Cranor's work highlighted by UCR

Carl Cranor, distinguished professor of Philosophy and ETOX faculty member, is profiled on the UCR Living the Promise website.  On the site, Carl describes his research and his ongoing interests in public health.  There is also a short video in which Carl Cranor gives a tour of his house and illustrated various household products and describes the associated chemicals of concern.  The website and the video can be found here.  Again, our congratulations to Carl for this recognition of his work. 

Curras-Collazo wins APS teaching award

Maggie Curras-Collazo, an ETOX faculty member and associate professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, was selected by the American Physiology Society to receive the 2013 ADInstruments Macknght Progressive Educator Award for her dedication to the teaching of undergraduate students.  The APS Education Committee indicated that it was impressed with a course that Dr. Curras-Collazo developed entitled Educational Training in Neuroscience Outreach which trains neuroscience majors at UCR with teaching skills that they use to educate members of the public.  Our congratulations to Maggie for this nice recognition.  More information can be found at the InsideUCR website.

Holiday Greetings

Below are several photos from this year's Christmas lights display at the Mission Inn in downtown Riverside.  I wish you all a happy holiday season. 

Yingsheng Wang's Research in Nature

Our congratulations to ETOX director Yingsheng Wang, his collaborators, and his research team whose work has found that the skin pigment mainly found in red-haired, fair-skinned individuals may contribute to the elevated risks experienced by these individuals for developing melanoma.  The work was published in the Oct. 31 issue of Nature.  For additional information, please seen this article in UCR Today.  

Photos from the ETOX Fall Social

Friday evening Oct. 12, ETOX Director Yinsheng Wang and his wife Shuli hosted a social at their home.  It was a nice evening with good food and great company and allowed us to get acquainted with the new graduate students.  Below are some photos from the event.  Our thanks for Yinsheng and Shui for hosting the get-together.

UCR well represented at SCC SOT meeting

The Southern California Chapter of the Society of Toxicology held its annual meeting on Oct.4 in Carlsbad, California at the ISIS Pharmaceutical facility.  The focus of the day's meeting was on epigenetics but also had a keynote presentation from Tom Kensler from the University of Pittsburgh/Johns Hopkins.  UCR was well represented with 13 in attendance - 9 graduate students (most from ETOX but several from CMDB program), 1 undergrad, 2 postdocs and 1 faculty member.  A number of the students presented their research and Ashley Swanson's poster was selected for the 3rd place award.  Our congratulations to Ashley and the other students for attending and presenting their research.  Below are photos from the event.

 Nicole, Dr. Eastmond, Ivan, Ashley, Pavan, Sandeep, and Poonam.  [The photo was taken by Virunya Bhat.] 

 Vasundhra, Sabrina, Rachel and Monique

 Nicole Sparks with her poster

 Vasundhra Bahl with her poster

Ashley Swanson receiving her poster award from Andrew Seacat, the SCC SOT President.

Ashley Swanson wins poster award

Ashley Swanson, a current ETOX student working in Dr. Yinsheng Wang's lab, was selected for the best student poster award from the Chemical Toxicology Division at the 244th annual meeting of the American Chemistry Society that was held in August in Philadelphia.  Her poster presentation was entitled, "Two polymerase model for accurate and efficient bypass at 8,5'-cyclopurine-2'-deoxynucleotides".  Below is a picture of Ashley and her poster.  Our congratulations to Ashley for this nice recognition.