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Monthly Trainee Journal Club

Seminars

Undergraduate Toxicology Course

Scientific Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

 

Recent Awards

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Becky Alyea on recently receiving an abstract award from Women in Endocrinology and a separate travel award from the Endocrine Society to attend the fellowship workshop at the 2007 Endocrine Society Meeting.

 

 

Recent trainee Andy Kurtz (left) and Program Director Mary Treinen Moslen (right) with Dr. Neal Lane, keynote speaker for our Science Policy Workshop. Dr. Lane is a former Director of the NSF.

 

Monthly Trainee Journal Club

When/Where

Presenter

Article(s)/Topic

June 2, 2008 Casey Charvet Houck, KA, Kavlock, RJ (2008) Understanding mechanisms of toxicity: Insights from drug discovery research. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 277: 163-178.
May 5, 2008 Lindsay Reese Golomb, BA (2008) Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and Gulf War illnesses. PNAS 105(11): 4295-4300.
April 7, 2008 Cat Rondelli Hoelzl, C, Glatt, H, Meini, W, Sontag, G, Haidinger, G, Kundi, M, Simic, T, Chakraborty, A, Bichler, J, Ferk, F, Angelis, K, Nersesyan, A, and Knasmuller, S (2008) Consumption of Brussels sprouts protects peripheral human lymphocytes against 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhlP) and oxidative DNA-damage: results of a controlled human intervention trial. Mol Nutr Food Res 52:330-341.
March 3, 2008 Shelly Wilson Uno, S, Dalton, TP, Derkenne, S, Curran, CP, Miller, ML, Shertzer, HG and Nebert, DW (2004) Oral Exposure to Benzo[а]pyrene in the Mouse: Detoxication by Inducible Cytochrome P450 is More Important Than Metabolic Activation. Molecular Pharmacology 66(5):1225-1237.
February 4, 2008 Yan Larsen Thatcher, TH, Maggirwar, SB, Baglole, CJ, Lakatos, HF, Gasiewicz, TA, Phipps, RP and Sime, PJ (2007) Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor-Deficient Mice Develop Heightened Inflammatory Responses to Cigarette Smoke and Endotoxin Associated with Rapid Loss of the Nuclear Factor-кB Component RelB. Am J Pathol 170(3):855-864.
January 7, 2008 Dr. Rick Schnellmann Professional development session about preparing competitive fellowship applications and discussion on the manuscript review process.
December 3, 2007 Alison Motosue Ritz, B, Wilhelm, M, Hoggatt, KJ and Ghosh, JKC (2007) Ambient Air Pollution and Preterm Birth in the Environment and Pregnancy Outcomes Study at the University of California, Los Angeles. Am J Epidemiol 166(9):1045-1052.
November 5, 2007 Vincent Dimayuga Jia, L, Liu, Z, Sun, L, Miller, SS, Ames, BN, Cotman, CW, and Liu, J (2007) Acrolein, a Toxicant in Cigarette Smoke, Causes Oxidative Damage and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in RPE Cells: Protection by (R)-α-Lipoic Acid. IOVS 48(1): 339-348.
October 1, 2007 Ann Wozniak Trujillo-Murillo, K et al (2007) Additive effect of ethanol and HCV subgenomic replicon expression on COX-2 protein levels and activity. J Viral Hepatitis 14:608-617.
September 10, 2007 Jai Dwivedi Peng, J, Peng, L, Stevenson, FF, Doctrow, SR, and Anderson, JK (2007) Iron and Paraquat as Synergistic Environmental Risk Factors in Sporadic Parkinson's Disease Accelerate Age-Related Neurodegneration. Neuroscience 27(26):6914-6922.
August 6, 2007 Cat Rondelli Herbert, Robin et al (2006) The World Trade Center Diaster and the Health of Workers: Five-Year Assessment of a Unique Medical Screening Program. Environ Health Perspectives 114(12): 1853-1858.
July 2, 2007 Becky Alyea Vandenberg, LN, Maffini, MV, Wadia, PR, Sonnenschein, C, Rubin, BS and Soto, AM (2007) Exposure to Environmentally Relevant Doses of the Xenoestrogen Bisphenol-A Alters Development of the Fetal Mouse Mammary Gland. Endocrinology 148(1): 116-127.

 

 

 

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Seminars

Undergraduate Toxicology Course

The Toxicology Trainees and faculty will be teaching a basic Toxicology course to undergraduates at Texas A&M University in Galveston during the 2007 spring semester.  Classes begin Tuesday, January 16, 2007.  Further information can be found at www.tamug.edu.

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Scientific Meetings

When/Where

Title/Presenter

Details

October 18-19, 2007

Williams Alumni Center

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX

Gulf Coast Chapter Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting For additional information, contact Dr. Yanan Tian at 979-458-3599 or ytian@cvm.tamu.edu.

March 25-29, 2007     

Charlotte Convention Center

Charlotte, NC

Society of Toxicology 46th Annual Meeting Visit the Society of Toxicology website for details at www.toxicology.org.

 

 

 

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Upcoming Meetings

When/Where

Title/Presenter

Details

July 15-17, 2007
Montreal, Canada

Eleventh International Congress of Toxicology: Toxicology-Discovery Serving Society

February 15, 2005 deadline for the submission of proposals for Symposium, Workshops, and Continuing Education topics for the Eleventh International Congress of Toxicology, to be held in Montreal, Canada from July 15-19, 2007.
http://eurotox.umh.es/welcome_to_the_homepage_of_eurot.htm

 

 

 

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