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Jennifer Schlezinger Now Featured in the "Ask The Researcher" Column

Monday, 13 August 2007 12:00
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The BU Superfund Basic Research Program is now featuring toxicologist Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger of the BU School of Public Health in the current edition of the "Ask the Researcher" column. Dr. Schlezinger's research looks at whether aromatic hydrocarbons and phthalates impair immune system function. Click here to ask Jennifer a question or to read her answers.
 

Greg Howard To Present at ACS National Meeting

Sunday, 12 August 2007 12:00
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On Wednesday, August 22, 2007, Doctoral candidate Greg Howard will present a talk titled "Generalized concentration addition model predicts interactions of TCDD with partial agonist AhR ligands" at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Boston.  Greg's presentation will be part of a symposium organized by the Brown University SBRP titled "Environmental Contaminants at Low-levels and in Complex Mixtures."
 

Biomonitoring: The Challenges of Human Exposure Assessment

Wednesday, 18 July 2007 12:00
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On Wednesday July 25, 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is sponsoring a day-long conference titled "Biomonitoring: The Challenges of Human Exposure Assessment." Topics to be discussed at this conference include the growing laboratory capabilities for biomonitoring, the challenges in implementing biomonitoring programs at the state and local levels, and the legal issues surrounding biomonitoring.

Doctoral student Jessica Nelson will be displaying a poster and distributing the Consensus Statement from the Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring at this event.
 

Greg Howard Wins Award at SER

Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:00
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Doctoral student Greg Howard recently won the best poster award at the 2007 Society of Epidemiologic Research Conference in Boston, MA. In their poster titled "Contrasting Theories of Additivity, Synergy, and Antagonism in Epidemiology and Toxicology" Greg and Tom Webster (Project 2) investigated two simple models for continuous exposures and outcomes in order to contrast the epidemiologic and toxicologic approaches.
 

New Publication in Environmental Health

Sunday, 08 July 2007 12:00
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Tom Webster (BU SBRP Project 2) recently published a paper titled "Bias magnification in ecologic studies: a methodological investigation" in the journal Environmental Health. In this paper Dr. Webster examines bias in ecological studies and develops useful tools for analyzing ecological bias.

Environmental Health is an Open Access , peer reviewed, online journal.  All of the content in Environmental Health is available free of charge.
 
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