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What's happening in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology?

Congratulations!

• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Allard on his election as Vice President-Elect of SCSOT
• 2025- Congratulations to previous Molecular Toxicology T32 Postdoc, Adam Filipowicz for his appointment as postdoctoral representative of SCSOT
• 2025 - A recent publication of Integrated hepatic transcriptomics and metabolomics identify Pck1 as a key factor in the broad dysregulation induced by vehicle pollutants. This study was co-authored by current EMT students; Rajat Gupta, Siri Langmo, and Allen Louie and faculty members Xia Yang and Dr. Jesus Araujo.
• 2025 - Rajat Gupta, an EMT student, was recently awarded with the Society of Toxicology Outstanding Graduate Student Leadership Award by the Inhalation and Respiratory Specialty Section (IRSS).
• 2025- Rajat Gupta, an EMT student, was recently awarded the Dr. Laxman Desai Graduate Student Best Abstract Award by the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin-SOT (ASIO-SOT)
• 2024 - Recent T32 Post Doc with Dr. Patrick Allard, Adam Filipowicz received the SoCal SOT Fall Meeting award!
• 2024 - Recent Environmental and Mol Tox graduate, Candace Chang, had her project featured as Extramural Paper of the Month by the NIEHS' newsletter, Environmental Factor.  Congrats to Candace and the Araujo Lab!  
• Congratulations to Environmental and Molecular Toxicology graduate Merel Dagher for receiving an IRACDA fellowship!  She will be pursuing her postdoctoral studies in Dr. Catherine Cahill's lab in the Dept. of Psychiatry at UCLA.
• Environmental and Molecular Toxicology trainees present at SOT 2024 in Salt Lake City!
  • Caroline Cherry - Mechanisms of airway injury following woodfire exposure 
  • Zac Zamora - Comparative meta-analysis of liver transcriptome across short-and long-chain PFAS reveals converging molecular pathways
  • Max Levenson - BPA drives transgenerational negative reproductive outcomes in C. elegans through disruption of the synaptonemal complex
  • Adam Filipowicz - Neonicotinoid-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration in C. elegans
• Allen Louie, a Mol Tox student, recently published two articles with his former group from UC Berkeley!  Check out his articles: "A systematic evidence map of chronic inflammation and immunosuppression related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure" and "Mapping the key characteristics of carcinogens for glyphosate and its formulations: A systematic review."
• Rajat Gupta, one of our Environmental and Molecular Toxicology students, was awarded third place in the poster competition at the Southern California Chapter of SOT in San Diego, October 2022.
• Samuel Delk, one of our Environmental and Molecular Toxicology students, was awarded a T32 fellowship as part of the Vascular Biology Training Grant. 
• 2022-2023 T32 Recipients: Graduate students Candace Chang, Marisol Arellano, Allen Louie, and Thomas Kowal-Safron, and postdocs David Gonzalez and Adam Filipowicz. 
• Rajat Gupta, one of our Environmental and Molecular Toxicology students, recently published his paper, "Electronic and Tobacco Cigarettes Alter Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Oxidative Biomarkers." His interests in research include studying the role of oxidative stress in vascular disease and the mechanisms of how air pollutants promote atherosclerosis as well as cardiovascular diseases. Please click here for more details.
• Abigail Bline, one of our Environmental and Molecular Toxicology students, will be co-chairing and presenting her work entitled "PFASs Impair Meiotic Progression and Alter Ribonucleoprotein Granule Dynamics in C. elegans" in Platform 7: Detecting Rare Mutations, Gene and Germ Cell Toxicity symposium at the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society annual meeting.
• Dr. Lisa Barnhill, Hiromi Murata, Dr. Jesus Araujo, and Dr. Jeff Bronstein (former student, current student, and faculty of the Environmental and Molecular Toxicology IDP, respectively) were selected for the August 2020 NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month.
• Courtney McClure, one of our Mol Tox students, was elected as the Graduate Student Representative of the Systems Biology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology in 2020.