TSR&TP Symposium featured poster sessions and talks on atrazine, fire retardants, safer insecticides, and career advice for PhDs.
TSR&TP Program Ends July 1, 2010
The TSR&TP was not selected for continued funding of multicampus research programs from the UC Office of the President. The program will end July 1, 2010.
Best Publication Awards
The TSR&TP has selected a paper for the final Best Publication Award to highlight important research in the area of toxic substances.
Symposia and Meetings
Our annual showcase for research supported by the TSR&TP was held at the Doubletree Berkeley Marina Hotel May 1-2.
Featured talks included atrazine and amphibians, fire retardants, safer insecticides, updates on nanotoxicology and green materials, and career advice for science PhDs.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Lawrence Livermore National Lab fellowship in drug metabolism and accelerator mass spectrometry
Research News
UC Berkeley Professor Tyrone Hayes has studied the effects of the commonly used herbicide atrazine on amphibian decline and discovered some unnerving implications for human health.
Fire retardants in furniture and children's products persist in homes causing unhealthy exposures and eventually ending up in sediments, bivalves, and marine mammals. Arlene Blum, UC Berkeley graduate and activist is working to change that.
This most recently developed class of pesticides is highly toxic to insects with little effect on mammals. John Casida and his research lab at UC Berkeley have determined the mechanism of toxicity.
TSR&TP researcher Asheesh Tiwary accidentally discovered a way to make potentially safer human heart medications from a compound in green tea while trying to find a better antidote for oleander poisoning in animals.
A UC Riverside group is using the electrostatic and magnetic properties of nanoparticles to help engineers design better wastewater treatment processess.
Trainee Mae Grace Nillos helped discover that a previously disregarded "inactive component" of pyrethroids can have estrogenic effects on male fish.
Announcements
- Nanotoxicology Investigators Awarded $24 million Center Grant
- Courtney Thomas Wins Best Poster at TSR&TP Symposium 2009
- Nomura and Xia Win 2008 Best Publications
The TSR&TP is a University of California Multicampus Research Unit supporting research on toxic substances in the environment and teaching of graduate students through funding of grants, fellowships, and lead campus programs.