In the News

A recent paper by ETOX faculty members Connie Nugent and Jeff Bachant describing a link between telomeres and checkpoint pathways was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A news release with more details can be found in the InsideUCR news. Our congratulations to Connie and Jeff.

Postdoctoral position at LLNL

Dr. Ken Turteltaub contacted me about the availability of a postdoctoral position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The position involves working as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team of biochemists, toxicologists, chemists and physicists to study regulatory and metabolic processes in eukaryotic cells using the technique of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). The candidate will be involved in developing and applying methods for the quantitate analysis of metabolites and metabolic pathways in cells, animal models, and humans using radio-labeled precursors along with AMS analysis. If interested, please contact Dr. Ken Turteltaub at turteltaub2@llnl.gov or Dr. Graham Bench at bench1@llnl.gov.

Gan, LaRive and Yan Named AAAS Fellows

Our congratulations to ETOX faculty members, Jay Gan, Cynthia Larive and Yushan Yan who were recently named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jay was recognized "For distinguished contributions to the field of soil and environmental chemistry, particularly for understanding environmental fate and risks of pesticides and for efforts in resource protection."; Cynthia "For significant contributions in applying NMR diffusion measurements to characterize complex mixtures, polydisperse samples, and ligand-protein interactions."; and, Yushan "For distinguished contributions to the engineering of zeolite thin films and their applications to semiconductors, aerospace and space exploration." Our congratualtions to Jay, Cynthia and Yushan for this nice recognition. More details can be found at the UCR Newsroom.

Seasons Greetings from Riverside

Happy Holidays! Last year I posted pictures of the Mission Inn. This year I decided to post a few from a neighborhood near my home in Riverside. All are from a neighborhood (near the intersection of Chicago and Alessandro) where the residents line the streets with luminarios (traditionally, candles inside of paper bags). I hope you enjoy them. In addition, I wish you all a successful and happy New Year.

In the News

Last week, ETOX faculty member David Eastmond was interviewed by Nathan Baca of KESQ television in Palm Springs for a story about the presence of carbon tetrachloride in two local schools. The news station was interested in the health effects of carbon tetrachloride and its likely source. A news article based on the interview can be found here and a video clip of the interview that was broadcast can be found here. [On my computer, the second link brings up an error message but a pop-up window opens behind it and the video seems to run fine anyway. There is a short 16 sec. advertisement before the segment begins. The video can also be accessed from the first link by clicking the link found in the upper left portion of the screen.]

In the News

The research of ETOX faculty member Prue Talbot (and her CMDB graduate student Sabrina Lin) on the toxicity of smoke from harm reduction cigarettes to mouse embryonic stem cells has recently been spotlighted in the UCR newsroom. Prue recently presented this work to our students at a recent ETOX seminar as well. Access to the new release can be found here.

Position at Health Canada

I recently received information about the following position.

Health Canada is seeking potential candidates for a staff Research Scientist position in situated in Ottawa, Canada. This is the position left vacant by the retirement of George Douglas earlier this year. It does not involve any management or administrative duties; it is strictly a research position. It is a permanent position with laboratory, support staff, and base budget. The successful candidate would conduct research on the applied aspects of mutagenesis (primarily in vivo) in relation to environmental pollutants. The announcement was sent as a pdf document and contains additional information. If interested, please contact me (david.eastmond@ucr.edu) and I will forward it on to you.