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Honoring young investigators

Benefits site gets a fresh new look By Greg Rienzi

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he Office of Human Resources wants Johns Hopkins employees to know their benefits. The picture just got a lot clearer. The office went live today with a greatly revamped benefits page and a new HR Facebook page that will feaUpdated, ture a wealth of benstreamlined efits information. An updated Total page offers Rewards statement will be available on user-friendly Wednesday. Heidi Conway, information senior director of benefits and Human Resources Shared Services, said that the previous Web site had become outdated and needed to become more userfriendly. The site was last fine-tuned five years ago. “We wanted an updated, streamlined look that is consistent with the university brand, as well as offering a positive experience for the user,” Conway said. “We’re really excited about the changes. We think the new site offers much easier navigation, with a logical flow for users to find information on our benefits, news and events.” The benefits home page includes a news feed and upcoming events listing, such as when a representative of a mutual fund brokerage firm will be on campus for one-on-one meetings. The new site features a top-oriented toolbar of tabs that include Health and Life, Wellness, Retirement, Tuition Assistance, Life Events, Your Resources and Other Benefits. In the Life Events section, employees can examine issues to consider, or actions to take, when adding a child or getting married. The pages offer descriptions of each benefit—which have all been rewritten for consistency and clarity—and relevant links to forms. The Health and Life section, for example, has easyto-find links to all medical and dental

Doctoral candidates Melanie Issigonis and Xuting Rebecca Sheng with their adviser, Erika Matunis.

School of Medicine’s 33rd annual celebration to be held Thursday By Audrey Huang

Johns Hopkins Medicine

t’s that time of year again, when the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine celebrates all the young investigators who help power its research enterprise. This year’s event honors 12 graduate students and six postdoctoral fellows. The program will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, in the Mountcastle Auditorium and will be followed by a

poster presentation and reception in the Greenhouse Café. “This year’s winners are an outstanding group of young scientists,” says Alex Kolodkin, an associate professor of neuroscience and co-chair of the award committee. “We had a lot of stellar appliContinued on page 6

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method to quickly determine whether potentially harmful microbes are resistant to certain drugs has been named the year’s top invention at the Applied Physics Laboratory. The winner was chosen from the 118 inventions reported by 218 APL staff members and collaborators in 2009. An independent panel of 30 representatives

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from industry, the high-tech sector and patent law selected the top invention based on its benefit to society, improvement over existing technology and commercial potential. Norma Lee Todd, acting director of Technology Transfer at APL, and Bharat Doshi, head of APL’s Milton Eisenhower Research Center, presented trophies and cash awards to the inventors during the Laboratory’s 11th annual Invention of the Year ceremony, held April 8 on the APL campus. Invented by APL researchers Plamen

Demirev, Miquel Antoine, Andrew Feldman, Nathan Hagan and Jeffrey Lin, the IsoMS-Drug-Array uses mass spectrometry to determine—in a fraction of the time required by current technologies—whether a microorganism is susceptible or resistant to one or more drugs. The method requires no prior identification or characterization of the organism; in fact, it can simultaneously characterize and identify the organism and determine its drug suscepContinued on page 10

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University of Konstanz and SPH establish CAAT-Europe

he University of Konstanz in Germany and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have jointly established the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing–Europe in an effort to promote better coordination in toxicity testing. The new center, modeled after the Bloomberg School’s Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, will conduct scientific research to find new methods to replace the use of laboratory animals in studies, reduce the number of animals needed for research and refine necessary tests to eliminate the pain and distress of animals in research. CAAT-EU held an inauguration ceremony on March 30 in Konstanz. Marcel Leist, a professor at the University of Konstanz, will lead CAAT-EU along with Thomas Hartung, the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Professor and Chair for Evidence-based Toxicology, and director of CAAT, at the Bloomberg School. Hartung also holds an appointment at the University of Konstanz.

“As a transatlantic cooperation center, CAAT-EU will unite its activities in the field of alternatives and toxicology at the University of Konstanz and combine them strategically with the activities of the Bloomberg School’s CAAT in the U.S.,” Leist said. The CAAT-EU board of directors includes members of EuroGroup for Animals, an umbrella organization of more than 30 animal protection organizations, and ECOPA, the European consensus platform for alternative methods, made up of representatives of universities, industry, animal protection organizations and governments. CAAT was founded at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1981 as an academic, science-based center to provide a better, safer, more humane future for people and animals. The University of Konstanz has more than 20 years of experience in studying alternatives to animal research. CAAT-EU will collaborate with CAAT to develop a worldwide standard for chemical testing.

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“The JHU portion of benefits is significant and is often overlooked, misunderstood or not known by the employee,” Conway said. “The real value of the statement is to understand the full benefits offering and the value you receive in addition to your salary. We want to educate people along those lines.” The Johns Hopkins HR Facebook page will offer announcements, information on events and relevant information, such as how health care reform impacts Johns Hopkins. The site also allows for feedback and engagement with benefits staff. For more information, go to http://benefits .jhu.edu. To view the Facebook page, go to www.facebook.com and search for “Johns Hopkins University Human Resources.” G

Continued from page 1 plans, and other information related to disability, flexible spending accounts, insurance options and other topics. The site will include a slightly updated Total Rewards statement for employees to get the full picture of compensation. The statement, an annual personalized look at a person’s benefits, shows what JHU pays and what the employee pays in terms of health care, financial protection, retirement plans, tuition assistance and other benefits.

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he Department of History, the Center for Africana Studies and the Center for Educational Resources of the Sheridan Libraries will co-sponsor today a presentation by Trevor Griffey, co-founder of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. Griffey, a historian at the University of Washington, is the project coordinator of an online public history archive chronicling the civil rights and labor history of the greater Seattle area. The archive contains everything from photos and fliers to oral histories and news articles, and is being used by scholars and students from the university level to elementary schools. The event takes place at 1 p.m. today, April 12, in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall, Homewood campus. To attend, contact Cheryl Wagner at cwagner@jhu.edu or 410-516-7181.

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asit Piromya, foreign minister of Thailand, will speak at SAIS at 10 a.m. today, April 12. Piromya, who is in Washington, D.C., to attend the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by President Barack Obama, will offer his perspectives on the political situation and economic developments in Thailand. The event will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to the SAIS Southeast Asia Studies Program at 202-663-5837 or www .sais-jhu.edu/academics/regional-studies/ southeastasia/events/index.htm. SAIS also will host a live webcast of the event, accessible at www.sais-jhu.edu.

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Neha Deshpande wins prestigious Truman Scholarship B y A m y L u n d ay

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eha Deshpande, a Johns Hopkins University student from Monmouth Junction, N.J., is one of 60 students from 54 U.S. colleges and universities to be named a 2010 Truman Scholar. The prestigious award is given each year by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation to extraordinary undergraduates in their third year of college who are committed to careers in public service. Deshpande, 20, will earn her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in French cultural studies from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences on May 27, after three years of undergraduate study. The Truman Scholarship will provide Deshpande up to $30,000 for graduate study and eligibility for priority admission and supplemental financial aid at premier graduate institutions. The assistance from the Truman Foundation will help Deshpande pursue a medical degree specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, and maternal and fetal medicine. She plans to delay medical school for a year to take full advantage of the Truman Foundation’s offerings. This summer, she will be teaching biology for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Then she will join the Johns Hopkins Transplant Outcomes Research Group as a part of the yearlong Truman-Albright Fellows Program, which selects 24 scholars each year for entry-level positions in public service, research and educational organizations. “It is the people you serve and take the time to understand who will ultimately define your leadership and expertise as a physician,” Deshpande said. “When I enter public service, I hope to address the racial and ethnic health disparities in our nation by focusing on the importance of preventive health care. Through this Truman-Albright Fellows Program, I hope to contribute to health disparities research in a more meaningful way before I begin my medical education.” Since her freshman year on the Homewood campus, Deshpande has participated in a hands-on clinical neonatology practicum for 70 hours each semester at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Labor & Delivery Suite, where she “witnessed heartbreakingly high incidences of teen pregnancy, substance abuse and out-ofwedlock births.” Through the university’s Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowship program, Deshpande designed a pilot study comparing the maternal and neonatal health of mother-infant pairs in Baltimore with 70 similar pairs in Pune, India. She spent her 2009 winter intersession at Pune’s King Edward Memorial Hospital, where she helped diagnose, treat and provide follow-up care to patients from the surrounding villages and slums. Deshpande found that the Indian babies had a lower mean gestational age and lower mean birth weight, and were more likely to be male because of the increasing number of abortions for female pregnancies. Interestingly, she said, the rates of preterm birth were the same in both newborn cohorts, and the Indian mothers were more likely to have pre-eclampsia during their pregnancies. Deshpande says she hopes to publish her results from this comparative study in The Journal of Perinatology. “My clinical experiences have inspired me to pursue a career in public service that addresses the needs of minority and underprivileged populations with limited health care access,” Deshpande said. “I have learned that a successful health system lies on the shoulders of both physicians and policy-makers. Becoming a Truman Scholar will help me bridge this gap between medicine and politics and allow me to translate my experiences and knowledge of the health

Neha Deshpande, who is earning her degree in three years, will take part in a yearlong Truman-Albright Fellows Program before attending medical school.

