Jessie Chappel won 'Best Poster' at the 2022 GSGSA Symposium for "A Novel Approach to Evaluating Disease Risk Through the Incorporation of Machine Learning and Lipidomic Data".
Authors: Jessie Chappel, Mary King, Rachel DeHoog, Livia S. Eberlin, David Reif, Erin Baker.
The Many Layers of Toxicology: A Multi-layered Approach to Understanding Exposure and Vulnerability
The journey from chemical exposure to adverse effect is long, complex, and often poorly understood. Differences in the effects of exposure can occur at the genetic, molecular, biological, or even g…
As a member of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC), David took part in the meeting "Peer Review of the EPA TSCA Screening Level Approach for Assessing Ambient Air and Water Exposures to Fenceline Communities."
On March 15-17, 2022, EPA will hold a public virtual meeting of the Scie…
Skylar Marvel was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 College of Sciences Award for Excellence! The awards ceremony will take place on March 18th.
An R package for the ToxPi framework has been assembled and posted to CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/toxpiR/index.html
Professor Julia Rager led development of the the inTelligence And Machine lEarning (TAME) Toolkit for Introductory Data Science, Chemical-Biological Analyses, Predictive Modeling, and Database Mining for Environmental Health Research.
Dylan Wallis won 3rd place at the NC Society of Toxicology annual meeting for their presentation "Leveraging a High-Throughput Screening Method to Identify Mechanisms of Individual Susceptibility DIfferences in a Genetically Diverse Zebrafish Model"
Adrian Green won the Elsevier Postdoctoral Award from the Computational Toxicology Special Section (CTSS) of the Society of Toxicology (SOT)!
Preethi Thunga, Nnamdi Osakwe, and Dylan Wallis have been volunteering for weekend efforts to recruit participants for the GenX study, led by Dr. Jane Hoppin.
David Reif has been provisionally appointed as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Workshop Committee to Support EPA’s Development of Human Health Effects Assessments. One workshop will address advances in the application of artificial intelligence and open data practices in chemi…
Adrian Green and David Reif partnered with colleagues Carolyn Ring (U.S. EPA), John Wambaugh (U.S. EPA), and Alicia Frame (Neo4j) to propose the SOT session “Deep Learning and Graph Algorithms: New Approaches in Computational Toxicology”. The session has been finally accepted with the following deta…
Ricardo's has been selected as the Elliot S. Vesell Award Winner for the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology
Functional Follow-Up of GWAS Associated SNP Effects in tThe RYK and MKXAS1 Genes Associated with Drug Response Variation of Monotherapy Temozol…
The assembly of the T5D zebrafish genome (Robyn Tanguay's SARL) generated from work originally published in Balik-Meisner et al. (2018) EHP is now posted on the UCSC Genome Browser at: https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?hgsid=1188472611_nj0P3fujyLPJBDKvH4WCncYUDE1b
We'd like to thank Dr.…
Alison Motsinger-Reif & David Reif were interviewed for the #COVIDcalls podcast.
https://covidcalls.podbean.com/e/ep-315-biostatistics-computational-biology-in-covid-19-hosted-by-kim-fortun/
Adrian presented "LEVERAGING HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING DATA, DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, AND CONDITIONAL GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS TO ADVANCE PREDICTIVE TOXICOLOGY" at ISMB/ISCB 2021.
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021
In a very creative analysis, Benjamin Detringer and Stephen Detringer used ToxPi as a visual analytic for baseball statistics!
As new and complicated baseball statistics have proliferated, the authors used ToxPi to synthesize complex MLB player performance metrics into summary graphics and stati…
David Reif was named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC) for a four-year term by Administrator Michael Regan. The Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals provides independent scientific advice, information and recommendations to the EPA Of…
RASS Webinar: Syllabus - Introduction to Human Health Risk Assessment
https://www.toxicology.org/groups/ss/RASS/downloads.asp
