Adrian Green presented a platform talk at the SOT session “Deep Learning and Graph Algorithms: New Approaches in Computational Toxicology”
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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.
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…
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…
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.
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
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.
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"
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)!
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.
David appointed to NAS Workshop Committee to Support EPA’s Development of Human Health Effects Assessments
David Reif has been provisionally appointed as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Workshop Committee to Support EPA’s Development of Human Health Effects Assessments. One workshop will address advances in the application of artificial intelligence and open data practices in chemi…
Final acceptance of SOT 2022 session “Deep Learning and Graph Algorithms: New Approaches in Computational Toxicology”
Adrian Green and David Reif partnered with colleagues Carolyn Ring (U.S. EPA), John Wambaugh (U.S. EPA), and Alicia Frame (Neo4j) to propose the SOT session “Deep Learning and Graph Algorithms: New Approaches in Computational Toxicology”. The session has been finally accepted with the following deta…
Ricardo Gonzalez wins Elliot Vesell Award for 2021 AACP!
Ricardo's has been selected as the Elliot S. Vesell Award Winner for the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology
Functional Follow-Up of GWAS Associated SNP Effects in tThe RYK and MKXAS1 Genes Associated with Drug Response Variation of Monotherapy Temozol…
The assembly of the T5D zebrafish genome is annotated and browseable on the UCSC Genome Browser
The assembly of the T5D zebrafish genome (Robyn Tanguay's SARL) generated from work originally published in Balik-Meisner et al. (2018) EHP is now posted on the UCSC Genome Browser at: https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?hgsid=1188472611_nj0P3fujyLPJBDKvH4WCncYUDE1b
We'd like to thank Dr.…
Podcast on Biostatistics & Computational Biology in COVID-19
Alison Motsinger-Reif & David Reif were interviewed for the #COVIDcalls podcast.
https://covidcalls.podbean.com/e/ep-315-biostatistics-computational-biology-in-covid-19-hosted-by-kim-fortun/
Adrian presents at International Society for Computational Biology conference
Adrian presented "LEVERAGING HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING DATA, DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, AND CONDITIONAL GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS TO ADVANCE PREDICTIVE TOXICOLOGY" at ISMB/ISCB 2021.
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021
Using ToxPi to visualize baseball
In a very creative analysis, Benjamin Detringer and Stephen Detringer used ToxPi as a visual analytic for baseball statistics!
As new and complicated baseball statistics have proliferated, the authors used ToxPi to synthesize complex MLB player performance metrics into summary graphics and stati…
David named to U.S. EPA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC)
David Reif was named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) for a four-year term by Administrator Michael Regan. The Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals provides independent scientific advice, information and recommendations to the EPA Of…
David interviewed by ABC11 News for story on pandemic community vulnerability
David Reif was interviewed by ABC11 News for the story "How do vaccines impact an area's risk for COVID-19?"
https://abc11.com/health/how-do-vaccines-impact-an-areas-risk-for-covid-19-/10821276/