AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Washington, DC: Nov. 3-7, 2007

Graves JM, Daniell WE, James F, Milgrom P. Drinking water fluoride concentrations and baseline prevalence of dental fluorosis among elementary school children on San Juan Island, Washington

Graves JM, Milgrom P, Tut OK. Development of a sustainable and prevention-oriented oral health intervention for early childhood programs in the Pacific Islands

Wickizer TM, Franklin GM, Fulton-Kehoe D, Mootz R, Smith-Weller T. Improving the quality care in workers' compensation through a communitywide intervention: Did the IOM get it right?

Wickizer TM, Franklin GM, Fulton-Kehoe D, Smith-Weller T, Mootz R. Can quality improvement activities encourage physicians to adopt best practices in the delivery of care? Evidence from a quality improvement project in Washington State

Janessa Graves received a student scholarship from the APHA Environment Section.

UW/UBC OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE AT SEMIAHMOO
Blaine, WA: Jan. 3-4, 2008

Kissel J. Use of biomarkers in modeling dermal exposure

Adar S, Allen R. Traffic noise: Spatial variation and relationship with air pollution

Camp J. Health and safety of cedar block cutters on the Olympic Peninsula—a pilot study

Firestone J. Preventing disability by improving workers compensation

Yost M, Larson T, Simpson C. The latest in community air pollution exposure assessment

Sathyanarayana S. Maternal pesticide use and birth weight in the Agricultural Health Study

Takaro T. Home environment intervention and children's asthma

Paulsen M. Development of diesel exhaust exposure biomarkers using LC/MS/MS and GC/MS

5th ANNUAL AIR QUALITY & HEALTH WORKSHOP
Vancouver, BC: March 28, 2008

Catherine Karr, Infant bronchiolitis

SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY
Seattle, WA: March 15-19, 2008

Browne EP, Tilton S, Stapleton H, Gallagher E. In vitro hepatic metabolism of PBDE congeners 99 and 209 by Chinook salmon

Chen J, Costa LG, Dao K, Oram JF, Guizzetti M. Retinoic acid affects cholesterol homeostasis in astrocytes: A new mechanism of teratogenesis?

Costa LG, Kavanagh TJ, Giordano G. Glutathione levels modulate the neurotoxicity of polybrominated mixture DE-71 in mouse neurons

Eaton DL. New concepts in the etiology of breast cancer: From gene to environment and back again

Echeverria D, Woods JS, Heyer N, Rholman D, Farin F, Li T. Associations between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and mercury for mood and behavior in humans

Faustman E. Lorenzana R. Fish: Brain food or brain poison?

Faustman E. Oceans and human health: Lessons learned from the Puget Sound

Fay KA, Simpson CD, Dills RL, Paulsen MH, White CC, Kavanagh TJ. Basic components of wood smoke particulate matter cause oxidative stress and caspase-dependent apoptosis in RAW 264.7 cells

Gallagher EP, J Shao, Tilton S, Moneypenny C. Human fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells as a tool for understanding in utero injury of transplacental chemicals

Gilbert SG, McHugh TE. Environmental Health & Community Review Board (EHCRB): Supplementing the traditional IRB

Giordano G, Li L, Kavanagh T, Costa L. Carbachol prevents oxidative stress-mediated apoptosis induced by domoic acid in cerebellar granule cells

Griffith WC, Vigoren EM, Faustman EM. Value of information analysis integrating diverse information sources to estimate variability of genotypes and phenotypes of CYP450 enzymes in metabolism of chlorpyrifos

Guerrette Z, Yu X, Hong S, Kim E, Faustman EM. Arsenic induces different cell signaling pathways leading to apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in p53 +/+ and p53-/- cells

Guizzetti M, Giordano G, Moore N, Costa LG. Ethanol inhibits hippocampal neuron differentiation induced by carbachol-treated astrocytes

Heyer NJ, Echeverria D, Woods JS, Farin FM, Li T. Dental mercury exposure, 5-HTTLTR status, and associations with self-reported symptoms

Jansen KL, Cole TB, Li W, Park S, Furlong CE, Costa LG. The role of paraoxonase (PON1) in modulating toxicity of OP mixtures

Koenig JQ, Mar TF, Primomo J. Associations between asthma emergency department visits and diesel emissions in Tacoma, WA

Krival SR, Botta D, White CC, Mohar I, McConnachie LA, Kavanagh TJ, Simpson C. Principle components and hierarchical cluster analyses of HPLC/ECD-derived liver metabolite profiles in glutamate cysteine ligase transgenic mice treated with acetaminophen

