For all Interested
High School Students

Session 1:
June 26 - July 7, 2006 -

Session 2:
July 10 - July 21, 2006

Lunch and Learn Seminar Series

Thursday, July 20, 2006

``Modeling Infectious Diseases of the Lungs" 

with

John Younger

(Emergency Medicine, UM)

Doctor Younger after a race

(this is how he stays younger!)

Some patients are threatened after they enter the Emergency Room with severe forms of pneumonia contracted n the ER. Dr. Younger reports on how medical scientists are trying to save these patients from such perils iddenin the ER!

Adam Brinkman spent the summer of 2001 in the laboratory helping develop 2 new models of bacterial pneumonia. He currently is an undergraduate in Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Each year, the Younger laboratory sponsors a variety of students, residents, and fellows seeking laboratory experience. We have extensive experience working with trainees at all levels, and have had the honor of working with many individuals who will hopefully remember our lab when they are famous!  

Angie Ko calibrating transducers at an "isolated lung rig". Angie spent the summer of 2000 in the Younger lab as a University of Michigan Medical School Summer Scholar. She is currently in her final year of medical school at Michigan.

The Younger Lab studies the pathophysiology of and investigates new treatments for acute lung injury and acute respiratory failure. Interests include the mechanisms leading to lung edema and functional failure and laboratory techniques that can be used to quantify such changes. We are particularly interested in the role of complement activation in the development of injury and interactions between complement and bacterial pathogens in the lung. We are using the knowledge gained in this work to examine potential new therapies for lung injury.

Two ways to bring in extreme emergency patients:

Survival Flight transporters  

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