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Community Outreach Core holds web conference on communication tools

Thursday, 04 June 2009 10:10
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At the request of Community Outreach Core partner Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, BU SBRP Community Outreach Core staff held a web conference on the use of RSS feeds and wikis. Staff members from numerous chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility attended the web conference held on June 2.

The RSS portion of the presentation focused on receiving feeds to stay informed and publishing feeds to reach stakeholders. RSS feeds can be used by non-profit organizations to monitor news and academic literature in their issue areas, identify potential funding opportunities, and identify collaborative opportunities with partner organizations. The benefits of publishing RSS feeds as an alternative to email alerts were discussed.

The wiki portion of the presentation focused on the use of private wikis for collaboration. Participants learned how to choose a wiki that fits their needs as well as strategies to promote the use of wikis among colleagues.

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An introduction to RSS
Wiki basics: Using wikis to enhance collaboration




 

New publication in Water Quality, Exposure, and Health

Friday, 08 May 2009 13:49
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A new article by researchers from Project 1 and Project 2 titled "Exposure to tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of pregnancy loss" has been published in the inaugural issue of Water Quality, Exposure, and Health. The investigators sought to determine if exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water on Cape Cod between 1969 and 1983 measurably affected the incidence of pregnancy loss. Women who were pregnant during this period were included in the study and maternal prenatal exposure to PCE was modeled. The results of the study suggest that prenatal PCE exposure at the levels experienced by this population does not increase the risk of clinically recognized pregnancy loss. Several previous studies found an increased risk of pregnancy loss among women exposed to PCE and mixtures of solvents in occupational settings. Because PCE remains a commercially ubiquitous solvent and a common contaminant of ground and drinking water supplies, the effect of PCE exposure on pregnancy outcomes remains an important topic of investigation.
Last Updated ( Monday, 11 May 2009 11:53 )
 

New publication from the Bioinformatics Core

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:50
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A new article by BU SBRP trainees Dmitri Beglov, Gwo-Yu Chuang, David Hall, and Bioinformatics Core PI Sandor Vajda has been published in Bioinformatics. The authors sought to develop computational methods to identify the most druggable pockets of target proteins. The location of these “hot spot” regions of proteins can be determined experimentally at considerable cost. The authors developed an algorithm that performs a global search of the entire protein surface for regions that bind a number of small organic probe molecules. Improving the efficiency of finding the most druggable pockets of target proteins and identifying molecular fragments or functional groups that tend to bind will have important benefits in the drug design process. The same technology is being used to identify protein sites that interact with known toxicophores and to determine the importance of such interactions with particular receptors.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:13 )
 

New publication from Projects 2 & 1

Wednesday, 04 March 2009 10:51
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BU SBRP researchers Verónica Vieira (Project 2), Tom Webster (Project 2), Ann Aschengrau (Project 1) and BU SPH researcher Janice Weinberg have recently published an article in Environmental Health. The article, “Spatial analysis of bladder, kidney, and pancreatic cancer on upper Cape Cod: an application of generalized additive models to case-control data,” features innovative methods developed by Project 2 to investigate disease clusters. Assuming 15 year latency, the authors found a significant spatial clustering of bladder cancer near Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR) groundwater plumes, suggesting that further investigation is needed.

 

Howard presents in Brown SBRP Seminar Series

Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:25
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On February 6, BU SBRP researcher Dr. Greg Howard (Research Translation Core) presented a seminar in Brown University's SBRP Seminar Series. Dr. Howard's presentation, "Learning to add: Assessing the combined effects of similarly-acting toxic exposures," highlighted his dissertation research, conducted with Project 2 PI Tom Webster and Project 4 PI Jennifer Schlezinger. This research has resulted in a new model to better predict outcomes of some types of complex mixtures of environmental toxicants.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:35 )
 
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