care sciences to achieve cost-effective strategies in health care and prevention.” Deshpande describes a field trip in seventh grade to a neonatal intensive care unit as the experience that shaped her life’s mission “to work toward a day when all babies will be born healthy and to women who are prepared for the responsibilities of motherhood.” Following the field trip, she began volunteering with her local March of Dimes office and has been working with the organization ever since. After being a volunteer for nine years, Deshpande was elected as the 2009–2010 Award National Youth Chair, and she currently reprerecipients sents more than 1 million youth volunteers plan careers across the country and designs national camin public paigns in health education, advocacy and fund service raising. Deshpande also worked with March of Dimes Global Programs to found a Global Volunteer Youth Leadership Network on Maternal and Infant Health, and in October 2009, she traveled to New Delhi to speak about the power of youth in global public health at the fourth International Birth Defects and Disabilities Conference in the Developing World. Having immigrated to the United States from Mumbai in India with her parents when she was 3 years old, Deshpande says she has a personal connection to her passion for community service. “It was a life-altering risk that my parents had come to a country with only a few suitcases and not even enough money to afford a plane ticket back home,” Deshpande said. “I spent my childhood growing up in a scanty, one-bedroom apartment in a low-income, crime-stricken neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. The struggles of my family have given me humility, kindness, gratitude and, most importantly, compassion for other people.” Outside her studies, Deshpande is the co-captain of JOSH, Homewood’s all-girl, nationally competitive nine-member fusion dance team. This year, JOSH launched the Greater Baltimore Dance Project, performing in Baltimore’s public schools and for special-needs programs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Ronald McDonald House to promote dancing as a way to improve the mental, social and emotional health of children in the Baltimore community. Deshpande is also president and founder of the Johns Hopkins Women’s Pre-Health Leadership Society, a society for female undergraduates who have demonstrated academic achievement, commitment to community service and a passion in pre-health studies. She is coordinating the first Wom-

en’s Pre-Health Leadership Conference at Johns Hopkins, which will take place in May and is anticipated to become an annual event. Truman Scholars receive leadership train-

ing, career and graduate school counseling, and access to special internship opportunities within the federal government. Truman Scholars are chosen by judges looking for leadership potential, intellectual ability and the likelihood that a candidate will make a difference in the world. They must be U.S. citizens, have outstanding communication skills and be in the top quarter of their classes. The foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the federal memorial to America’s 33rd president. This year’s winners will meet May 25 for a leadership development program at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and receive their awards in a special ceremony at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., on May 30. Thirteen Johns Hopkins undergraduates— including six in the past six years—have earned the honor since the first in 1984. Many of the scholars have been coached by John Bader, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the Krieger School and national scholarships adviser. “Neha’s amazing resume might obscure what a fabulous person she is— warm, engaging and ridiculously modest,” Bader said. “She joins a remarkable group of recent winners, which says as much about her as it does about our university, which nurtures gifted public servants that the world needs so desperately.”

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Gregg Semenza named Canada Gairdner Award winner

Gregg Semenza

By Audrey Huang

Johns Hopkins Medicine

regg Semenza, director of the Vascular Biology program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and a member of the McKusickNathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, is one of seven recipients of the 2010 Canada Gairdner Awards. Canada’s only international science prizes, they are among the world’s most prestigious medical research awards. The awards, each of which comes with a $100,000 cash prize, will be presented in October. John Dirks, president and scientific director of the Gairdner Foundation, said, “These awards pay tribute to the passion, dedication and vision that drive these extraordinary individuals to push the boundaries of medical science.” Semenza’s award is for identifying how cells in the body monitor and respond to changes in oxygen levels. “I am honored to receive such recognition,” Semenza said. “As anyone who has tried to hold their breath for long knows,

the body needs a constant supply of oxygen. We were very fortunate to discover a protein that controls how oxygen is delivered to, and used by, every cell in the body. Our hope is that this discovery will lead to new therapies for cancer, cardiovascular disease and other life-threatening illnesses.” One of today’s pre-eminent researchers on the molecular mechanisms of oxygen regulation, Semenza has led the field in uncovering how cells adapt to changing oxygen levels. He has identified and studied the HIF-1 (hypoxia-inducible factor 1) protein, which controls genes in response to changes in oxygen availability. HIF-1 controls genes involved in adaptation to low oxygen—genes that control energy manufacture, generation of new red blood cells and the growth of new blood vessels. He currently is studying the role of HIF-1 in cancer, ischemia and chronic lung disease, the most common causes of mortality in the U.S. population. Semenza received his medical degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and did his residency in pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center and postdoctoral research in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins. On the faculty at Johns Hopkins since 1990, he has authored more than 250 research articles and several book chapters and has been cited more than 30,000 times. He sits on the editorial boards of several scientific publications. Among the awards he has received are the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics, the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation’s Jean and Nicholas Leone Award, the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award and the Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award in Biomedical Science. He was recently elected to the Association of American Physicians. “We are extremely proud that Gregg is being recognized for this discovery that he made early in his career at Hopkins,” said Chi V. Dang, vice dean for research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “The scientific contributions he has made since, along with his leadership at the Institute for Cell Engineering, are invaluable.”

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More benefits are found from mild exercise in critically ill Sedation cut back so patients can exercise, which speeds recovery B y D av i d M a r c h

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new report from critical care experts at Johns Hopkins shows that physicians can cut back by half their use of prescription sedatives so that critically ill patients can be alert and awake to exercise more. Curtailing use of the drowsiness-inducing medications not only allows patients in the intensive care unit to participate in mild exercise, which is known to reduce muscle weakness linked to long periods of bed rest, but also reduces bouts of delirium and hallucinations and speeds up ICU recovery times by as much as two to three days, the paper concludes. The experts say that mild exercise, with sessions varying from 30 minutes to 45 minutes, should be performed by patients under the careful guidance of specially trained physical and occupational therapists, and it can include any combination of leg or arm movements while lying flat in bed, sitting up or standing, or even walking slowly in the corridors of the ICU. The team has since evaluated a number of additional physical rehabilitation therapies, such as cycling in bed using a specially designed peddling device, or stimulating contractions of the leg muscles with overlying electrical pads. Patients can often exercise while still attached to life support equipment, such as a mechanical ventilator that helps them breathe, the group shows. In its latest exercise report, published in the journal Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation online April 9, the Johns Hopkins team closely monitored the progress of 57 patients admitted in 2007 to The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s medical intensive care unit, or MICU. Their treatment encompassed

794 days spent in the unit. Members of the MICU team checked the patients’ records daily for several months before and after the physical rehabilitation project began. Each patient was mechanically ventilated for at least four days. Most patients did not have more than one exercising session before the enhanced exercise plan started, while more than a half-dozen physical therapy sessions in the MICU were commonplace after the plan’s implementation. “Our work challenges physicians to rethink how they treat critically ill patients and shows the downstream benefits of early mobilization exercises,” says critical care specialist Dale Needham, who spearheaded the project. “Our patients keep telling us that they do not want to be confined to their beds; they want to be awake, alert and moving, and engaged participants in their recovery,” says Needham, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Patients are not afraid of exercising while they are in the ICU, and they are embracing this new approach to their care. It actually motivates them to get well and reminds them that they have a life outside the four walls surrounding their hospital beds.” Needham’s latest findings contribute to his team’s other research in the past three years, demonstrating in more than 500 patients how early physical rehabilitation and mild exercise helped ICU patients move about, sit and stand up. He says patients can lose as much as 5 percent per week of leg muscle mass when confined to bed rest. In the new report, Needham and colleagues found that the use of drowsinesscausing benzodiazepines declined to only 26 percent of patient days spent in the MICU in the four months following introduction of early mobilization practices, compared to 50 percent of patient days in the three months leading up to the project. Daily doses dropped even further. Half the patients were given more than 47 milligrams of midazolam and 71 milligrams of morphine before early exercising was emphasized; after exercising

became more widespread, half needed less than 15 milligrams of midazolam and 24 milligrams of morphine. Daily episodes of delirium, when a patient may hallucinate, be unable to think straight or simply be unaware of his surroundings, were sharply curtailed. Before exercising began, ICU patients were spending as little as 21 percent of all patient days without such disturbances, but this grew to 53 percent clear-thinking days afterward. Delirium is known to occur in ICU patients who have been heavily sedated, prolonging their ICU stay and recovery. Overall time spent in intensive care and in the hospital also dropped after exercising was promoted, by 2.1 days and 3.1 days, respectively. And with patients recovering faster, the Johns Hopkins MICU was able to treat 20 percent more patients even though its capacity, at 16 beds, remained the same. Critical care expert Eddy Fan, a member of the project team and an instructor at Johns Hopkins, says that physicians are changing their perspective on prolonged bed rest with heavy sedation and its long-term consequences to patient health. Fan says that developing appropriate physical therapy regimens involves careful planning and coordination among all members of the critical care team, including physicians, nurses and respiratory, physical and occupational therapists. He notes that it can take an hour to get a patient ready to perform and finish certain exercises, such as walking short distances, and that patient comfort and safety must be monitored throughout the activity. Launching this kind of early physical medicine and rehabilitation program requires serious commitment. Fan says that the Johns Hopkins initiative involved nearly 150 hospital physicians and staff in meetings about early mobilization of patients, including 16 seminars with MICU nurses on sedation alone, as well as presentations about former ICU patients’ problems with muscle weakness after their discharge.

“Things can change quickly in the ICU, but if the patient has the energy to exercise and vital signs are OK, and the staff are trained and confident in the type of activity to be performed, then it is in the patients’ best interest to get them moving,” Fan says. Needham says that long-term clinical studies of these treatment techniques are already under way; some critically ill patients are performing early-mobilization exercises and others less so or not at all. The goal of researchers, now that the immediate physical benefits have been shown, is to gauge if early rehabilitation therapy improves patients’ quality of life, such as their ability to stay active and mobile inside and outside the home, and to quantify any hospital cost savings accruing from the effort. Funding support for the report was provided by The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to Needham and Fan, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in this study were Radha Korupolu, Jennifer Zanni, Pranoti Pradhan, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Jeffrey Palmer and Roy Brower.