Krogstad F, Dusek E, Vigoren EM, Parker MS, Griffith WC, Simenstad CA, Faustman EM. Simultaneous analysis of domoic acid kinetics and ELISA assays to guide public health decisions for multiple shellfish species

Le QH, Hong S, Yu X, Faustman EM. The role of Nrf2 in domoic acid-induced effects on early neurodevelopment

Lefebvre KA, Tilton S, Bammler T, Beyer R, Janssen P, Farin F, Srinouanprachanh S, Gallagher E. Zebrafish: A tool for examining the effects of sub-acute algal toxin exposure in the vertebrate CNS

Li T, Woods JS. Comparison of coproporphyrinogen oxidase (CPOX) and its genetic variant (CPOX4) in human liver

Mohar C, White C, Kavanagh TJ. Acetaminophen-protein adducts are not sufficient for hepatocellular necrosis in mice: Modulation of toxicity by gender and glutamate cysteine ligase modifier subunit I

Moore N, Guizzetti M, Giordano G, Costa LG. Ethanol inhibits muscarinic receptor-induced release by astrocytes of extracellular proteins involved in neuronal development

Neff-LaFord H, Corey LM, White CC, Stewart J, Kaufman JD, Rosenfeld ME, Kavanagh TJ. Effects of glutathione depletion on pulmonary and splenic inflammatory cells following exposure to diesel exhaust

Peck EC, Stapleton PL, Grollman AP, Eaton DL. Activation of aristolochic acid to mutagenic metabolites by human CYP1A1, 1A2 and 3A4

Poulton EM, Eaton DL. Mutations in the PXR gene affect basal expression and inducibility, but do not prevent the ability of Sulforaphane to inhibit ligand binding to PXR

Robinson JF, Yu X, Hong S, Beyer R, Faustman EM. Comparative gene expression analysis in C57 mouse embryos undergoing neurulation exposed to cadmium and methylmercury

Scherer AC, Tsuchiya A, Younglove LR, Burbacher TM, Faustman EM. Fish consumption advisories: Toxicological risk and nutritional benefit messages to sensitive populations

Shao J, White CC, Dabrowski MJ, Kavanagh TJ, ML Eckert, Gallagher EP. The role of mitochondrial and oxidative injury in BDE 47 toxicity to human fetal liver hematopoietic stem cells

Simmonds PL, Martin MD, Leroux BG, DeRouen TA, Leitão JG, Bernardo MF, Luis HS, Kushleika JV, Woods JS. The contribution of dental amalgam to urinary mercury excretion in children

Tilton F, Pettebone V, Gallagher EP. Assessment of the in vivo consequences of PBDE exposure to the developing vertebrate utilizing the zebrafish model

Tilton SC, Shao JS, White CC, Kavanagh TJ, Gallagher EP. Mechanisms of chemically induced DNA damage by chlorpyrifos in the etiology of infant leukemia

Tsuchiya A, Hardy J, Burbacher TM, Faustman EM, Mariën K. Fish intake guidelines: n-3 fatty acid intake and contaminant exposure in the Korean and Japanese communities p>

VanDeMark L, Guizzetti M, G Giordano, LG Costa. Ethanol inhibits carbachol-induced axon outgrowth in hippocampal neurons by inhibiting ERK1/2 K

Vigoren EM, Krogstad F, Griffith WC, Faustman EM. Removing censorship bias from correlation estimates of data sets censored by limits of detection

Vitalone A, Costa L. Natural is not always safe: A lesson from the literature on the use of herbal products

Vredevoogd M, Yu X, Hong S, Faustman EM. Critical molecular pathways of neurogenesis in chlorpyrifos response

Yu X, Hong S, Faustman EM. Germ-line stem cells-gonocytes as an in vitro model for male developmental toxicity: Comparison from cytotoxicity to genomic responses to phthalates

The University of Washington hosted a Sunday night reception for alumni and friends at the Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Professor Elaine Faustman chaired a regional interest session, "Future paths for Puget Sound: Contaminants, cultures, and ecosystem risk characterization."

Professor Dave Eaton chaired a session titled: "New concepts in the etiology of breast cancer: From gene to environment and back again."

Professor Evan Gallagher chaired a session on "New insights for developmental toxicology."

Xiaozhong Yu, Bill Griffith, Hansel Ong, Melinda Vredevoogd, Elaine Faustman, and others won honorable mention in the "best paper" competition from the journal, Toxicological Sciences, Their paper was "A system-based approach to interpret dose- and time-dependent micro-array data: Quantitative integration of gene ontology analysis for risk assessment."