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L A B M E M B E R S
LABORATORY MEETING. Lab meetings are held once a week, usually on Fridays. Laboratory data for the week are presented from all projects as well as a review of the overall progress of a single project. Usually one project is discussed per week.
JOURNAL CLUB. is held every Tuesday. Lab members present a recent article in their area of interest. Laboratory meetings are held every Friday.
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Alaa S. Awad, M.D.
RESEARCH FOCUS. Alaa is interested in the mechanisms by which adenosine 2A agonists reduce injury associated with diabetic nephropathy. Alaa has established rat and mouse models of diabetic nephropathy and is studying effects of adenosine 2a agonists on isolated podocytes cultured in vitro. |
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Liping Huang Liping is the longest standing member of Dr. Okusa's laboratory and is well versed with all procedures including all rodent surgical procedures, cell culture, molecular biology and immunohistochemical methods. She supervises progress of all projects and assists students and fellows on laboratory methods. |
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Li Li, M.D., Ph.D. Li Li is an immunologist by training and is interested in the innate and adaptive response of the kidney to ischemia-reperfusion injury and transplantation. She works both on cultured immune cells as well as in animal models of ischemia-reperfusion and transplantation. Currently Li Li is studying the role of NKT cells, dendritic cells and macrophage subtypes following kidney reperfusion injury and kidney transplantation. |
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Amy Vergis, M.S. Amy is well versed in cell culture methods and immunohistochemical methods and has expertise using the Zeiss LSM5010 laser scanning confocal microscope as well as the Zeiss Apotome microscope. |
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Hong Ye Hong is an expert in animal surgical methods. Her current work focuses on the role of sphingolipids in acute renal failure. She supervises and instructs fellows and students in animal surgical methods. |
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Aman Bajwa, Ph.D.
Dr. Bajwa received her BS and Ph.D. at the Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently interested in the role of sphingosine 1 phosphate receptors in cell survival and injury. These receptors participate in different functions that are mediated through S1P receptor subtypes. Dominant negative constructs, siRNA as well as in vivo studies using genetically modified mice are used to determine receptor function in cellular function.
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Gilbert (Bert) Kinsey, Pharm. D., Ph.D. Dr. Kinsey received his Ph.D. from Medical University of South Carolina. He is currently interested in adaptive immunity in acute kidney injury. He is applying immunological principles to both both animal models of ischemia-reperfusion injury and cultured cell experiments. He is currently funded by a T32 NIH training grant. |
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Konstantine Khutsishvili, M.D. Dr. Khutsishvili, received his MD from Georgia (country) and practiced as a surgeon. His work is now focused on kidney transplantation as a model to understand the immune response to alloantigens and therapeutic interventions to block delayed graft function and acute rejection. |
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Liping Huang's 15th Year Lab Dinner August 20, 2006 Charlottesville, VA |
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Administrative Assistant:
Emily Searcy
email: egs6n@virginia.edu
phone: 434.924.2187
Collaborators:
University of Virginia
Joel Linden, Kevin Lynch, Sun-Sang J. Sung , Ed Rose, Peter Lobo, W. Kline Bolton, Timothy Macdonald and Vic Engelhard
Case Western Reserve
John Sedor