Related Web sites Dale Needham:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ pulmonary/faculty/division_ faculty/needham_dm.html

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ pulmonary/faculty/division_ faculty/fan_e.html

Eddy Fan:

Videos of Needham commenting and ICU patients practicing techniques in early mobility:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/oacis

www.archives-pmr.org

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Fatal injuries are increasing in older Americans, study finds B y A l i c i a S am u e l s

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he risk of dying from injuries is increasing for Americans ages 65 and older, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The report found significant increases in death rates from falls (up 42 percent), machinery (up 46 percent), motorcycle crashes (up 145 percent) and unintentional poisoning (up 34 percent). The results are published in the February issue of Injury Prevention and are also available on the journal’s Web site, http://injuryprevention .bmj.com. “Our findings reveal significant increases in death rates from several different injury causes,” said study co-author Susan P. Baker, a professor with the Center for Injury Research and Policy. “While the overall change in injury mortality among persons 65 and older was small, this study identifies important causes worthy of further investigation.” The overall change in injury mortality for individuals 65 and older during 2002–2006 was 3 percent. In contrast, the rate of deaths attributed to falls increased by at least 38 percent in all racial/ethnic groups, with the greatest increase seen in whites (45 percent). Significant declines occurred in the rate of deaths attributed to motor vehicle crashes, suffocation and suicide. “We know injuries are taking a toll on older adults,” said Grant Baldwin, director of the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention at the National Center for Injury

Prevention and Control, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “This research helps us to build upon our knowledge and translate science into effective programs and policies that prevent these injuries and minimize the consequences of injuries when they occur.” The study also looked at changes in emergency department visits and found that despite the significant increase in fatal falls, there has been no significant increase in fallrelated admissions among the study population. The authors speculate that this could be attributed to a trend in recent years to report the underlying cause of death as a fall. In addition, many elderly people are

now living longer with conditions that may predispose them to falls. “Alcohol is another contributing risk factor worthy of consideration,” added senior author Guoqing Hu, an associate professor of epidemiology and health statistics at Central South University in China. “Given the association between alcohol and injury, recent documented increases in alcohol problems among the elderly may be another partial explanation for the increase in severe falls.” Hu and Baker accessed data from the CDC Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, which provides data on deaths and hospital emergency department– treated injuries according to cause and

intent of injury. Its mortality data are based on annual data from the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics of the CDC; nonfatal injury data are based on annual nationally representative nonfatal injury data of the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System–All Injury Program operated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in collaboration with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Support for this research was provided by the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control through a grant to the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.

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or the eighth year in a row, a recordbreaking number of people—18,455— applied for undergraduate admission to the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering, a 14 percent increase over last year. At the same time, the university’s admissions rate fell to a record low: Only 20.4 percent of those applying for entry in fall 2010 were admitted. (The previous low was 24.3 percent for entry in fall 2007.) “Yes!” e-mails and envelopes went out to 3,274 high school seniors on April 4. Along with the 490 early decision admits from the fall, this makes for an admitted class of 3,764. The admissions picture today is much

different than it was in spring 2009, when 4,309 were offered admission to Johns Hopkins (a 27 percent admit rate). Colleges and universities across the country last year admitted more students and expected lower yields due to economic uncertainty, but the Homewood campus experienced a spike in enrollment to 1,350, or 115 students past the usual target mark of 1,235. John Latting, dean of undergraduate admissions, said, “The difference in the admit rate this year is accounted for by two factors: 2,331 more applications on the one hand and knowing that we brought in too many last year on the other, so we’re admitting fewer. That makes it a smaller numerator and larger denominator, which puts the squeeze on the percentage admitted.” Of those admitted to the class of 2014,

48 percent are women, and 19 percent are minorities (304 African-American, 387 Hispanic and 34 Native American). The median SAT scores were 730 in critical reading, 750 in math and 720 in writing. All but one state—South Dakota—is represented in the admitted class, with the students residing in 58 nations around the world. Thirty-eight percent of admitted students have been offered need-based grant funding at Johns Hopkins, up from 31 percent last year. Students from the United States were evaluated without regard to their ability to pay tuition. Seven percent (262) of the admitted students have parents who have never attended a four-year college, up from 5 percent (232) last year. Student responses need to be postmarked by May 1.

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Barry Wood Jr. Research Award. “And having a mentor like Sol Snyder makes doing experiments great fun. I’m lucky to have both—I believe these are the keys to my success.” Sen discovered a molecular signaling pathway that links free radical production and neuronal cell injury in many neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. This discovery may lead to the development of new therapies. For Catherine Weisz, a PhD candidate in neuroscience and recipient of the Alicia Showalter Reynolds Research Award, “the tremendous teaching abilities of my two advisers contributed to these discoveries.” Weisz discovered that a small population of type II neurons in the auditory system can transmit electrical information to the brain and, when exposed to really loud sound that causes hearing damage, the brain may be alerted to this trauma via these same type II neurons. Greg M. Delgoffe, a PhD candidate in immunology and recipient of a Paul Ehrlich Research Award, is another recipient who

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cants, and the decisions were incredibly difficult. While we single out these 18, Young Investigators’ Day really is a celebration of all of our trainees here at Hopkins.” For recipients, the annual celebration— now in its 33rd year—can be a motivator. “Young Investigators’ Day is a great thing to encourage graduate students and postdocs in their research,” says Wenqin Luo, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience and recipient of the A. McGehee Harvey Research Award. “Several of my friends won awards before me and always have been role models for me.” Luo, working in David Ginty’s lab, identified two previously elusive types of mechanosensory neurons, cells that mediate mechanical pain and touch sensation. The Young Investigators’ Day awards are named for former Johns Hopkins students and well-respected former faculty members

a.m. to 5 p.m. For Mette Strand Research Award recipient Jihye Yun, who completed the work for her doctorate in cellular and molecular medicine in Bert Vogelstein’s lab in December 2009, this was definitely true. “I cannot forget the moment, after years of work, when I discovered that GLUT1 is consistently up-regulated in cancer cells and probably helps them survive by bringing in glucose,” Yun says. “As soon as I saw the data, I shouted ‘great!’ over and over again. Fortunately, it was 2 a.m. on a Friday night, and there was nobody else in the lab; otherwise, they might have thought I was insane.” Xuting Rebecca Sheng, a PhD candidate in the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program working in Erika Matunis’ lab, had a similar experience. “One memorable moment was seeing an unexpected phenomenon for the first time and realizing that I am the only person who has ever observed it, even though it’s 9 p.m. and I’m still at work sitting in a dark room in the basement.” Sheng developed a new method to image living stem cells in the fruit fly

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longed periods of starvation and stillness, and identified a new protein critical for muscle cell growth and survival during hibernation, a finding that may play an important role in discovering therapies for muscle-wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy. Clara Bien, a PhD candidate in the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program and recipient of a Paul Ehrlich Research Award, also credits her colleagues. “I feel lucky to have done my graduate work here,” she says. “Peter Espenshade’s lab is an exciting and supportive place to work.” Bien characterized a protein that helps a disease-causing fungus infect and survive. She showed that blocking this protein’s function makes the fungus hypersensitive to drugs, suggesting that this protein may be a good target for drug design. Bae Gyo Jung Research Award recipient Saurabh Paliwal, who completed his doctoral work in biomedical engineering in Andre Levchenko’s lab in December 2009, drew from the greater Johns Hopkins community to take a systems biology approach using microfluidic “lab on a chip” technol-

Postdoctoral fellows Nilkantha Sen and Srini Subramaniam with their adviser, Sol Snyder, center.

Bert Vogelstein, Jihye Yun’s adviser; Victor Velculescu, Rebecca Leary’s adviser; Rebecca Leary; and Jihye Yun.

and are accompanied by a cash prize funded by friends, family and the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Society. For some recipients, the recognition has special meaning. “Receiving an award named for one of the pre-eminent biological chemists brings me great satisfaction in knowing that the goal of trying to make an impact on both biochemistry and infectious diseases is feasible,” says Rahul M. Kohli, a postdoctoral fellow in Jim Stivers’ lab in pharmacology and molecular sciences and recipient of the Albert Lehninger Research Award. Kohli, who knows firsthand the challenge of becoming both a physician and a biochemist, discovered how a class of mutagenic enzymes targets specific DNA sequences to enable the immune system to generate diverse antibodies that go on to fight pathogens. Xiaoyue Wang, a PhD candidate in biological chemistry and recipient of the Hans Joaquim Prochaska Award, has a connection to another prize: the Bae Gyo Jung Research Award. “For those who have left us before their time—including my classmate Bae Gyo Jung, who tragically passed away of cancer in 2006—these awards are a good way for us to remember and celebrate their lives.” Wang identified, while working in Craig Montell’s lab, a gene responsible for maintaining fly vision, a discovery that revealed a visual cycle previously known in humans but unrecognized in flies. Flies lacking the gene pdh develop conditions mimicking human retinal degeneration, establishing a system in which to study human vision defects and screen for therapeutics. For many young investigators, the success of their research comes not only with years of hard work but from having the support of colleagues. Eva Andres-Mateos, a postdoctoral fellow in medicine and recipient of the Helen B. Taussig Research Award, says, “My success is a consequence of teamwork between all the lab members in Dr. Ronald Cohn’s lab.” Andres-Mateos used hibernating squirrels to study how to maintain muscle despite pro-

testis. With this new tool she was able to discover two previously unknown processes that mediate stem cell regeneration, which contributes to our understanding of how tissue regenerates, a key to developing stem cell–based therapies in the future. The spotlight on Young Investigators’ Day shines on more than the awardees; their advisers get some credit, too. “The guidance I received The day from Mike Caterina is probably the single most celebrates important contributing factor to my project’s sucall medical cess,” says Tiffany Link, an MD/PhD candidate trainees in cellular and molecular medicine and recipient of at Johns the Michael A. Shanoff Research Award. “He is Hopkins such a great mentor. I learned so much, not just about the immediate experiment but generally about how to think about science.” Link discovered that immune cells lacking the TRPV2 protein are unable to ingest bacteria and other pathogens to stave off disease. And mice lacking TRPV2 are more susceptible to infection. Melanie Issigonis, a PhD candidate in the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program and recipient of a Paul Ehrlich Research Award, discovered how a niche can regulate two different stem cell populations in the fruit fly testis and how a single gene maintains the ratio of two stem cell pools. “By far, the largest contributing factors to my project’s success were the people around me—my mentor, Erika Matunis, and my wonderful lab mates. Erica is extremely supportive—she’s always there to cheer me on when experiments work and encourage me when they don’t.” “I always believed that having a good working environment helps me work at my maximum intellectual and physical potential,” says Nilkantha Sen, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience and recipient of the W.

