Sentences with phrase «environmental toxicology»

«There have been rumours that the victims might fake the disease,» says Birger Heinzow, a member of the IMCB and director of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology in Kiel, Germany.

«Having worked in a lab really did help me because I was comfortable with the science,» Ufnar says, referring to her Ph.D. research in environmental toxicology at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

«During the 1990s and early years of this century, the primary EPA source of funding for research on chemicals in our environment was the Science to Achieve Results — or STAR — program,» said Richard Di Giulio, Sally Kleberg Professor of Environmental Toxicology at Duke.

1997 Environmental Toxicology Manager at the Agency's National Centre for Ecotoxicology and Hazardous Substances in Wallingford

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Project description The PhD student position will be associated with projects concerning environmental toxicology and epigenetic mechanisms.

Dr. Gary Banker, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology Oregon Health and Science University, USA, will give a guest lecture on Monday 11 June 2007 at 1400 in the Lunch Room, Department of Anatomy, University of Oslo, with the title:

Now a student at UC Davis, he is majoring in environmental toxicology with an emphasis in molecular and biomedical toxicology and a minor in education, and he continues to do research in a neurogenomics lab at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience.

Ms. Phillips received a master's degree in environmental toxicology from Duke University and an undergraduate degree in biology from Albright College.

Dr. Volpe goes on to summarize how the revolution in genomics technology can help environmental toxicology study.

Consults with and provides technical assistance to the public and other state or federal agencies regarding environmental toxicology and contamination.

The birds that ate the pesticides lost weight, study coauthor Margaret Eng reported November 15 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.

«These effects are characteristic of crude oil toxicity,» said co-author Andrew Whitehead, an assistant professor of environmental toxicology at UC Davis.

Claire Wilkins spoke to Environmental Toxicology Manager Geoff Brighty about his scientific career within the Environment Agency.

He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry and a B.S. in Environmental Toxicology, both from the University of California at Davis.

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America annual meeting, Minneapolis, November 15, 2017.

On his walls are framed scientific illustrations of fish, and a rack of well - appointed fishing rods stands in front of academic books and journals dealing with fisheries ecology, habitat restoration and environmental toxicology.

Indeed, a unique aspect of this program has been its flexibility; students are able to pursue several alternative routes to a degree — through math, ecology, computer science, or environmental toxicology — all within the mathematical ecology program.

«This work is the first attempt to quantify the overall risk of POPs for the Arctic ecosystem and to define a ranking in order to highlight the most dangerous chemicals in the mixture,» said Sara Villa co-lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

Lead author Anthony Carpi, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Dean of Research at John Jay College, City University of New York, said, «We were delighted to see the impact that undergraduate research experiences have on our students» career plans.

Ingesting even small amounts of oil can interfere with the animals» normal behavior, researchers reported November 15 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.

Caterpillars that nibble through polyethylene plastic cultivate a diverse community of digestive bacteria that process the plastic, researchers reported November 13 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.

More than 50 % of the frogs in Yosemite National Park and 15 % of those in Sequoia National Park and the Lake Tahoe area had diazinon in their tissue, the researchers will report in the February issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry used American dippers to determine if run - of - river (RoR) dams altered food webs and mercury levels at 13 stream sites in British Columbia.

The laboratory studies, reported at the 7 - 11 November meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Portland, Oregon, are part of a growing effort to determine how pollution affects fish behaviour, rather than just their anatomy or physiology.

Acids naturally found in the organic matter of soil, collectively called humic acid, can protect rice seedlings from the cell damage and stunted root growth caused by copper oxide nanoparticles, researchers report April 13 in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

The results appear in the November 24 online issue of Environmental Toxicology, and will be published in the January 2016 print issue.

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America Annual Meeting, November 13, 2017.

Condor Watch allows us to engage a team of citizen scientists to tap into this wealth of information,» said Myra Finkelstein, an adjunct professor of environmental toxicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

These are some of the highest - ever recorded levels in wild birds,» said Matt Zwiernik, an assistant professor of environmental toxicology at Michigan State University who led the testing.

While human lung toxicity of these particles is not yet known, a preliminary biotoxicity test by Hochella and Richard Di Giulio, professor of environmental toxicology, and Jessica Brandt, a doctoral candidate, both at Duke University, indicates that the particles do indeed have toxicity potential.

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

The effect of pharmaceuticals and other contaminants of emerging concern on the environment will be addressed in a special issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C).

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And at a November 2006 conference at the University of California at Davis's M.I.N.D. Institute, Pessah gathered experts to discuss the clinical implications of environmental toxicology in autism.

So far in her career, Moore has toured several major subfields of toxicology: environmental toxicology, chemical analysis, risk assessment, and the study of basic toxicity mechanisms.

Karen Ottemann, an associate professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology at University of California, Santa Cruz stresses, «We need diversity in science.

After her Ph.D. in molecular and environmental toxicology at the University of Wisconsin Lisa Van Pay started a postdoc at Harvard University needing to «publish a lot and quickly.»

Frank Mastrocco, Pfizer's director of environmental toxicology, agrees.

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

At the North American branch of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's 31st annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 8 November, environmental chemists warned that complex interactions between chemistry and climate change might be making chemicals more toxic and the environment more susceptible to damage.

New research published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry addresses the effects of two broad - spectrum systemic insecticides, fipornil and imidacloprid, on honeybees.

A group of environmental health researchers, led by Trevor Penning, PhD, director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, published their findings this month in Environmental Health Perspectives.

For lack of a better term, I'll call this new science human envirogenomics, the fusing of environmental toxicology and genetics, two fields that until recently didn't interact much with each other.

«This is good news for the wildlife and people of the Arctic who survive by hunting caribou and other animals,» said Adam Morris, a PhD student in the School of Environmental Sciences and lead author of the study published recently in Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry.

Before joining the Center, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Oregon Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, studying the links between exposure to environmental toxicants and cancer.