UC Toxics News: Fall 2001
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Best Poster Award Recipient Presents TSR&TP Research in the Netherlands by Mika Pringle Tolson

 

 

 

 

Daniela Oltean in Amsterdam during a break in the Society for Invertebrate Pathology meeting. Courtesy photo.

Daniela Oltean, winner of the first TSR&TP Best Poster Award at the 2001 Symposium, was invited to speak on her TSR&TP supported research at the Society for Invertebrate Pathology international meeting in the Netherlands in August 2001. The TSR&TP award included a $500 prize to present her research at a scientific meeting.

The meeting focused on the role of bacteria, viruses, fungi, nematodes and protozoa in invertebrate pathogenesis. This year marked the 100th anniversary of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) in Japan and the 25th anniversary of the discovery of a mosquitocidal Bt strain in Israel. Oltean, whose research focuses on the mechanism of toxicity of Bt crystal proteins against insect pests, was invited to give a 30 minute presentation in a symposium at the meeting called "Novel receptors for Bacillus thuringiensis toxins". Bt-based insecticides have served important roles as biological insect control agents for agricultural pests and vectors of human diseases such as mosquitoes.

"TSR&TP funding helped tremendously to complete experiments for my PhD dissertation", says Oltean. " I was honored to have the program recognize the importance of our research that was recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry."

Oltean is a UC Riverside doctoral student in Environmental Toxicology, supported by the TSR&TP's lead campus program in Mechanisms of Toxicity.

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