paper  http://ajplung.physiology.org/content/early/2017/01/03/ajplung.00305.2016

Respiration Section Banquet at Experimental Biology

Dear Respiration Section Members,

The website for purchasing tickets for the Respiration Section Banquet  at Experimental Biology in Chicago, IL is  now live. The dinner will take place on  Monday,  April 24, 2017 from  7:30- 9:30 pm onboard the Odyssey Cruise. Tickets to the Respiration Section Banquet  is quite popular and sells out very quickly. For more information about the banquet, please click on this link http://www.the-aps.org/mm/hp/Audiences/Sections/banquets/Respiration-Section-Banquet.pdf .

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 EB17.

Please click on the link below to purchase your tickets today.  Banquet Tickets WILL NOT be sold on board so don’t hesitate, purchase your tickets today.

https://store.the-aps.org/?format=banquethttps://store.the-aps.org/?format=banquet

Ann Marie Bocus
Sections Administrator

APS-Select January 2016

AJP-Lung is proud to announce that  Dr. Grothausmann and colleagues have had their paper chosen for APSselect this month.

Click on the title to read this exciting study!

Digital 3D reconstructions using histological serial sections of lung tissue including the alveolar capillary network

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