ogy to discover new functions of the signaling protein MAPK in yeast mating-specific gene expression and gradient sensing. “My biomedical engineering training at Hopkins allowed me to work with, and to learn a wide range of skills from, collaborations in the Physics, Electrical Engineering and Biology departments, combining traditional biology to designing microfluidic tools and doing mathematical and computational modeling.” Others relied on family support to get them through years of hard work. “I made the breakthrough that led to our solving the structure on a Saturday, Valentine’s Day, while my family was visiting from New York to help me move,” says Diana Mandelker, an MD/PhD candidate in human genetics and recipient of the Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award. “The movers arrived at my old apartment at 8 a.m., and I went to lab to check on my protein crystals because I sensed we were close after working for three years. The crystals were beautiful, and the experiment was time-sensitive, so I called Sandra Gabelli, who came immediately to lab, and together we worked while my parents, brother and husband unpacked all the boxes in my new home without complaint.” Working in L. Mario Amzel’s lab, Mandelker and her colleagues solved the 3-D structure of the protein PI3Kalpha, one of the two most frequently mutated oncogenes in human cancers. Srini Subramaniam, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience, discovered while working in Solomon Snyder’s lab a new and fundamental mechanism of adding a tiny SUMO protein to other proteins, uncovering a new culprit in Huntington’s disease. “We just came home from a monthlong vacation and I was checking my e-mail. As soon as we read the news of my receiving this award, my wife started jumping up and down and my 4-year-old daughter presented me an old trophy I once won in a singing competition. It was a happy day.” As many can relate, discovery and success are not limited to the hours of 9

pays tribute to his adviser. “Jonathan Powell is a fantastic boss and really instrumental to my success,” he says. “Whether Friday afternoon brainstorming or final revisions to a paper, he’s really supportive and eager to see what’s next.” Delgoffe discovered a new link between nutrient sensing and an immune cell’s ability to mature fully to generate an immune response. “I am honored to receive this award and humbled by those who received it before me.” “The success of my thesis work has been a direct product of the mentorship of my adviser, Victor Velculescu, and the other faculty members at the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics,” says Rebecca J. Leary, a PhD candidate in cellular and molecular medicine and recipient of a Paul Ehrlich Research Award. “I am honored to be included among the ranks of Young Investigators’ Day prize recipients.” Leary developed a comprehensive landscape of genetic alterations that occur in breast, colorectal, brain and pancreatic cancers, and created a method that identifies chromosome rearrangements in tumors that can be used as “personalized” biomarkers. Also being honored are Xin Ye, a PhD candidate in molecular biology and genetics and recipient of the Martin and Carol Macht Research Award, and Tracy Tran, a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience and recipient of the Alfred Blalock Research Award. Ye, working in Jeremy Nathans’ lab, discovered that Norrin/Frizzled-4/Lrp signaling in endothelial cells controls a genetic program for retinal vascularization. Tran, working in Alex Kolodkin’s lab, discovered that secreted semaphorins regulate distinct aspects of neuron dendrite morphology and spine distribution in the postnatal central nervous system. “We are really proud of this year’s award recipients,” says Shan Sockanathan, an associate professor of neuroscience and co-chair of the award committee. “It was inspiring for the committee to review all the successes here.” G

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Museums and Society Program hosts community symposium B y A m y L u n d ay

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efitting its name, the Program in Museums and Society in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is hosting a community symposium this week with a group of Baltimore-based curators, artists and collectors to discuss the challenges and opportunities museums face in making their collections more accessible, engaging and relevant to local audiences. “Collections and Communities: Baltimore Today” will be held at the George Peabody Library, part of the university’s Sheridan Libraries Special Collections, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 16. The hope is that the symposium will facilitate conversations on a range of important professional issues while fostering future collaborations between local museums and Johns Hopkins students. The event was organized by Elizabeth Rodini, associate director of the Program in Museums and Society, and Nick Spicher, a doctoral student in the Department of History of Science and Technology and an assistant with Museums and Society. Rodini says she anticipates the creation of similar events, such as a studentorganized symposium on the business of culture that is envisioned for next year. “We believe this is very much in keeping

Elizabeth Rodini, Nick Spicher and Earle Havens in Johns Hopkins’ George Peabody Library, where ‘Collections and Communities: Baltimore Today’ will be held.

with President [Ronald J.] Daniels’ interests in reaching out and engaging more fully with Baltimore,” Rodini said. “Students get a certain academic perspective in their courses, and some are working behind the scenes, but this symposium will introduce them to people in the local museum community who

Myths about teens busted in new guide for parents, others By Tim Parsons and J ay n e B l a n c ha r d Bloomberg School of Public Health

he Teen Years Explained: A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development was written by Clea McNeely and Jayne Blanchard of the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to dispel many common myths about adolescence with the latest scientific findings on the physical, emotional, cognitive, sexual and spiritual development of teens. In the book, the authors provide tips and strategies for reallife situations and experiences, from bullying to nutrition and sexuality. Created in partnership with an alliance of youth-serving professionals, the science-based The Teen Years Explained was designed to be an accessible, practical and colorful guide to healthy adolescent development for parents and all people who work with teens. “Whether you have five minutes or five hours, you will find something useful in the guide,” said McNeely. “We want both adults and young people to understand the chang-

The guide was released on Saturday.

es—what is happening and why—so everyone can enjoy this second decade of life.” Among the myths about teenagers that the authors address: • Teens are bigger risk-takers and thrillseekers than adults. Fact: Teens perceive more risk than adults do in certain areas, such as the chance of getting into an accident if they drive with a drunk driver. • Young people listen only to their friends. Fact: Young people report that their parents, or a caring adult, are their greatest influence, especially when it comes to sexual behavior. • Adolescents live to push your buttons. Fact: Adolescents may view conflict as a way of expressing themselves, while adults take arguments personally. • When you’re a teenager, you can eat whatever you want and burn it off. Fact: Obesity rates have tripled for adolescents since 1980. • Teens don’t need sleep. Fact: Teens need as much or more sleep than they got as children; nine to 10 hours is optimum. Three years in the making, the guide was inspired by two partners of the Center for Adolescent Health—the Maryland Mentoring Partnership and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene—which felt there was a need in the community for an easily navigated and engaging look at adolescent development. Released Saturday, The Teen Years Explained is available through Amazon.com or by contacting Beth Marshall at 443-287-3008 or bmarshal@jhsph.edu. Electronic copies will be available for download through the Center for Adolescent Health Web site at www .jhsph.edu/adolescenthealth. Discount rates are available for bulk purchase and nonprofits. The Center for Adolescent Health is a Prevention Research Center at the Bloomberg School of Public Health funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its mission is to work in partnership with youth, people who work with youth, public policy– makers and program administrators to help urban adolescents develop healthy adult lifestyles.

are grappling with day-to-day issues. We’ll be talking about outreach and how museums can make the work they do more relevant and engaging for the public.” The symposium is geared toward local museum professionals as well as any interested faculty, staff and students. The panel will include Aaron Bryant, curator of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University; Peter Bruun, artist and founding director of Art on Purpose; George Ciscle, a collector who is curator in residence and coordinator of the curatorial studies concentration at the Maryland Institute College of Art; Lori Finkelstein, director of education and interpretation at the Baltimore Museum of Industry; Anita Kassof,

associate director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland; and Sam Rogers, executive vice president of Visit Baltimore. The event will begin with a short presentation by Earle Havens, curator of rare books at the Sheridan Libraries, who will speak about the Peabody Library’s historical roots as a public research library serving the Baltimore community and the public debate that went on about the proper nature of building the collection to serve the intended audience. “My hope is that it will offer a starting-off point for thinking about collections in the context of their relationship to institutional histories and to changing social contexts more generally,” he said. Begun in 1860, the library collection contains more than 300,000 volumes, largely from the 18th and 19th centuries. The core of the event will be the panel discussion, lasting approximately 45 minutes and moderated by Rodini. While she doesn’t know exactly where the conversation will go, Rodini says she thinks that the group is likely to touch upon such concerns as how to build collections that meet the needs of a museum and the expectations of its visitors, how to make historical collections relevant to today’s audiences, and the virtues and liabilities of technology in a museum setting. Following the panel, there will be a question-and-answer session, as well as time for casual conversation and networking. “There will be time for informal conversations that will hopefully plant the seeds for future collaborations and allow some people who might not have a chance to get together to get together,” Rodini said. “We’ve invited an audience that is deliberately cross-disciplinary and from museums of all sizes and scopes.” The event is free, though reservations are requested; for an online form, go to http:// krieger.jhu.edu/museums/rsvp.

