A major update to the ToxPi interface (version 2.1) is now available at:
This update includes major speed improvements (especially noticeable when clustering large datasets), the ability to zoom/pan on cluster dendrograms, as well as other refinements for GUI users.
Marissa Kosnik's submission to the 2018 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in San Diego has been selected as a Reviewers’ Choice Abstract. It means that the abstract scored in the top 10% of poster abstracts as determined by the reviewers’ score.
Kim To presented a seminar entitled "Developmental Toxicity of Engineered Nanomaterials in Zebrafish Embryos" at the BioLunch Seminar Series.
Scoping Plan to Assess the Hazards of Organohalogen Flame Retardants
https://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49937
Kyle Roell successfully defended his PhD, entitled "Statistical Methods for Assessing the Genetic Etiology of Synergistic Drug Interactions".
Dr. Kyle Roell is currently a postdoc with Stephanie Engel in the Department of Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill.
Marissa Kosnik presented a seminar at the Toxicology Seminar Series, entitled "Integration of disparate data to elucidate connections between
environmental factors and human health outcomes".
David Reif was a moderator and member of the planning committee for the National Academy of Sciences workshop "Informing Environmental Health Decisions Through Data Integration".
The workshop brought together thought leaders from diverse fields to explore the promise and potential pitfalls of e…
David Reif presented as part of a webinar organized by the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Undergraduate Educator Network.
More details can be found here, under the title "Don’t Sweat It…Three Dry Labs for Undergraduate Toxicology Programs":
A report on the SEAZIT (Systematic Evaluation of the Application of Zebrafish in Toxicology) Ontologies Workshop has been published:
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/iccvam/methods/dev-repro/ontologies-wksp-rept-2017.pdf
David Reif was a member of the Working Group that drew experts from around the world to a meeting in Lyon, France in order to evaluate the carcinogenicity of Benzene.
Summaries of the final evaluations are available in the Lancet Oncology article. The detailed assessments will be published as …
David presented a seminar at the annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society (EMGS), entitled: "Gene-Environment Interactions Associated with Differential Susceptibility to Chemical Exposure".
Michele Balik-Meisner successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Gene-by-Environment Interactions Associated with Inter-Individual Variation in Response to Chemical Exposure".
Michele will continue her research as a Bioinformaticist at Sciome.
Congratulations!!!
David Reif presented at the 2017 OpenTox USA meeting. Thanks to Barry Hardy and Noffisat Oki for the invitation to speak!
His seminar was entitled "Implications of Population Genetic Diversity for Safety Assessment."
David Reif presented at the joint meeting of the International Neurotoxicology Association & Neurotoxicity Society in Florianopolis, Brazil.
The seminar was entitled "Developing an Integrated Testing Strategy: Analytical methods to distill useful information from high-throughput screening of ch…
David Reif presented an invited talk at the 41st Annual ToxForum Winter Meeting in Washington, DC.
The talk, "Integrating Multiple Sources of High-Dimensional Data to Quantify Effects of Genetic Variability in Chemical Risk Assessment", was part of a session moderated by Julia Rager & Reza Rasoulpo…
David Reif presented as part of the ongoing Systematic Evaluation of the Application of Zebrafish in Toxicology (SEAZIT) webinar series.
Christy Sadler and colleagues have written a new multimedia article about the Bioinformatics "cluster" at NC State University.
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/the-proximity-principle
The term "cluster" is shorthand for the cluster hiring program known as the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Prog…
David Reif presented an invited talk at the 2016 Triangle Statistical Genetics Meeting. The event was hosted at SAS, Inc. by the Triangle StatGen Organizing Committee.
