Toxicology Track

Weekly Newsletter of the MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology
Director: Norbert Kaminski/Editor: Lois Furry

November 5 , 2007, Vol. 30, Number 40

Seminars this week/Seminars upcoming/Grants/Conferences/Positions

Seminars this week

The Department of Chemistry presents Claudia Turro, Ohio State University, to speak on “Interactions of Excited States of Transition Metal Complexes with DNA: Potential Applications in Photodynamic Therapy and Switching” on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 11:20 a.m. in 136 Chemistry.

The Cell and Molecular Biology Program presents a research forum by Navneet Kaur, MSU on "Role of Ubiquitin Like Protein in Peroxisome Biogenesis and Function" on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 1 p.m. in 2245 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

The Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Program presents Ray Welsh, viral and tumor immunologist, University of Massachusetts, on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 4:10 p.m. in 1415 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

*The CIT is hosting a lecture by Albert E. Munson, director of the Health Effects Laboratory Division for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, entitled "Toxicology in an Occupational Government Laboratory" at noon on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at the Holden Hall Hunt Club. Lunch is included. Reservations required at tox@msu.edu.

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program presents J. Patrick Loria, Yale University, to speak on "Biophysical Characterization of Functional Enzyme Motions" on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. in 101 Biochemistry.

The Neuroscience Program presents Daniel Storm, University of Washington to speak on “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Memory Formation: Role of Signal Transduction Cross-Talk” on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. in 1425 Biomedical and Physical Sciences.

The Department of Physiology presents Maria Grant, M.D., University of Florida-Gainesville, to speak on "Endophelial Progenitor Disfunction in Diabetes" on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4 p.m. in 1425 Biomedical Physical Sciences.

*The Department of Epidemiology presents Anne Sweeney, Texas A&M Unviersity, to speak on "Endocrine Active Compounds and Reproductive Effects" on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. in C102 East Fee.

*Fulfills seminar requirements for the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences Graduate Programs.  Seminars that fulfill this requirement are archived at http://www.cit.msu.edu/Graduate%20Program/seminars.html.

Seminars upcoming

*The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology presents Virginia Sanders, The Ohio State University, Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, to speak on "It Takes Nerve to Tell an Immune Cell What to Do" on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at noon in B448-9 Life Sciences.

*The Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation presents Alison Bauer, MSU, to speak on "The Role of Inflammation in Mouse Lung Tumorigenesis" at noon on Friday, November 16, 2007 in 101 Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, 4125 Beaumont Rd.

*Fulfills seminar requirements for the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences Graduate Programs.  Seminars that fulfill this requirement are archived at http://www.cit.msu.edu/Graduate%20Program/seminars.html.

Grants

New Funding:

Steven Bursian received $183,300 from Entrix, Inc. for Assessment of Furan Toxicity in Developing Avian Species.

Susan Ewart received $14,652 from the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Center for “Epidemiology of Asthma: Risk and Prognosis in a Cohort From Birth to Adolescence.”

John Goudreau, Seong Yu and Keith Lookingland received $499,481 from the U.S. Department of the Army for “Environmental Neurotoxin Exposure-Induced Nuclear-Mitochondrial Cascade Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration”; John Goudreau received $19,551 from the University of Rochester for “Randomized, Double-Blind, Active (Pramipexole 0;5 MG TID) and Placebo Controlled Efficacy Study of Pramipexole Given”, and $14,000 from Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for “A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Plecebo-Controlled Parallel Group Study of SLV308 as Adjunct Therapy to”; John Goudreau and Glen Ackerman and Alla Sikorskii received $40,770 fom the National Institutes of Health for “Michigan State University Parkinson Disease Clinical Center”; John Goudreau, received $16,663 and $25,881 from Teva Neuroscience Inc. for “A Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Start, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Study to Assess Rasagiline.”

Jack Harkema received $23,397 from the Electric Power Research Institute for “ICAPS: MSU Planning Project”; $46,621 from Vinyl Acetate Council for “Microscopic Examination of Neoplastic and Nonneoplastic Lesions in Nasal Airways of Rodents Exposed to Vinyl Acetate”; and $24,891 from the Environmental Protection Agency for “Mechanistic Indicators of Childhood Asthma (MICA).”

John Kaneene and Daniel Grooms, Carole Ann Bolin, Steven Bolin and Christopher Wolf, received $123,819 from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for “Michigan Jone’s Disease Control Program.”

Hui Li, Brian Teppen and James Tiedje received $367,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for “Geochemical Controls on the Expression of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Minerals.”

Laura McCabe and Vincent Bensan Young received $429,000 from the Crohns and Colitis Foundation for “Mechanisms of IBD Suppression of Skeletal Growth and Mineral Density”; Laura McCabe received $318,078 (supplemental) from the National Institutes of Health for “Diabetes/Osmotic Influences on Osteoblast Phenotype.”

