Upcoming Activities of ebCTC

11/16-21/2008
ebCTC at 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Presentations by ebCTC members [abstracts]

9/15/2008
BioMaPS Lecture Series - Jie Liang, University of Illinois-Chicago "Computational systems bioengineering: From molecules to networks to cells" Rutgers Busch Campus, Biomedical Engineering, Room 102, 1:30 PM [link to BioMaPS Lecture Series]

Recent Activities of ebCTC

2008

6/29-7/3/2008
ebCTC at Protection and Restoration of the Environment IX (PRE9) Conference, Kefalonia, Greece. P.G. Georgopoulos presented a talk entitled "Mechanistic studies of environmental causes of human disease: a bionetwork dynamics modeling approach" [read abstract]

5/14/2008
CABM Seminar, 12:00 PM, Room 010, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers Busch Campus. James Manley, Columbia University speaks on "Mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene control"

5/7/2008
Miller Distinguished Lecture, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ. Frank J. Gonzalez of NIH speaks on "Mechanism of action of non-genotoxic hepatocarcinogens."

4/30-5/1/2008
2nd Annual SYSTEMS TOXICOLOGY SYMPOSIUM:
Multiscale Modeling, from Molecules to Organisms
A symposium presented by ebCTC at EOHSI, Piscataway, NJ. Free and open to the research community - over 100 attendees registered.

4/25/2008
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Seminar, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ. Lori White of Rutgers Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology speaks on "Interactions between the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and Ras/Raf signaling pathways in human melanoma cells."

4/14-17/2008
ebCTC at the International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation, Ottawa, Canada [abstract] [link to conference]

3/18/2008
ebCTC at SOT Annual Meeting & ToxExpo 2008 - "Toxicogenomic studies reveal the transsulfuration pathway as a possible mechanism for liver toxicity" (M. Chen, L.K. Schnackenberg, R. Holland, R.D. Beger, Q. Shi, S. Isukapalli, P.G. Georgopoulos, W. Welsh, W. Tong) [presentation | link to meeting]

3/12/2008
*Computational Toxicology Seminar at USEPA's Research Triangle Park, NC facilities: Dr. Ioannis Androulakis, of ebCTC, presented a talk on From data to models: Systems biology methods and potential applications to toxicoinformatics. [presentation]

2/28/2008
David DeMarini, of USEPA Environmental Carcinogenesis Division, presented a lecture on "Mutagenicity of air and water: mechanisms and biomarkers" at EOHSI

2/23-24/2008
ebCTC at MCBIOS 2008 - "Toxicogenomic studies reveal biosynthetic pathway of S-adenosylmethione as a possible hepatotoxic mechanism" (M. Chen, L.K. Schnackenberg, L. Guo, R. Holland, R.D. Beger, Q. Shi, S. Isukapalli, P.G. Georgopoulos, W. Welsh, W. Tong) [abstract] [link to meeting]

1/29-30/2008
ebCTC Science Days: An informal 2-day workshop with ebCTC researchers - "The path from ArrayTrack to ebTRack - Progress, Applications and Future Plans" at EOHSI.

1/22/2008
Max Garzon, of The University of Memphis, presented a lecture on "Synthetic Biology for Bioinformatics" at EOHSI.

2007

October-December 2007

12/20/2007
*Computational Toxicology Seminars by ebCTC researchers at USEPA's Research Triangle Park, NC facilities: Drs. Herschel Rabitz and Xiao-Jiang Feng of ebCTC and Princeton University presented a talk on "Optimal identification and analysis of bionetworks and biomolecules" [presentation]; Dr. William Welsh of UMDNJ presented a talk on "Molecular modeling studies of interactions between xenobiotics and liver nuclear receptors" [presentation]

12/6/2007
Kannan Krishnan of the University of Montreal and visiting scholar at EOHSI, presented a lecture on "PBPK Modeling of Interactions and Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures" as part of the EOHSI/NIEHS Seminar Series.

11/4-9/2007
ebCTC at the AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT [abstracts] [link to meeting]

11/1/2007
Yvan Rusyn, of the Carolina Bioinformatics Center, presented a lecture on "Genetical Genomics and Liver Toxicology: Making New Friends" as part of the EOHSI/NIEHS Seminar Series and met with the senior investigators and other members of ebCTC.

