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Kirkwood et al. pub recognized as "NIEHS Paper of the Month"

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2022/4/papers/dert/index.htm

Pine needles work as passive samplers for PFAS

NIEHS-funded researchers showed that pine needles can be used as a tool to monitor the presence and distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) over time. The pine needle’s w…

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Nnamdi Osakwe passes PhD Qual Exam!

Nnamdi passed his Bioinformatics Qualifying Exam and is now a candidate for the PhD!

Preethi presents at SOT

Preethi presented a poster at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) annual meeting in San Diego:

"Using zebrafish behavior to reveal gene-environment interactions underlying population susceptibility differences after chemical exposure"

Preethi Thunga, Lisa Truong, Yvonne Rericha, Warren Anderson, …

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Dylan presents at SOT

Dylan presented a poster at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) annual meeting in San Diego:

"Using High-throughput Screening to Identify Genetic Mechanisms of Individual Susceptibility Differences"

Dylan Wallis, Jane La Du, Preethi Thunga, Lisa Truong, Robyn L Tanguay, David M Reif

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Adrian presents at SOT

Adrian Green presented a platform talk at the SOT session “Deep Learning and Graph Algorithms: New Approaches in Computational Toxicology”

Jessie wins 'Best Poster' at annual symposium!

Jessie Chappel won 'Best Poster' at the 2022 GSGSA Symposium for "A Novel Approach to Evaluating Disease Risk Through the Incorporation of Machine Learning and Lipidomic Data".

Authors: Jessie Chappel, Mary King, Rachel DeHoog, Livia S. Eberlin, David Reif, Erin Baker.

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Dylan Wallis successfully defends their PhD!

The Many Layers of Toxicology: A Multi-layered Approach to Understanding Exposure and Vulnerability

The journey from chemical exposure to adverse effect is long, complex, and often poorly understood. Differences in the effects of exposure can occur at the genetic, molecular, biological, or even g…

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David takes part in EPA advisory committee meeting on Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities

As a member of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), David took part in the meeting "Peer Review of the EPA TSCA Screening Level Approach for Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities."

On March 15-17, 2022, EPA will hold a public virtual meeting of the Scie…

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Skylar nominated for College-level award

Skylar Marvel was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 College of Sciences Award for Excellence! The awards ceremony will take place on March 18th.

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Implementation of Zebrafish Ontologies for Toxicology Screening (2022) Frontiers in Toxicology

Anne E Thessen, Skylar Marvel, J. C. Achenbach, Stephan Fischer, Melissa Anne Haendel, Kimberly Hayward, Nils Klüver, Sarah Könemann, Jessica Legradi, Pamela J Lein, Connor Leong, Arantza Muriana, J. Erik Mylroie, Stephanie Padilla, Dante Perone, Antonio Planchart, Rafael Miñana Prieto, Celia Queved…

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Systematic developmental toxicity assessment of a structurally diverse library of PFAS in zebrafish (2022) J Hazard Mater

Truong L, Rericha Y, Thunga P, Marvel S, Wallis D, Simonich MT, Field JA, Cao D, Reif DM, Tanguay RL. Systematic developmental toxicity assessment of a structurally diverse library of PFAS in zebrafish. J Hazard Mater. 2022 Mar 2;431:128615. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128615. Epub ahead of print. P…

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Nnamdi Osakwe awarded new grant!

Nnamdi Osakwe was awarded a grant for his proposal “Building Comprehensive Models of Community Integrity and Community Engagement”. The grant was awarded as a new supplement to the NC State Superfund Center, led by Dr. Carolyn Mattingly. It will fund 2 years of Nnamdi's effort toward this award!

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Utilizing Pine Needles to Temporally and Spatially Profile Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (2022) Environ Sci Technol.

Kirkwood KI, Fleming J, Nguyen H, Reif DM, Baker ES, Belcher SM. Utilizing Pine Needles to Temporally and Spatially Profile Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Feb 17. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06483. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35175744.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.…

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Collaborative paper featuring Jonathon's work highlighted in the news

https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/02/pine-needles-story-of-nc-pfas/

Pine Needles Tell the Story of PFAS in North Carolina

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toxpiR package posted on CRAN

An R package for the ToxPi framework has been assembled and posted to CRAN:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/toxpiR/index.html

 

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Demonstrating a systems approach for integrating disparate data streams to inform decisions on children's environmental health (2022) BMC Public Health

Hubal EAC, DeLuca NM, Mullikin A, Slover R, Little JC, Reif DM. Demonstrating a systems approach for integrating disparate data streams to inform decisions on children's environmental health. BMC Public Health. 2022 Feb 15;22(1):313. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12682-3. PMID: 35168583; PMCID: PMC8845296…

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The inTelligence And Machine lEarning (TAME) Toolkit for Introductory Data Science, Chemical-Biological Analyses, Predictive Modeling, and Database Mining for Environmental Health Research

Professor Julia Rager led development of the the inTelligence And Machine lEarning (TAME) Toolkit for Introductory Data Science, Chemical-Biological Analyses, Predictive Modeling, and Database Mining for Environmental Health Research. 

 

 

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Dylan Wallis wins 3rd place or presentation at the NC Society of Toxicology annual meeting

Dylan Wallis won 3rd place at the NC Society of Toxicology annual meeting for their presentation "Leveraging a High-Throughput Screening Method to Identify Mechanisms of Individual Susceptibility DIfferences in a Genetically Diverse Zebrafish Model"

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Adrian Green wins Postdoctoral Award from Computational Toxicology Special Section of SOT

Adrian Green won the Elsevier Postdoctoral Award from the Computational Toxicology Special Section (CTSS) of the Society of Toxicology (SOT)! 

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Preethi, Nnamdi, and Dylan volunteer to help register participants for GenX study

Preethi Thunga, Nnamdi Osakwe, and Dylan Wallis have been volunteering for weekend efforts to recruit participants for the GenX study, led by Dr. Jane Hoppin.

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