Full house at Analysis of Asthmatic Phenotype Workshop

The first in a series of AllerGen-supported specialized professional development workshops was held at the Montreal General Hospital and the Meakins Christie Laboratories in Montreal on October 24-25, 2006.

McGill University Professor Dr. Danuta Radzioch facilitated the workshop attended by active AllerGen researchers and trainees interested in the physiological methods of phenotyping asthma in rodents. Various asthma phenotypes, principles of Whole Body Plephysmography (WBP) analysis, and the analysis of resistance and elastance using the Harvard Apparatus Ventilator system and the flexiVent apparatus were covered at the two-day session.

The workshop provided an opportunity for nine trainees, two Network investigators and one research associate to discuss and share new and different ways to use equipment and evaluate the data generated-skills that they can use at their respective labs, increasing their research capabilities.

Gurpreet Singhera, a Theme III research associate at the James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre, says new skills acquired at the workshop will help her lab analyze the outcome of mice experiments after sensitization and challenge.