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. 

Postdoctoral position - Johns Hopkins CAAT

The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing is searching for a postdoctoral fellow to map toxicity pathways, analyze and integrate multiple different data streams including, high-throughput screening data from the EPA ToxCast project.  For more information contact:

Dr. Andre Kleensang
Research Associate
akleensa@jhsph.edu
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe St., W7032
Baltimore, MD, 21205
phone: +1-410-614-4971
fax: +1-410- 614-2871 

Spotlight on Bob Krieger's Research

 For many years ETOX faculty member, Bob Krieger (pictured above) and his graduate students have studied pesticide exposure in farm workers.  Their research on exposure to strawberry workers was recently spotlighted by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources online news.  The article describing his work can be found here.  Be sure to watch the online video which features Gayatri Sankaran (pictured above), one of his ETOX graduate students, and Bob describing their work.  Our congratulations to Bob and Gayatri for this recognition of their research.