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Spoiler alert: TV doc dramas ‘rife’ with breaches of conduct B y M i c ha e l P e n a

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medical student and faculty directors from The Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics analyzed depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism over a full season of two popular medical dramas, Grey’s Anatomy and House, M.D., and found that the shows were “rife” with ethical dilemmas and actions that often ran afoul of professional codes of conduct. The authors of the review, available in the April issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, say that they were well aware that their findings would end up stating the obvious. But they nonetheless wanted to provide data that would shed light on the relationship of these depictions on the perceptions of viewers, both health professionals and the general public. “I think the utility in our study is that it provides a starting point for a discussion,” said fourth-year medical student Matthew Czarny, a researcher at the Berman Institute. “In no way are we saying that these shows are educational in and of themselves.” An earlier analysis by the co-authors, along with fellow Berman Institute fac-

ulty member Marie Nolan, found that more than 80 percent of medical and nursing students watch television medical dramas. That study also concluded that the programs might prompt students to think and talk about bioethical issues. In analyzing the second seasons of Grey’s Anatomy and House, Czarny counted 179 depictions of bioethical issues, under 11 different topics, ranging from informed consent to organ-transplant eligibility to human experimentation. Berman Institute Director Ruth Faden, the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics, and the institute’s deputy director for medicine, Jeremy Sugarman, the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, designed the study, helped develop the coding and ensured the quality of the findings. Given the vivid portrayals of clinical practice and bioethical issues in medical dramas—albeit through story lines that sometimes stray into the realm of the outlandish—the co-authors began systematically eyeing the programs in the genre several years ago to assess the nature and extent of the depictions. Grey’s Anatomy, now in its sixth season on ABC and one of the most watched prime-time television series in the country, chronicles the lives of five surgical interns and their attending and resident physicians.

House, which airs on Fox and is also in its sixth season, follows the medical maverick Gregory House and his trainees as they diagnose and treat only the most difficult cases. Informed consent was the most frequently observed bioethical issue. Of 49 total incidents, 43 percent involved “exemplary” consent discussions, while the remaining instances were “inadequate.” In general, exemplary depictions portrayed “compassionate, knowledgeable physicians participating in a balanced discussion with a patient about possible treatment options.” Conversely, inadequate depictions were “marked by hurried and one-sided discussions, refusal by physicians to answer questions” and “even an entire lack of informed consent for risky procedures,” the authors state. They also tallied 22 incidents of “ethically questionable departures from standard practice,” most of them depicting doctors endangering patients unnecessarily in their pursuit of a favorable outcome. “In almost all of these incidents (18 out of 22), the implicated physician is not penalized,” the authors note. Czarny, the study’s lead author, recalled an episode of Grey’s Anatomy in which an intern forged an attending physician’s signature. “When this is discovered, the attending seems somewhat grateful that that was pursued,” Czarny said. And he cited another egregious example from the show in which

an intern administers medical care while intoxicated. The study also examined 400 incidents of professionalism, which included interactions among professional colleagues, as well as those with patients. The authors limited their count to incidents they defined as either “exemplary” or “egregious.” “Incidents related to respect were the most frequently observed across both series, and depictions were largely negative,” the authors conclude. The next most commonly observed departure from professionalism was sexual misconduct, with 58 incidents notched by Grey’s Anatomy and 11 by House. Out of 178 interactions between professionals, across all issues, the authors deemed just nine of them “exemplary” in nature. Acknowledging that both series are intended as entertainment, the Berman Institute group said that none of the findings were unexpected. And because the study was a content analysis, the authors did not set out to determine the value of these medical dramas as educational tools. Rather, their goal was to inform discussions about whether medical dramas should be shown in a classroom to spur conversations about ethics and professionalism among medical and nursing students.

Donor kidneys from hepatitis C patients needlessly denied Johns Hopkins study shows hepatitis C-positive organs pointlessly discarded B y S t e pha n i e D e s m o n

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ore than half of donor kidneys in the United States infected with hepatitis C are thrown away despite the need among hepatitis C patients who may die waiting for an infection-free organ, Johns Hopkins research suggests. In a study of national data published online in the American Journal of Transplantation, the researchers say that while outcomes are slightly worse when hepatitis C–positive patients receive hepatitis C–positive organs, the advantages of more timely transplants may outweigh the risk of waiting—perhaps more than a year—for a hepatitis C–negative kidney. Patients with hepatitis C–positive make up about 12 percent of the population with

kidney failure, and those patients have an increased risk of death on dialysis compared with those without the virus, the study says. “Nationwide, kidneys from infected donors are inappropriately thrown out and denied to patients in need,” said transplant surgeon Dorry L. Segev, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s leader. “Many transplant centers don’t use these kidneys at all, effectively consigning hepatitis C–positive patients to an average unnecessary wait of a year longer for an uninfected organ. That,” he said, “means an extra year on dialysis, in which the risk of death is 10 to 15 percent.” The use of hepatitis C–positive kidneys has been controversial in the past, owing in part to a 1 percent difference in oneyear survival for patients who receive the infected kidneys and a 2 percent difference in three-year survival. Segev said that this difference “is easily made up for by getting off dialysis sooner.” Hepatitis C–positive kidneys rarely go to hepatitis C–negative patients because the

organ would infect the recipient with the chronic liver disease. In looking at data from more than 93,000 deceased kidney donors between 1995 and 2009, Segev and his colleagues found that hepatitis C–positive kidneys were two and a half times more likely to be discarded than hepatitis C–negative kidneys. Since 1995, more than 3,500 hepatitis C–positive kidneys have been thrown away. “That’s a lot of kidneys we could have transplanted into people who need them,” Segev said. Meanwhile, he added, some 4,800 hepatitis C patients got hepatitis C–negative kidneys. “Using hepatitis C–positive kidneys in people who are infected with the virus could help those with hepatitis C and also expand the organ supply for everyone. “One-third of the nation’s transplant centers, according to the study, did not use any hepatitis C–positive kidneys for their hepatitis C patients, while 13 percent transplanted more than half their hepatitis C patients with hepatitis C–positive kidneys,” Segev said. At The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where

doctors specialize in patients with hepatitis C and kidney failure, a patient with hepatitis C could likely be successfully transplanted with a hepatitis C–positive kidney within several months of being put on the waiting list, Segev said. Recipients of hepatitis C–positive kidneys waited, on average, 395 days less than those recipients who waited for hepatitis C–negative kidneys at the same transplant center, the study shows. Other Johns Hopkins researchers on the study are Lauren M. Kucirka, Andrew L. Singer, R. Loris Ros, Robert A. Montgomery and Nabil N. Dagher.

Related Web site Dorry Segev:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ transplant/About/Segev.html

Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ transplant

Eggs can ease egg allergies, oral immunotherapy study shows B y K at e r i n a P e s h e va

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hildren with egg allergies who consume increasingly higher doses of egg protein—the very nutrient they react to—appear to gradually overcome their allergies, tolerating eggs better over time and with milder symptoms, according to research conducted at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere. The findings from a multicenter trial were presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, held Feb. 26 to March 2 in New Orleans. Previous research at Johns Hopkins showed that the same approach, known as oral immunotherapy, can be used successfully to treat children with milk allergies.

Some of the children in the milk allergy study overcame their condition completely, and many experienced less severe allergic symptoms as a result of the therapy. Now, researchers are reporting similarly encouraging results in children with egg allergies. “Just as we saw in our patients with milk allergies before, oral immunotherapy for children with egg allergies works in the same way by slowly retraining the immune system to tolerate the allergens that caused allergic reactions,” said study investigator Robert Wood, director of Allergy and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Researchers caution that confirming these early results requires long-term monitoring of the current patients and enrolling more children in the ongoing trials. They also caution that oral immunotherapy should

be implemented only by a trained pediatric allergist. In the 11-month study of 45 children ages 5 to 18, researchers gave 40 patients increasingly higher doses of egg whites during multiple food challenges conducted in a clinic and under a doctor’s supervision, while 15 children received a placebo, “dummy” food that looks like egg whites but contains no egg protein. All children received higher and higher doses of either placebo or actual egg protein in the course of the 11 months. At the end of the study, during a final food challenge, more than half the children who had been consuming eggs (21 out of 40) could tolerate 5 grams of eggs without having an allergic reaction; none of the children who received placebo were able to tolerate eggs. When symptoms did occur, investigators say, they were mild to moderate and

involved mostly itching and swelling of the mouth and throat. Children who consumed eggs also had lower blood levels of IgE antibodies—immune markers that rise during an allergic reaction— and a significant drop in the levels of eggspecific basophils, a type of white blood cell that multiplies during an allergic reaction. Food allergies have been steadily rising in the last decade and are becoming harder to outgrow, research shows. An estimated 2 percent to 3 percent of U.S. children have egg allergies.

Related Web site Robert Wood:

www.hopkinschildrens.org/ staffDetail.aspx?id=3152

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Packard’s new book, Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan. Sponsored by the Reischauer Center. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS Fri., April 16, 6 p.m. Readings by faculty of the MA in Writing Program of recently published work. The following faculty will be reading: Karen Houppert (nonfiction), Susan Muaddi Darraj (fiction), Ed Perlman (poetry) and Tim Wendel (nonfiction). Reservations are required; RSVP online to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2268. 109 Maryland. HW Sat., April 17, 1 p.m. Awardwinning local author Lucie Snodgrass will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Dishing Up Maryland. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Career expert Joe Watson will discuss and sign copies of his latest book, Where the Jobs Are. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Mon., April 19, 7 p.m.

S E M I N AR S Mon., April 12, noon. “Mechanisms of EGF Receptor Family Activation,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Mark Lemmon, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB Mon., April 12, 12:10 p.m.

Mon.,

“The USPSTF Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation: A Tale of Two Perspectives,” an Epidemiology seminar with Russell Harris, University of North Carolina. W3030 SPH. EB Mon., April 12, 12:15 p.m.

“Continuing Controversies in Pediatric End of Life Care,” a Berman Institute of Bioethics seminar with Alan Fleischman, March of Dimes Foundation. Co-sponsored by Pediatrics. W3008 SPH. EB

April

12,

2:30

p.m.

“Determining the Mechanisms of RNA Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions Using Kinetic Isotope Effects,” a Biophysics seminar with Michael Harris, Case Western Reserve University. 111 Mergenthaler.

“Regularity and Energy Arguments for a Semilinear Skyrme Model,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Dan-Andrei Geba, University of Rochester. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW Mon., April 12, 4 p.m.

“The Coset Posets of Nilpotent Subgroups,” a Topology seminar with Enrique Torres-Giese, University of Michgan. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW Mon., April 12, 4:30 p.m.

