Hwang-Verslues seminar at UC Riverside

Dr. Wendy Hwang-Verslues, an ETOX alumna who is currently an Assistant Research Fellow in the Genomics Research Center at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, came to campus on April 1st and presented a seminar on her ongoing research on breast cancer pathways.  The seminar entitled,  "Mechanisms underlying breast tumorigenesis -- Old concepts, new stories" was excellent and described a couple of avenues of research that her laboratory is pursuing.  Above is a recent photo of Wendy.  
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Shuo Liu presents seminar at UCR

 Today, Shuo Liu, an ETOX alumna, visited UCR and presented a seminar as part of the ETOX seminar series.  Her talk was entitled,  “METTL13 methylation of eEF1A increases translational output to promote tumorigenesis” and described her work that was recently published in the journal Cell.  The work is impressive and Shuo made a nice presentation.  Below is a photo of Shuo from the seminar.

Toxicologist position at the California Department of Pesticide Regulations

The California Department of Pesticide Regulations is looking to hire a new Associate Toxicologist.  The position requires a PhD or a Masters and 3 years of experience. The following URL provides more information and the links for submitting an application.

https://jobs.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=136695

 Our thanks to Shelley Du Teaux, the Chief for the Human Health Assessment Branch at CDPR who shared the information with us. 

Toxicologist positions at US Environmental Protection Agency

The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics at the USEPA is searching for toxicologists as well as other life and physical scientists.  More information is below and can be found at this link.  

Title	Biologist/Toxicologist/Physical Scientist/Chemist
Series & Grades Announced	GS-0401/0415/1301/1320-12/13
Full Performance Level	13
Location of Position	Washington, DC
Area of Consideration	U.S. Citizens
Position Type	Full-Time, Permanent
Opening Date	Thursday, April 11, 2019
Closing Date	Thursday, April 18, 2019
Number of Vacancies:	Many
Position Risk Designation	Moderate Risk

For questions regarding this job opportunity, you can also contact Sherron Gardner on 800-433-9633 or gardner.sherron@epa.gov.

Omaiye and Talbot Research Published in Chemical Research in Toxicology and Featured in UCR Today

The research of Ester Omaiye, Prof. Prue Tabot and their collaborators has been featured in a recent news release in UCR News.  In the related article published in Chemical Research in Toxicology,  Ester and her colleagues showed that Juul electronic cigarette fluids contained high levels of nicotine which correlated with their cytotoxic effects in human bronchial epithelial cells in culture.  We congratulate Ester and Dr. Talbot for this recognition of their work.

Postdoctoral positions at the EPA

The US EPA is looking to fill a number of postdoctoral positions.  If interested, please see the links below.

NCEA-04-03-2019-01

Environmental evidence assessments and evaluation of ecological and other welfare effects of pollutants 

NCEA-04-03-2019-02

Evaluation of human health effects of chemical exposures 

NCEA-04-03-2019-03

Atmospheric chemistry and air quality evaluations to support human health and environmental science assessments 

NCEA-04-03-2019-04

Tools and Applications for Human Health Risk Assessment: Modeling and Statistical Approaches

Vliet and Fernandez receive Science to Policy certificate

UCR has initiated a Science to Policy certificate program to train graduate students to better explain their research to the public and to prepare them to advise those who make policy.  Sara Vliet and Seth Fernandez, two ETOX students, took the class during Winter quarter 2019, and received certificates in a ceremony that took place last night.  Kudos to Sara and Seth for their willingness to develop skills in this area.  Below are photos that I took of the students and the event. I have also included photos of book marks/bumper stickers that each made describing their work. 

Seth Fernandez and Sara Vliet