Nigel Paneth received $75,500 from the National Institutes of Health for “Oxygen and Phototherapy in the Perinatal Period Risk of Acute Lymphoctyic Leukemia”; Nigel Paneth and Kenneth Frank, Madeleine Honig Lenski, and Mohammad Rahbar received $250,000 from the Michigan Department of Education for “Conductive Educational Evaluation Program for Children with Cerebral Palsy.”

Kenneth Rosenman received $28,087 from the Michigan Department of Community Health for “Sudden Cardiac Death Review.”

N. Edward Robinson received $18,055 from Stirling Products Ltd. for “Dose Range Finding Study of R-Albuterol (R-Salbutamol) in Horses with Heaves (RAO).”

James Tiedje and Terence Marsh received $395,536 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Metagenomics-Enabled Understanding of the Functions and Activities of Microbial Communities at ERSP Field Research”; James Tiedje received $350,000 from the U.S. Department of “Energy Integrated Genome-Based Studies of Shewanella Ecophysiology.”

Thomas Voice and David Long received $144,500 from the Fogarty International Center for “Training and Research in Environmental Health in the Balkans.”

Continuations, renewals and supplementals:

Jack Harkema and James Wagner received $23,560 (continuation) and $133,626 (continuation) from the University of Alabama for “Nasal Injury in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Ozone (Project 3 of Program Project - Postlethwait, PI).”

John Goudreau received $7,126 (continuation) from Teva Neuroscience Inc. for “A Multicenter; Double-Blind; Randomized Start; Placebo-Controlled; Parallel-Group Study to Assess Rasagiline.”

Colleen Hegg received $246,418 (continuation) and $195,746 (continuation) from the National Institutes of Health for “Injury - Evoked Regeneration Mechanism in Olfactory System.”

Norbert Kaminski received $305,896 (continuation) from the National Institutes of Health for “Impairment of B Cell Differentiation by TCDD.”

John LaPres received $320,875 (renewal) from the National Institutes of Health for “Hypoxia and an Epigenetic Mechanism for Toxicity.”

James Pestka received $93,991 (continuation) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for “Human Susceptibiligy to Trichothecene Mycotoxins”; and $317,782 (continuation) from the National Institutes of Health for “Mechanisms of Trichothecene Toxicity.”

Thomas Pinnavaia, Jetze Tepe, and John LaPres received $226,805 from the National Institutes of Health for “New Methods in Phosphoproteomics.”

Kenneth Rosenman received $866,831 (continuation) from the Center for Disease Control for “Enhanced Program in Occupational Injury and Illness Surveillance”; and $5,400 (supplemental) from the Michigan Farm Bureau for “Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation.”

James Tiedje, James Cole and George Garrity received $150,000 (continuation) from the National Science Foundation for “The Ribosomal Database Project: Automation, Integration and Education.”

Brad Upham and James Trosko received $348,226 and $5442 (continuations) from the National Institutes of Health for “Epigenetic Toxicity of Polycyclicaromatic Hydrocarbons.”

Thomas Voice and David Long received $23,750 (continuation) from the Fogarty International Center for “Training and Research in Environmental Health in the Balkans.”

Conferences and other events

The MSU Center for Integrative Toxicology (CIT) will host its Annual Research Evening on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 5:15 p.m. at the MSU Kellogg Center. This will be an opportunity to meet with CIT faculty and students in the graduate program in Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences (EITS) and to become acquainted with the toxicology-related research that students and postdoctoral fellows are doing campus wide. First-year students enrolled in cooperating, disciplinary PhD programs are especially encouraged to attend. Dinner is included. RSVP to Amy Swagart at swagart@msu.edu, 353-6469 by November 26, 2007.

The Fall Michigan Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology Meeting on"Lipidomics"will be held November 9, 2007 at the MSU Kellogg Center. Awards will be given for the best student and post-doc poster presentations. For late registration information, go to http://www.toxicology.org/isot/rc/michigan/misot.html.

Students in the Environmental and Integrative Toxicological Sciences program are reminded of the requirement for training in research ethics offered by the University. Specific information and a complete description of all the sessions in the Responsible Conduct of Research Seminar Series is available at the series' web site: http://grad.msu.edu/all/respconduct.htm.

Experimental Biology 2008 will take place April 5-9, 2008 in San Diego, California. Abstracts are being accepted until November 7, 2007. For more information, go to http://www.eb2008.org.

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicologic Pathology will take place June 22-26, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California. “Systems Pathology” is the theme of the 27th Symposium, which is divided into six half-day sessions. Abstract submission Deadline: April 1, 2008. For more information, go to https://www.toxpath.org/AM2008/index.asp.

Positions

The Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois offers a number of postdoctoral fellowships for talented young scholars. IGB Fellows spend two to three years doing collaborative work in one of several research themes at the Institute, and are expected to play a major role in catalyzing research among theme members. Fellows will receive a competitive salary, as well as a modest stipend for equipment and travel to scientific conferences. To apply, visit http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/fellows to learn more about specifi c theme research, available fellowships, and application procedures. Application deadline is January 15, 2008. Contact Information: Institute for Genomic Biology, 1206 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801; Phone: 217-244-2999.

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