“Regulation of Neurotransmitter Receptor Function and Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Richard Huganir, SoM. 612 Physiology. Tues., April 13, noon.

Mon., April 12, 12:15 p.m.

p.m.

Mon., April 12, 4 p.m.

Mon., April 12, 12:15 p.m.

1:30

“Learning About the Cell by Breaking It: Analysis of the Yeast Global Genetic Interaction Network,” a Computational Genomics seminar with Chad Myers, University of Minnesota. 517 PCTB. EB

“Food Companies’ Stepped-Up Responses to Global Nutrition Needs,” a Center for Human Nutrition special seminar with Derek Yach, PepsiCo Global R&D. E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB

12,

“Characterizing General Anesthesia-Induced Loss of Consciousness,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Emery Brown, Harvard-MIT. 110 Clark. HW

“Road Safety in Latin America,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Eugenia Rodrigues, Pan American Health Organization. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB “From Hematopoietic Stem Cell to Erythroblast: Regulation of Red Cell Production at Multiple Levels,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Harvey Lodish, Whitehead Institute. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

April

Tues., April 13, 12:15 p.m.

“Robustness and Scaling of Morphogen Gradients,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Ben-Zion Shilo, Weizmann Institute of Science. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.

Rosenbaum, Northwestern University. 526 Mergenthaler. HW

“Hindbrain GLP-1 Receptor-Mediated Effects on Energy Balance,” a Physiology faculty candidate seminar with Matthew Hayes, University of Pennsylvania. 203 Physiology. EB

Wed., April 14, noon.

“Planetary Surface Processes,” an Earth and Planetary Sciences seminar with Nathan Bridges, JPL. 304 Olin. HW

Wed., April 14, noon.

Wed., April 14, 12:15 p.m.

“Converging Evidence for Epistasis in Bipolar Disorder Using Statistical and Bioinformatics Approaches,” a Mental Health seminar with Jennifer Judy, SPH. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed., April 14, 1:30 p.m. “Multispecific Protein:Protein Interactions: Physical Principles and Biology,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Dorothy Beckett, University of Maryland. 517 PCTB. EB

“The Role of Intrinsic Disorder in Regulating Collagen Metabolism,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Collin Stultz, MIT. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., April 14, 3 p.m.

“Piecewise Constant Estimation Algorithm for Predicting Clinical Outcomes,” a Biostatistics seminar with Annette Molinaro, Yale School of Public Health. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed., April 14, 4 p.m.

Wed.,

Tues., April 13, 12:15 p.m.

“The Issues and Challenges of Baltimore City Schools,” a special seminar with Ed Burns, cocreator, writer and producer of HBO’s The Wire. Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public Health in Urban America,” cosponsored by the Urban Health Institute, and the departments of Health, Behavior and Society and of Epidemiology. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB

April

14,

4:30

p.m.

“Expanding the Genetic Alphabet,” the inaugural Chemistry-Biology Interface Graduate Program seminar with Floyd Romesberg, Scripps Research Institute. 101 Remsen. HW April

14,

5:30

p.m.

“Adventures With Enzymes and DNA,” a Biophysical evening seminar with Jim Stivers, SoM, and lab members. Sponsored by the Institute for Biophysical Research at Johns Hopkins. 100 Mudd. HW “Growth and Survival Signals Controlling Development of the Peripheral Nervous System,” a Cell Biology seminar with David Ginty, SoM. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., April 15, noon.

“A Stochastic Interpretation of a Hitting Time Result of Mark Brown,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics student seminar with Vince Lyzinski. 303 Whitehead. HW

Thurs., April 15, noon.

Tues.,

Thurs., April 15, noon. “Modulation of Mosquito Host-Seeking Behavior,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Leslie Vosshall, Rockefeller University. W1020 SPH. EB

Tues., April 13, 4 p.m.

April

13,

4:30

p.m.

“Modeling Cognitive State,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Owen Rambow, Columbia University. North Conference Room, Stieff Building. “Making College-for-All Work: How Research Can Contribute,” a Sociology seminar with James

Wed., April 14, noon.

“The Political Economy of the Private Military,” a Political Science seminar with Sean McFate, National Defense University. 366 Mergenthaler. HW

Thurs., April 15, 12:15 p.m.

“The Only Game in Town: Employment Options in the InnerCity,” an Urban Health Institute

seminar with Emma Tsui, SPH. Part of the series “The Wire as a Lens Into Public Health in Urban America,” co-sponsored by the departments of Health, Behavior and Society and of Epidemiology. B14B Hampton House. EB “Animal Models of CNS Disorders,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Marc Caron, Duke University Medical Center. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., April 15, 1 p.m.

Thurs., April 15, 3 p.m. “An Electric Bioprocessor for Translational Applications,” a Mechanical Engineering seminar with Pak Wong, University of Arizona. 210 Hodson. HW Thurs., April 15, 4 p.m. “The Challenges of Accountability and Performance in the Information Age,” a Social Policy seminar with Donald Kettl, University of Maryland, College Park. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies, and the departments of Economics and of Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW Fri., April 16, 12:15 p.m. “Flexible Parametric Survival Model for Analysis of Current Status Data,” an Epidemiology seminar with Fang Tian, SPH. W3030 SPH. EB Mon.,

April

19,

12:10

p.m.

“Safe Kids Worldwide: A Vaccine for Childhood Injury,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Martin Eichelberger, founder, Safe Kids Worldwide. Co-sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W2033 SPH. EB Mon.,

April

19,

12:15

p.m.

“Integrating Actin Dynamics With Adhesion in Cell Migration,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Clare Waterman, NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Budget for a Declining Nation,” a Social Policy seminar with Eugene Steuerle, the Urban Institute, Washington DC. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and the departments of Economics and of Health Policy and Management. 526 Wyman Park Bldg. HW

Mon., April 19, 4 p.m.

“Finite Point Configurations in Euclidean Space,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Alex Iosevich, University of Missouri, Columbia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 302 Krieger. HW

Mon., April 19, 4 p.m.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Center for Refugee and Disaster Response panel discussion with Dean Michael Klag, SPH; Robert Ferris, U.S. Agency for International Development; Thomas Kirsch, Catholic Relief Services; William Canny, Catholic Relief Services; David Brown, Washington Post medical writer; and Jean Ford, SPH. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB Mon., April 12, 4:30 p.m. The Provost’s Lecture Series presents its inaugural address by Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider. Hodson Hall. HW Thurs., April 15, 4 p.m. School of Medicine Young Investigators’ Day, honoring young researchers. (See story, p. 1.) Sponsored by Molecular Biology and Genetics. Mountcastle Auditorium, PCTB. EB

S P ORT S Sun., April 18, noon to 5 p.m.

“Clash of the Classes: All-Star Basketball Tournament,” a contest for bragging rights among the classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. $1 admission for spectators. Proceeds go to benefit Alpha Phi Alpha’s Haiti Relief Initiative. Sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma Sigma chapter. O’Connor Recreation Center. HW SYMPOSIA

The 2010 Foreign Affairs Symposium presents Iranian-born writer and scholar Reza Aslan. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

Tues., April 13, 8 p.m.

Wed.,

April

14,

3:30

p.m.

“Social Determinants of Urban Health,” an Urban Health Institute symposium featuring Sir Michael Marmot, University College London, and a panel discussion with Dean Martha Hill, SoN, and Alfred Sommer, dean emeritus, SPH. E2014 SPH (Sommer Hall). EB “Collections and Communities: Baltimore Today,” a community symposium and panel discussion with local museum professionals. Sponsored by the JHU Program in Museums and Society and the University Libraries. (See story, p. 7.) The George Peabody Library.

Fri., April 16, 2:30 p.m.

Peabody

W OR K S HO P S Tues., April 13, 12:15 p.m.

“Salary Negotiation,” a Career Services workshop offering tips and best practices for salary negotiation. W2008 SPH. EB

Mon., April 12, 1 to 3 p.m.

“The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project,” a multimedia presentation by University of Washington historian Trevor Griffey on Seattle civil rights and labor history, construction of digital humanities projects and building university/community partnerships. Co-sponsored by History, the Center for Africana Studies and the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW Mon., April 12, 4:30 p.m. “Haiti:

Perspectives on the Response,” a

Wed.,

April

14,

4:30

p.m.

“PubMed,” a Research Services workshop. Electronic Resource Center, M-Level, MSE Library. HW

“Got Impact? Tools for Assessing the Influence of Your Research,” a Bits & Bytes workshop, designed for faculty and TAs, but staff are welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. To register, go to www .cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW

Thurs., April 15, 1 p.m.

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The Johns Hopkins Hospital launches Meatless Monday

he Johns Hopkins Hospital is launching a campaign today to encourage healthier eating among patients, visitors and staff: Meatless Monday. Every Monday the hospital’s renovated Cobblestone Café will offer only vegetarian meal options at its Wellness Corner to promote the benefits of eating more grains, fruits and vegetables. Meals containing meat will still be available in other areas of the cafeteria. “I’m looking forward to helping customers learn that they’re not sacrificing taste by eating vegetarian meals,” says executive chef Shawn Fields, whose vegetarian chili is already a mainstay at the Wellness Corner. The national Meatless Monday campaign was launched in 2003 in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The effort’s primary focus is to reduce the consumption of saturated fat by 15 percent, following the recommendations of the “Healthy People 2010” report issued by then U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher. Meatless Monday also is intended to raise awareness of the environmental and

public health impact of industrial meat production linked to water use, climate change and pollution. “While eating meat a few days a week can be a healthy part of your diet, most Americans eat much more than the USDA recommends,” says Robert Lawrence, director of the Center for a Livable Future. According to CLF, the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that men in this country consume as much as 190 percent of their recommended daily allowance of protein, and women as much as 160 percent. Americans derive the majority of their protein from meat and other animal sources. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, appointed by the departments of Health and Agriculture, stated that people who eat more fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy diet are “likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes and cancers in certain sites.” JHH’s dining services are managed by Sodexo. The Cobblestone Café serves about 1,800 customers a day.

