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David C. Walker fonds
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24 cm of textual records.
ca. 500 photographic prints.
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David C. Walker earned his two bachelor's degrees at the University of California Santa Barbara, one in zoology in 1968 and one in botany in 1970. He then completed a MA in botany at UCSB in 1972 and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in botany in 1980. In 1979 he became a research assistant with the Pulmonary Research Lab, and in 1983 Walker became an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC. In 1996 he was promoted to associate professor. During his career with UBC, Walker supervised the Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the Pulmonary Research Laboratory at St. Paul's Hospital (later the James C. Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research) and continued to perform his research in the areas of mechanisms of airway epithelial permeability (especially following cigarette smoke exposure), the morphological aspects of the process of leukocyte migration from pulmonary blood vessels into the airspaces in response to types of pneumonia. He also taught several classes and served as a graduate advisor.
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Fonds contains records relating to the research of David C. Walker. This includes photographs of electron microscope images and illustrations regarding epithelial and endothelial tri-cellular corner tight junctions. Also included are notes, drafts, reviews, and final copies of four publications: “The role of epithelial cell tight junctions in tracheal permeability,” “The reassessment of the tricellular region of epithelial cell tight junctions,” “The structure of the tricellular junctions of pulmonary capillaries,” and “Tricellular corners: preferred sites for leukocyte emigration from the pulmonary vasculature of rabbits".
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Acquired by donation of David Walker in May 2015.
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Some textual records originally filed together with their corresponding photographs have been removed and placed in their own folders. These have been cross-referenced to their original files.
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Many files and images are titled with the names of individuals whose tissues were used in the various human studies. Access to such records is restricted.
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