UTMB Toxicology Trainees

Name	Mentor	Program	Description
Julia Bohannon	Tracy Toliver-Kinsky	Microbiology & Immunology	Investigating the effects of the immune-enhancing cytokine Fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 ligand on resistance to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection of smoke-induced wounds.
Erica Dahl	Tom Albrecht	Microbiology & Immunology	Investigating effects of the environmental toxicant butadiene on the intrinsic apoptotic pathway.
Vincent Dimayuga	John Papaconstantinou	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Investigating the structural and functional changes of age-associated oxidatively damaged endoplasmic reticulum chaperones.
Catherine Rondelli	Sherif Abdel-Rahman	Cell Biology	Functional characterization of XPC Genetic Polymorphisms.
Anne Tann	Sankar Mitra	Cell Biology	Investigate how accumulation of abasic sites and oxidized abasic sites in DNA, caused by the absence of APE1's repair activity, influences reactive oxygen species-initiated apoptosis.
Ann Wozniak	Steven Weinman	Cell Biology	Investigating the role of redox signaling and intracellular acidfication in the replication and life cycle of Hepatitis C virus infection.

Name	Mentor(s)	Program	Description
Jai Dwivedi	Phillip Lee and Jeff Wickliffe	Marine Toxicology	Establish an elasmobranch model to study the effects of metal based biocides including changes in cellular morphology, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, and the role of the antioxidant defense system in the development of pathology.
Alison Motosue	Sharon Petronella	Environmental Epidemiology	Assess patterns of health symptoms and participant's perception of environmental exposures and risk among a group of Houston residents as part of an environmental epidemiology project known as HEATS (Houston Exposure to Air Toxics Study).

Name	Grad Year	Mentor	Current Position
Andrew Kurtz	2003	R. Stephen Lloyd	Projects Manager, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD.
Dora Bocangel	2003	Sankar Mitra	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
Marty Gill	2007	J. Regino Perez-Polo	Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Brad Patrick	2007	Yogesh Awasthi	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Vicente Santa Cruz	2001	Mary Kanz	Industrial Toxicologist; Chevron Philips Chemical Company LP, The Woodlands, TX
Bryan Shipp	2000	Mary Treinen-Moslen	Hazard Assessment and Characterization Specialist, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
Sylvette Ayala-Torres	1998	E. Brad Thompson	Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR

Name	Grad Year	Mentor	Current Position
Kristen Mitchell	2004	Cornelis Elferink	Postdoctoral fellow supported by NIEHS individual fellowship.
Tammy Dugas	1999	Mary Kanz	Assistant Professor; Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA.
Daniel Conklin	1998	Paul Boor	Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky.
Mark Merchant	1994	John Papaconstantinou	Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
Ronald Porter	1994	Abraham Hsie	Principal Scientist, Center for Science and Technology, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA.