The multi-dimensional embryonic zebrafish platform predicts flame retardant bioactivity. Truong L, Marvel S, Reif DM, Thomas D, Pande P, Dasgupta S, Simonich MT, Waters KM, Tanguay RL.Reprod Toxicol. 2020 Aug 19:S0890-6238(20)30196-9. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2020.08.007. Online ahead of print.PMID:…
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Dylan Wallis earns full PASS on PhD qualifying exam!
Dylan earned a full PASS on their qualifying exam and is now officially a PhD candidate in Toxicology!
The COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index (PVI) Dashboard: Monitoring County-Level Vulnerability Using Visualization, Statistical Modeling, and Machine Learning (2021) Environmental Health Perspectives
Marvel SW, House JS, Wheeler M, Song K, Zhou YH, Wright FA, Chiu WA, Rusyn I, Motsinger-Reif A, Reif DM. The COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index (PVI) Dashboard: Monitoring County-Level Vulnerability Using Visualization, Statistical Modeling, and Machine Learning. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 Jan…
David promoted to full Professor
David Reif was promoted to full Professor by the Department of Biological Sciences.
Dylan awarded scholarship to attend the 2020 Online Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG)
Dylan Wallis was awarded a registration scholarship to attend the 2020 Online Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG).
Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) Receives $7.6M Funding Renewal
David is co-Director of the Integrated Health Science Facility Core for the NIEHS P30-funded Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE). The press release announcing the grant renewal is here:
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/center-for-human-health-and-the-environment-receives-7-6…
In vivo assessment of respiratory burst inhibition by xenobiotic exposure using larval zebrafish (2020) Immunotoxicology
Drake W. Phelps, Ashley A. Fletcher, Ivan Rodriguez-Nunez, Michele R. Balik-Meisner, Debra A. Tokarz, David M. Reif, Dori R. Germolec & Jeffrey A. Yoder (2020) In vivo assessment of respiratory burst inhibition by xenobiotic exposure using larval zebrafish, Journal of Immunotoxicology, 17:1, 94-104,…
Adrian Green presents at Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
Adrian will present his work on Deep Learning Neural Networks for Toxicology with Martin Mohlenkamp and the Novel Applications team.
New P42 (Superfund Research Program) award: Center for Environmental and Human Health Effects of PFAS
See the full news release "NC State Receives $7.4 Million from NIEHS to Study PFAS Toxicity, Bioaccumulation and Remediation" @ https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/03/niehs-pfas-center/
David Reif and Denis Fourches will lead the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC) for the new center. More informat…
Adrian Green gives a class on Singularity containers for cluster computing
The class was given with Chris Smith of the Bioinformatics Research Center.
Adrian chairs session at the symposium "Interactions Between the Brain and the Environment"
Adrian Green chaired the opening session of the Fourth Annual CHHE Symposium.
This year's theme was the exploration of the importance of environmental exposures on the brain, behavior, and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Paper on social behavior effects of flame retardants (Gillera et al.) recognized as NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month
https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2020/1/papers/dert/index.htm
Gillera SEA, Marinello WP, Horman BM, Phillips AL, Ruis MT, Stapleton HM, Reif DM, Patisaul HB. 2019. Sex-specific effects of perinatal FireMaster 550 (FM 550) exposure on socioemotional behavior in prairie voles. Neurotoxicol Tera…
Establishment of a new FDA-sponsored Botanical Safety Consortium
David is co-Chair of the Data Analysis working group in the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Botanical Safety Consortium, a public-private partnership of industry, academia, and government that will promote scientific advances in evaluating the safety of botanical ingredients and mixtures…
HGBEnviroScreen: Enabling Community Action through Data Integration in the Houston–Galveston– Brazoria Region (2020) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Sharmila Bhandari, P. Grace Tee Lewis, Elena Craft, Skylar W. Marvel, David M. Reif, and Weihsueh A. Chiu. HGBEnviroScreen: Enabling Community Action through Data Integration in the Houston–Galveston–Brazoria Region. Int. J. …
David talks with aspiring scientists at the Computational Biology Club meeting
David talked to a group of undergrads interested in exploring careers in science as part of the Computational Biology Club.
Thanks for club president Pooja Parameswaran for organizing the event!
David joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Toxicology
David Reif has joined the Editorial Board of the Neurotoxicology specialty section of Frontiers in Toxicology.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/toxicology#editorial-board
David presents at UC Berkeley workshop on PFAS
David Reif presented as part of the UC Berkeley Superfund workshop on "The Problem of PFAS Contamination: How Can We Make Rapid Progress to Address it?"
David presented "Introduction to Grouping and Read-Across" with Gina Solomon (UCSF). He also chaired the session "Characterizing Toxicity – Usi…
Concentration-response evaluation of ToxCast compounds for multivariate activity patterns of neural network function (2019) Arch Toxicol
Kosnik MB, Strickland JD, Marvel SW, Wallis DJ, Wallace K, Richard AM, Reif DM, Shafer TJ. Concentration-response evaluation of ToxCast compounds for multivariate activity patterns of neural network function. Arch Toxicol. 2019 Dec 10. doi: 10.1007/s00204-019-02636-x. [Epub ahead of print] PubM…