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Latest News – Wednesday 13 January 2010
We have sad news today. We have just learnt that our friend and colleague Gary Bokoch died on Sunday, 10th of January 2010. Our thoughts are with Gary’s family, friends, and the members of his lab. Currently, we have not much additional information, except that Gary’s family suggested any donations in Gary's memory to be made to the American Heart Association (donate.americanheart.org) or the National Kidney Foundation (www.kidney.org/support), instead of flowers.
Gary was Professor of Immunology and Microbial Science at the Scripps Research Institute, working on signal transduction via Rho family GTPases. Gary was interested in the signalling mechanisms controlling Rho GTPases and their target proteins, and studied their effects on the cytoskeleton, the neutrophil NADPH oxidase, and leukocyte chemotaxis. Seminal studies were on the regulation of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase by Rac2, on PAK as a key effector of Rac, and on GEF-H1 as a PAK substrate. His work has provided us with important new insights into the regulation of the inflammatory response.
Friday 27th November 2009
The final programme for the European Phagocyte Workshop 2010 in Bari, Italy (24–27 Feb), including the list of talks selected from abstracts, is now available for download under the Workshop 2010 tab.
Tuesday 24th November 2009
Karl-Heinz Krause from the University of Geneva has a position available for a PhD student. Please see under the Jobs tab for details.
Wednesday 18th November 2009
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As you all know, the European Phagocyte Workshop 2010 will take place in Bari, Italy, 24 – 27th February, during the 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation. This year’s workshop organizers, Marco Cassatella and Silvano Sozzani, have received a staggering number of abstracts, so we can all look forward to a very lively meeting. For more information, please click on the Workshop 2010 tab.
Also, Marco Cassatella has a position available for a post doc in his lab in Verona. Please see under the Jobs tab for details.
Regards, Heidi
What is Phagocytes.net?
Phagocytes.net exists to facilitate interaction between research groups in the field of phagocyte biology, mainly by listing phagocyte research groups in Europe, events, and job vacancies. The site is hosted by some of the regulars of the Phagocyte Workshop at the annual meeting of the European Society of Clinical Investigation which is held each spring in a different European country. We’re a mix of groups, ranging from basic to clinical research labs and working on anything from phagocyte development over phagocyte signalling or cell biology to the pathogenesis and treatment of phagocyte-related diseases. Most of us are neutrophil fans, but don’t let that put you off if you prefer monocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, basophils, mast cells or dendritic cells, the site should be useful for all of us.
Editors:
Heidi Welch - Babraham Institute
Attila Mocsai - Semmelweis University