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What's happening in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

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• 2025 - Dr. David H. Gonzalez, former EMT T32 Postdoc Trainee, recently published his paper, Inhalation of electrophilic and redox active electronic cigarette aerosol increases oxidative potential in the lung in an acute manner. In this paper, he presents a new methodological development for assessing the redox status in the lungs of mice exposed to toxicants such as electronic cigarettes. This study was co-authored by current EMT students Allen Louie, postdoc Rajat Gupta, and faculty members Dr. Jesus Araujo and Dr. Suzanne Paulson.
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Cherry on being named a recipient of the 2025 Chorafas Foundation Award, recognizing her outstanding research and achievements!
• 2025- Rajat Gupta's article, Diesel exhaust induces gut microbiome dysbiosis and reduced fecal acetate: Role of acetate supplementation, has just been published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Kowal on passing his thesis defense!
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Zacary Zamora on passing his thesis defense!
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Marisol Arellano on passing his thesis defense!
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Delk on passing his thesis defense!
• 2025- Congratulations to Allen Louie for being awarded a highly competitive Dissertation Year Fellowship award! 
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Caroline Cherry on passing her thesis defense!
• 2025- Congratulations to Dr. Rajat Gupta on passing his thesis defense!
• 2025- Presentations at Society of Toxicology 
  • Adam Filipowicz (Imidacloprid and flupyradifurone cause dopaminergic neurodegeneration)- Poster
  • Marisol Arellano (Fungicide-induced aminergic neuron toxicity, neuroinflammatory response, and alterations in autophagic flux in a zebrafish model)- Poster
  • Allen Louie (Heme oxygenase-1 Modulates Inflammation and Macrophage Polarization Induced by Ultrafine Particles in Bone Marrow-Derived Macrophages)- Poster
  • Rajat Gupta (Ultrafine Particulate Matter Exposure Induces Gut Dysbiosis and Alters Fecal Short Chain Fatty Acids in Association with Worsened Atherosclerosis)- Poster
  • Caroline Cherry (T32) (Woodfire Smoke Induced Mucociliary Airway Injury is Preventable with MEK Inhibition)- Poster
  • Thomas Kowal (Integration of Ex Vivo Single Cell RNA Sequencing with In Vitro Bulk Transcriptomics to Optimize Selection of Immortalized Cell Lines for Hepatotoxicity Screening)- Poster
  • Zacary Zamora (Evaluating the Differential Metabolic Effects of GenX Exposure on Genetically Distinct Mouse Strains of Both Sexes)- Poster
  • Feng Gao (Leveraging autoencoders for high-dimensional epigenetics biomarkers-based cancer type prediction and pattern recognition)- Poster
  • Max Levenson (T32) (Wood smoke particulate matter promotes a stress response and negative reproductive outcomes in C. elegans)- Poster
  • Dylan Hatai (T32) (The Molecular Mechanisms of Perinatal E-cigarette-Induced Asthma)- Platform Presentation
  • Ingrid Cely (Sex-dependent effects of PFOA on pancreatic islets from pro-diabetic mice with human islet amyloid polypeptide transgene)-Poster
• 2025- Congratulations to EMT Student, Siri Langmo, on her appointment to the TRDRP Predoctoral Award!
• 2025- Congratulations on the appointments of Drs. Araujo, Gomperts, and Ritz to the UCLA Health Wildfire Steering Committee.
• 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)