10/26/2007
ebCTC at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Fall Workshop - Environmental Risk Assessment of Metals and Metalloid, Camden, NJ [abstracts] [link to meeting] [posters available upon request]

10/25-26/2007
ebCTC at the First International Conference on Toxicogenomics Integrated with Environmental Sciences (TIES), Raleigh, NC [abstracts] [link to meeting]

10/14-18/2007
ebCTC at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Analysis in Durham, NC. [abstracts] [link to meeting]

10/9/2007
ebCTC Science Day: Researchers from the Princeton group lead presentations and discussions on Biological Network Dynamics in an informal session at EOHSI

July-September 2007

8/23/2007
ebCTC Science Day: Researchers from the Rutgers and UMDNJ groups lead discussions and presentations on Modeling of Chemical-Induced Carcinogenesis, at the Rutgers Department of Biomedical Engineering.

April-June 2007

5/21-23/2007
2007 International Science Forum on Computational Toxicology: Sponsored by USEPA at their main campus in Research Triangle Park, NC. ebCTC scientists presented several posters and also had a booth to present and discuss their work.

5/11/2007 and 5/18/2007
ebCTC Science Days: Researchers from the UMDNJ and Rutgers groups lead discussions and presentations on "virtual liver" technology in informal sessions at EOHSI.

4/26-27/2007
SYSTEMS TOXICOLOGY: Multiscale Modeling of Environmental Impacts on Bionetworks: A symposium presented by ebCTC and DIMACS, open to the research community

4/11/2007
*Computational Toxicology Tele-Seminar: Incorporating toxicogenomic data and approaches in risk assessment: Case study - phthalate esters (M. Ovacik, M.G. Ierapetritou, I.P. Androulakis, B. Sen, S. Euling, K. Gaido, P.G. Georgopoulos, W. Welsh)

January-March 2007

3/14/2007
*Computational Toxicology Tele-Seminar: Optimization Tools for in silico Proteomics (P.A. DiMaggio Jr., C.A. Floudas)

2/28-3/1/2007
ebCTC Science Days: The Science and Technology for a "Virtual Liver": An informal 2-day workshop where ebCTC and USEPA visiting scientists exchanged information and ideas on concepts and computational tools for multiscale bionetwork modeling, from cell to organ

2006

October-December 2006

12/13/2006
*Computational Toxicology Tele-Seminar: Cheminformatics Tools for Toxicant Identification and Characterization (W. Welsh)

11/17/2006
ebCTC 2006 Overview Workshop at EOHSI: Visitors from USEPA met with and viewed presentations and posters by ebCTC scientists.

10/11/2006:
*Computational Toxicology Tele-Seminar: A closed-loop identification protocol (CLIP) for nonlinear biological networks (X-J. Feng, G. Li, H. Rabitz)

July-September 2006

9/29/2006
ArrayTrack Training at UMDNJ: Dr. Weida Tong, of USFDA-NCTR, provided hands-on training for ArrayTrack software at UMDNJ.

9/19/2006
ebCTC Science Day: New Methods and Tools of Computational Proteomics: The research team of Prof. Chris Floudas hosted a workshop on Computational Proteomics at Princeton University.

April-June 2006

6/14/2006
*Computational Toxicology Tele-Seminar: Computational Tools for the Source to Outcome Paradigm (P.G. Georgopoulos)

*Computational Toxicology Seminar Series
STAR Environmental Bioinformatic Centers Seminar Series at USEPA: In order to best interface the activities of the Environmental Bioinformatic Centers with the research being conducted within USEPA-ORD, an information program has been established. Each month, one of Centers presents an overview of the activities covered under one of their major projects. These sessions are open to all EPA staff who are interested in helping the Centers achieve their long-term objectives. While the number of interactions that can be developed are limited by available resources, these forums can facilitate the development of collaborative research projects. After the initial round of informational briefing, this program will evolve into a forum for presenting advances in environmental bioinformatics that will assist ORD in supporting the mission of the EPA of protecting human health and the environment.

Announcement of STAR Center Award
11/2/2005
News Release
EPA Announced an Award of $9 million to Establish Two Cutting-Edge Environmental Bioinformatics Research Centers