Sentences with phrase «of environmental toxicology»

The water flea, Daphnia magna, is the canary of environmental toxicology.

Proceedings of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 30th annual meeting in North America, November 19 - 23, New Orleans, LA.

Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Abstract 207, November 11, 2014, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Smitha Pillai from the Eawag Department of Environmental Toxicology and her colleagues from EPF Lausanne and ETH Zürich studied the impact of various concentrations of waterborne silver ions on the cells of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

She recently was recognized for outstanding contributions to support the agricultural science industry and was selected as the Vice President of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

The CRA programme is an initiative of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Europe.

Publications resulting from work under the Fellowship should bear the following statement: «This work was supported by the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Doctoral Fellowship, sponsored by the Procter & Gamble Company.»

Within the framework of its commitment to encourage promising scientists, ECETOC supported the Young Scientist Best Platform Award at the 2007 SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry) Europe Annual Meeting, 20 - 24 May 2007 in Porto, Portugal.

Published on behalf of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is multidisciplinary in scope and publishes papers describing original experimental or theoretical work that significantly advances understanding in the area of environmental toxicology, environmental chemistry and hazard or risk assessment.

Procter & Gamble Statement on the Use of Animals in Research is not officially endorsed by and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).

Further information: Professor Kristin Schirmer, Head of Environmental Toxicology Department, [email protected]; [phone]

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.

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.

«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.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 72 (21 - 22): 1262 - 71.

But according to a 2009 report in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, there isn't nearly enough acrylic acid in disposable diapers to raise concern.

According to a 2009 report in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, the amount of citral in a typical scented diaper should be about a million times too low to cause any trouble.

«Only high - quality studies will be included in the final summary, regardless of where the authors were employed or who funded the study,» said Gray, a biologist in the reproductive toxicology division at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health effects of BPA based on recent findings indicating that a new assessment of this ubiquitous chemical is now needed.

Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»

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.

«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.

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.

It is a large field comprised of professionals from many scientific and educational disciplines such as anatomy, animal science, comparative biology, engineering, environmental science, ethics, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, and toxicology.

The new head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program is attempting to uncover what role chemicals and contaminants may play in human health

«Given that approximately 12 percent of human cancers worldwide may be attributed to viruses, and there are no vaccines currently available for these five viruses, prevention strategies to reduce the infections that can lead to cancer are even more critical,» said Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP).

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.

Yesterday, French Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault announced that the High Council for Biotechnology (HCB) and the Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety have been asked to look into the study, headed by Gilles - Eric Séralini of the University of Caen and published by Food and Chemical Toxicology this week.

«It's a significant problem,» says Jef French, acting chief of the Host Susceptibility Branch of the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

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

In the United States, most graduate and postgraduate toxicology training is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), particularly the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which provides training grants to universities.

First up is Mike McClure, chief of the Organs and Systems Toxicology Branch of the Division of Extramural Research and Training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

Many junior government toxicology jobs also are integrative, requiring a big - picture view of data from environmental sampling, epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and animal and cell - based research.

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.»

«It involves toxicology, how chemicals go from air to water, exposure routes of environmental contaminants, and how to measure each one, leading to controls on how chemicals move through the environment.