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Blog posts : "computational toxicology"

Prioritizing Environmental Chemicals for Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes Research: A Screening Approach Using ToxCast High Throughput Data (2016) Environmental Health Perspectives

Auerbach S, Filer D, Reif D, Walker V, Holloway AC, Schlezinger J, Srinivasan 
S, Svoboda D, Judson R, Bucher JR, Thayer KA. Prioritizing Environmental
Chemicals for Obesity and Diabetes Outcomes Research: A Screening Approach Using 
ToxCast High Throughput Data. Environ Health Perspect. 2016 M…

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Reif co-authors National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report "Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense"

David Reif served as a member of an expert committee that authored the report "Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense". 

The official citation is:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Application of Modern Toxicolo…

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Reif part of multi-institute research team awarded EPA grant

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $6 million grant to fund a multi-institutional collaboration between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Bioinformatics Research Center at NCSU. 

More information is available from the BRC and from Tex…

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Toxicity testing in the 21st century beyond environmental chemicals (2015) Altex

Costanza Rovida, Shoji Asakura, Mardas Daneshian, Hana Hofman-Huether, Marcel Leist, Leo Meunier, David Reif, Anna Rossi, Markus Schmutz, Jean-Pierre Valentin, Joanne Zurlo, Thomas Hartung.Toxicity testing in the 21st century beyond environmental chemicals. (2015) Altex 32 (3), 171-181.

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High-throughput characterization of chemical-associated embryonic behavioral changes predicts teratogenic outcomes (2015) Archives of Toxicology

High-throughput characterization of chemical-associated embryonic behavioral changes predicts teratogenic outcomes (2015) Archives of Toxicology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26126630

(NOTE: Full-text available for free via link above or here)

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Computational Methods Used in Systems Biology (2015) Systems Biology in Toxicology and Environmental Health

Michele Meisner, David M Reif. "Computational Methods Used in Systems Biology" Systems Biology in Toxicology and Environmental Health: From the Genome to the Epigenome. Chapter 5, Pages 85-115. Elsevier.

http://store.elsevier.com/Systems-Biology-in-Toxicology-and-Environmental-Health/R…

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Bioinformaticists at the bench

The Reif Lab packed up their laptops and journeyed to Robert Tanguay's lab for a scientific retreat at Oregon State University.

The retreat was packed with scientific presentations, discussion, and socializing. A highlight was seeing the amazing, custom-engineered setup of the laboratory. Li…

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Use of Neural Models of Proliferation and Neurite Outgrowth to Screen Environmental Chemicals in the ToxCast Phase I Library (2015) Applied In Vitro Toxicology

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/aivt.2014.0009

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