Evergreen Museum & Library presents flamenco in concert B y H e at h e r E g a n S ta l f o rt

Johns Hopkins University Museums

ohns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library concludes its 2009–2010 Music at Evergreen concert series at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 17, with the multidisciplinary ensemble Segue presenting Ritmo, Color y Pasión, a celebration of the Spanish art of flamenco. A mix of Spanish, Argentinean and Cuban-influenced music and dance, the program showcases works by Joaquín Nin, Isaac Albéniz, Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Pardel, Pedro Laurenz, Enrique Delfino and others in four thematic collections—“Scenes from Catalonia,” “Seasons of Argentina,” “Nights at El Barrio” and “Tango Nuovo”—and explores a variety of flamenco dance forms, ranging from the traditional soleá and tientos to styles showing the New World influence of Cuban and Colombian rhythms. The performance features the award-winning talents of Segue founder and violinist Sarah E Geller, flamenco dancer Eva Conti Alegria, guitarist/arranger Jared Newman and guest pianist Kathleen Landis. Presented in celebration of the 20-year

Invention Continued from page 1 tibility or resistance in a matter of hours. Based on APL-developed algorithms, this novel method has potential applications in homeland defense, clinical microbiology, infectious disease treatment, and drug development and testing. Twelve other inventions, covering areas ranging from materials and nanotechnolo-

anniversary of Evergreen Museum & Library’s opening to the public, this concert will be performed against the museum’s rarely exhibited Seville Street Scene stage set, designed by the Russian artist Léon Bakst for the theater he created at Evergreen in 1923 for Alice Warder Garrett, an aficionada of Spanish art, music and dance. Following the performance, a tea reception will be held in the museum’s Far East Room, where audience members will have the opportunity to meet with the musicians. Founded in 2005, the New York–based Segue premiers new works and mines hidden gems of mainstream composers and alternative genres, in addition to presenting the music of the great masters. Tickets are $20, $15 members and $10 students with valid ID and include admission to the museum (open by guided tour only, offered on the day of the concert at noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.) and the post-concert reception. Seating is limited; advance tickets are available by going to www.missiontix.com, calling 410-516-0341 or visiting the Evergreen Museum Shop. The 2009–2010 Music at Evergreen concert series is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation.

gies to computer security and communications, were finalists for the award. “Every day, our staff is called on to address the nation’s most critical technical challenges,” said APL Director Rich Roca. “These inventions are perfect examples of how APL’s best scientists and engineers apply their skills with innovation, imagination and creativity.” Also at the event, former APL researcher Micah Carlson was named a Master Inventor, joining 22 other past and current APL staff members who have earned that honor by holding at least 10 patents. G

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Bayview, 1st flr, 2-3BR apt, $700/mo + sec dep; 2nd flr 1BR, $600/mo + sec dep. 443243-1651.

Perry Hall, luxury 3BR, 2.5BA TH, built 2006, upgraded master BA, 2-car garage. 443-653-2689.

Canton, gorgeous, remodeled 2BR, 2.5BA RH. $1,800/mo + utils. tarynzlatin@hotmail .com (for pics/info).

Rodgers Forge, 3BR, 1.5BA TH w/new kitchen and windows, CAC, W/D, great county schools, perfect location. $1,600/mo. mtrblsd@gmail.com.

Cathedral St, stunning 1BR apt, W/D, CAC/heat, intercom, new kitchen/BA, hdwd flrs, fp, avail May 1 or June 1. $1,075/ mo. 443-621-1015. Charles Village, lg, elegant 1BR, 1BA apt, private entry, dining rm, AC, W/D, WiFi, free off-street prkng. $895/mo incl heat, hot water. 410-236-9840. Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA apt w/ spacious living rm, full kitchen, patio, private entry, across from JHMI shuttle stop. $975/mo. 443-858-9118. Charles Village/Oakenshawe, lovely 4BR, 2.5BA house, W/D, dw, AC, cable, DSL, microwave, fp, 1st and 2nd flr porches, garage, walk to JHMI shuttle/Homewood campus. $2,700/mo. 410-493-7026 or k2anderson@rocketmail.com. Charles Village (University One), 2BR, 1BA condo on higher flr, great city view, 1 blk to Homewood campus, avail June 1, minimum 1-yr lease. $1,600/mo incl utils. 443-985-0826 or jhu1800@yahoo.com. Eastwood (6904 Eastbrook Ave), beautiful, renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA house nr Bayview, avail July 1. $1,300/mo. 443-570-5492 or dave918@gmail.com. Hampden (41st St), 3BR apt w/new BA, new paint, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, pantry, dw, W/D, garage. $1,350/mo incl utils. 443474-1492 or www.steverutz.com/apt.htm. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Homewood (295 W 31st St), 2BR TH, W/D, gas heat, deck, fenced yd, no smokers/no dogs. $1,000/mo. Va, 888-386-3233 (toll-free) or yankybrit@hotmail.com. Jefferson Court, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, steps to medical campus, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, rear yd, off-street prkng incl’d. $1,100/mo + utils. 443-838-5575. Mt Vernon, spacious, bright 1BR condo, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, granite, 24-hr service, walk to JH shuttle, avail June 25. $1,095/mo. nebbyn77@hotmail.com. Mt Washington, 1BR, 1BA furn’d apt in owner-occupied house, short-term OK, lg living rm, dining area, mini-kitchen, powder rm, W/D, free prkng, 10 mins to Homewood, 20 mins to JHMI, refs req’d. $900/mo incl utils. jill.kearney@gmail.com.

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Wyman Park, 2BR apt, AC, hdwd flrs, laundry in bldg, nr Homewood/JHMI shuttle. $1,100/mo incl heat. 443-615-5190. Wyman Park, 3BR TH, W/D, dw, security, cable, deck, prkng, fenced yd, 1 blk to JHU; Craigslist #1640680824 (photos). $1,650/ mo + utils. fullcirc1@verizon.net.

1BR in 2BR, 1BA Bolton Hill apt in converted mansion, living rm, kitchen, hdwd flrs. $600/mo + utils. 202-658-8610 or kateepting@gmail.com.

Renov’d 2-level carriage house apt, avail after May 15, 1,500 sq ft, open plan, deck, prkng, conv to JHMI and shuttle at corner. 410-732-9832.

1BR, priv BA in beautifuly renov’d TH in Upper Fells Point, share w/2 grad students, sec sys, W/D, wireless, prkng, panoramic views from roof deck, 1 blk to Patterson Park, walk/bike to school. $700/mo. Sharon, 443-695-9073.

Renov’d 2BR waterfront cottage w/pier/boat slip, wraparound deck, W/D, dw, conv to JHH/JHU. $1,650/mo + utils + sec dep. 410790-6597 or sohare@verizon.net (pics/info). Temporary housing, lg BR, full kitchen, front porch, prkng, month-to-month lease, credit check req’d. $850/mo incl heat, elec and sec dep ($100). adecker001@yahoo.com. Lg, luxury 1BR high-rise condo, nr JHU/ Homewood/Guilford, CAC/heat, W/D, doorman, security, pool, exercise rm, all utils. anthony8066@gmail.com. 2BR, 1.5BA apt, kitchen, dining rm, W/D, $950/mo + utils. 410-409-9205 or anis .merson@medstar.net.

HOUSES FOR SALE

Bolton Hill TH, in immaculate condition, 2 big BRs converted from 3BRs, 2.5BAs, new roof/windows, French doors, cathedral ceilings, skylight, granite, hdwd flrs, all appliances recent. $299,000. 410-383-7055.

Mt Washington, 5BR, 3.5BA house w/2-car garage. $2,200/mo + utils. 443-939-6027 or qzzhao@gmail.com. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on oceanside block (137th St), lg pool, short walk to restaurants and entertainment, 2 prkng spaces, prime wks avail. 410-544-2814.

Charles Village (Carrollton Condo), charming 2BR, 2BA condo next to JHMI shuttle, garage. $150,000. emmakcontact@yahoo .com.

Owings Mills, 2BR, 2BA condo, W/D, walk-in closets, storage, prkng, pool/tennis court privileges, backs to woods, conv to metro, walk to grocery, sm pets negoJHU Gazette—April 5, 12, 2010 tiable ($250 nonrefundable deposit), 1-yr

Cross Keys Village, totally renov’d 2BR, 1.5BA condo, faces south, sleek kitchen w/ ceramic flr, granite counters, stainless steel appls, nr I-83, mins to JHH/JHU, steps to shops/restaurants. $218,000. 443-742-3520.

ent a furnished BD (2 available) in charming country house in Greenspring Valley, wooded setting, quiet, private, rent 1 or 2, includes wireless internet, CAC, util. etc., built-in desk & bookcase. Ideal for post-doc. fellow, visiting professor/doctor. 15 min. to JHU/JHMI. Well trained dogs are welcome. Avail. now. Mo-mo. lease & 1 mo. Sec. dep. req. $500 per mo./per room. Call 410-227-9065.

Fells Point, charming 2BR, 2BA RH, 1 blk from water, 3 mins to JHH/SoM, study area, 2 fps, courtyd, perfect for roommates. $269,000. Lee, 410-371-4034.

Summer sublet: 1BR avail in Fells Point, avail June 1-Aug 20, priv BA, shared kitchen, view of water, bldg has fitness center, business center, coffee bar, movie theater, club rm, grilling decks face water. $1,100/ mo + utils. 319-431-5848.

Bolton Hill, sunny 2BR, 1BA in Nightingale Condominium, 1,069 sq ft, granite, hdwd flrs, W/D, fp, roof deck, garden, prkng. $225,000. rice_epicurean@yahoo.com.

Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

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Spacious 1BR in 3BR, 2.5BA apt in Mt Washington, avail May-August, W/D, CAC/heat, pool, tennis. $450/mo. 443220-2138 or hlhuang@gmail.com. Housemate needed for 2BR TH in Laurel, Md, huge rm, temporary stay OK, nr APL. $600/mo incl utils. ammagnan@hotmail .com. Share brand new 2BR, 2.5BA house in Patterson Park area. $750/mo incl all utils. Delia, 908-347-7404.

CARS FOR SALE

’96 Audi Quattro A6 wagon, automatic, V6, heated/power leather seats, power doors and locks, CD, moonroof, towing pkg, 226K mi. $4,179. 406-838-6780.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Moving sale: brand new Ikea futon, yd work items, outdoor furniture. cooke09@gmail .com (for pics). Oak antique fireplace mantle, antique dropleaf table, carved chair, end tables, marble-

Experienced nanny avail from June 1 for FT job caring for infants/young children/ twins and engaging them in play (indoors/ outside), trained in CPR, will do household laundry, care for pets, light housework, hrs flexible, outstanding references from Hopkins faculty. Mary, 410-736-0253. Lifestyler JH4000 exercise bike w/computerized time, speed, distance, calories; hardly used, free if you pick up. Lvr1214@comcast .net. Responsible incoming Hopkins grad student looking for a housesitting opportunity, your house will be in good hands. peacenow2@ gmail.com. Mature, experienced nanny wanted PT to care for our infant, Tuesdays beginning in May, Canton area. 347-523-3843 or vinotinto23@gmail.com. Mobile car wash or complete detailing, inside/out, 10 yrs’ experience, great prices, fast service. 410-630-3311. Violin lessons taught by former Peabody Prep faculty, in my home, all levels. 410804-9570. Affordable tennis lessons from top-10 MD player, better rates for 2 or more. frana2010@ yahoo.com (for rates). Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary house-sitting services, impeccable references. alwayshomepc@gmail.com. Looking to sublet an apt in Charles Village for summer. 443-253-2104. Chinese prof’l piano tutor available, substantial experience for all levels of children; requires pick up/drop off. 443-253-6909. Seeking mature nanny/sitter for girls 2 and 4 yrs old, PT, after school wkdays, some wknds, Silver Spring area; college student OK, references req’d. 202-498-3209 (after 6pm). M residence assistants wanted to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus, July 10-16. 410-7354382. Piano lessons w/experienced teacher, Peabody doctorate, all levels, patient instruction. 410-662-7951. Make things happen with a great headshot! Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443-695-9988 or eddaviswrite@ comcast.net. Spring is here! Interior/exterior painting, home/deck power washing, leaf removal, bush trimming, general maintenance; licensed, insured, free estimates, affordable. 410-3351284 or randy6506vfw@yahoo.com. Licensed landscaper needs PT help for lawn maintenance, trash hauling; must have own transportation, Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Affordable landscaper/horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens; also do planting, designing and masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@ hotmail.com.

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Calendar COLLOQUIA

“Something Other Than Its Own Mass: Corporeality, Animality, Materiality,” an Anthropology colloquium with Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., April 13, 4 p.m.

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4:15

Tues., April 13, 3 p.m. The Earnest and Agnes Gloyna Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Engineering—“Chemical Stressors in the Environment: Past, Present and Future” by Nancy Love, University of Michigan. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. Mason Hall. HW

Wed., April 14, 2 to 5 p.m.

“The Public Performance of Prayer,” an Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project colloquium with Michael Lambek, University of Toronto. Co-sponsored by Anthropology. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

Wed.,

“Attention for Learning and Action in Associative Learning,” a Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium with Peter Holland, KSAS. 234 Ames. HW

Thurs., April 15, 3:45 p.m.

“A Domain-General Approach to Ellipsis,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University. 134A Krieger. HW Fri., April 16, 2 p.m. “Open FOAM: Object Oriented Software in Computational Continuum Mechanics,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Hrvoje Jasak, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Parsons Auditorium. APL

C O N FERE N C E Thurs., April 15, 5:15 to 7:15 p.m., and Fri., April 16, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. “Littérature and

animalité,” a French graduate student conference with a keynote address by Paule Petitier, University of Paris Diderot-Paris VII, on the topic “Humanité/animalité au XIXe siècle: De l’analogie à la contiguïté.” Sponsored by German and Romance Languages and Literatures. STSci Auditorium, Muller Building. HW

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10:45

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The Holtz Lecture by Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 110 Maryland. HW

Wed., April 14, 4 p.m.

“Science at Sea: The Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Magnetic Survey in the Pacific, 1905–1908,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Simon Thode, KSAS. Room 102, 3505 N. Charles St. HW

April

Three days of films at Homewood

lassic movies, indie films, animation, documentaries and obscure short films are all on the marquee for Johns Hopkins Film Fest 2010, which takes place April 16 to 18 on the Homewood campus. Sponsored by the student-run Johns Hopkins Film Society, the festival is a nonprofit event that seeks to promote works by budding independent and student filmmakers. The program includes 35 mm screenings of the blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite and Federico Fellini’s classic La Dolce Vita, as well as four programs of short films from across the country and around the world. Rounding out the screenings are five features by independent filmmakers, including Hamilton by Baltimore filmmaker Matthew Porterfield, a lecturer in the Film and Media Studies program. (Details at www.hopkinsfilmfest .com.) The Johns Hopkins community is invited to a free kick-off party at 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 15, in Nolan’s in Charles Commons. See Film/ Video.

D I S C U S S I O N / TA L K S

F I L M / V I D EO

“Health Visionary Helps Turn Urban Blight Into Hope,” a Jhpiego discussion with Kenyan health worker Jane Otai. Ballroom C, Charles Commons. HW

Fri., April 16, through Sun., April 18. Johns Hopkins Film

Mon., April 12, 6 p.m.

“Identity, Solidarity and Islam in Europe,” a SAIS European Studies Program discussion with Erik Jones, SAIS. A “Year of Religion” event. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS

Tues., April 13, 5 p.m.

Mon., April 19, 12:30 p.m.

“Religion, Identity and Global Governance,” a SAIS Global Theory and History Program discussion with Patrick James, University of Southern California. 806 Rome Building. SAIS

Fest 2010. (See above.) Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Film Society. $3 per show general admission, and free for Hopkins students, faculty and staff with valid ID. Films will be shown in Shriver Hall Auditorium on Friday and Saturday and in 111 Mergenthaler on Sunday. HW

Wed., April 14, 1:30 p.m. The 2010 Richard J. Carroll Lecture—“Creating New Architecture: Studies in Structural Topology” by William Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Sponsored by Civil Engineering. Boardroom, 3rd floor, Hodson Hall. HW

“Delaware’s Public Health Activities,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Marcy Parykaza, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB Fri., April 16, 12:15 p.m.

Peabody Fri., April 16, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Jazz Orchestra performs. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Music at Evergreen presents Ritmo, Color y Pasión, a celebration of flamenco. (See story, p. 10.) Evergreen Museum & Library.

Sun., April 18, 3 p.m. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra performs music by Gabrieli, Prokofiev and Franck. 2 p.m. Pre-concert talk by Stefan Jackiw. (See “In Brief,” p. 2.) $10 general admission, $8 for senior citizens, JHU affiliates and non-JHU students; free for JHU students and Maryland state employees. Shriver Hall. HW

Organ and chamber percussion performance, with John Walker, organ, and percussion students of Robert van Sice. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Griswold Hall.

Sun., April 18, 4 p.m.

Peabody

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S

Tues., April 13, 2 p.m. Sam Jaffe, IDC Energy Insights, discusses his book The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea’s Economic Rise. Sponsored by the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS. 806 Rome Building. SAIS

Wed., April 14, 5:30 p.m. The Eaton E. Lattman Graduate Student Community Lecture Series presents “Taming Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis Control and Instittional Change in Mid-20th-Century Shanghai” by Rachel Core, KSAS, and “Characterization of Human Sensing Capabilities for Improved Upper-Limb Prosthesis Use” by Netta Gurari, WSE. Sponsored by the Homewood Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office. B17 CSEB. HW

Wed., April 14, 7 p.m. Local author Deborah Rudacille will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.

April 16, 4 p.m. The 2010 Cecile Pickart Lecture— “Ubiquitin Signaling in Immune Defense” by James Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Sponsored by Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

Thurs., April 15, 6:15 p.m.

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“The Metaphysics of the Self: Hegel’s Metaphysical Conception of SelfConsciousness,” a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture by Rolf-Peter Horstman, KSAS. 101A Dell House.

Mon., April 19, 5:15 p.m.

MUSIC G RA N D ROU N D S

Wed., April 14, 7:30 p.m. The Peabody Wind Ensemble performs music by Mogensen, de Meij and Barnes. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall.

Sat., April 17, 3 p.m.

Thurs., April 15, 3 p.m.

Mon., April 12, 7 to 9 p.m.

Online information session for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy program. Sponsored by Advanced Academic Programs. RSVP to http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=2089. Information necessary to participate in the online sessions will be provided after RSVP.

Tues., April 13, noon. The 17th Annual Shallenberger Lecture in Ethics—“Integrating Clinical and Public Health Ethics—The H1N1 Pandemic” by Ruth Faden, SPH. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service. Hurd Hall.

p.m.

L E C TURE S

“Redox-Active Ligand-Mediated Organometallic Catalysis at Manganese and Cobalt: New Routes to sp3-Hybridized C-C Bonds,” a Chemistry colloquium with Jake Soper, Georgia Institute of Technology. 233 Remsen.

Thurs., April 15, 3 p.m. “Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices: What Are the Challenges to Mapping Out Quantum Phase Transitions?” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center.

I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS

Tues., April 13, 8 p.m. Performance by Alan Stepansky, violoncello, and Marian Hahn, piano, of music by Faure, Chopin, Prokofiev and Stephenson. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

HW Thurs., April 15, 4:30 p.m.

The Poetry at Hopkins English series presents a reading by David Larsen. Sponsored by English. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW

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(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering