The TOXI Division presents awards to the top presentations and poster for students and post-docs.
Top Oral Presentation.
Madjda Bellamri, Robert J. Turesky University of Minnesota
Mechanism of bioactivation of the cooked meat carcinogen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) in human prostate
Graduate student presentations
First Place
Stephanie Bamberger, Hope Pan, Ryan Bowen, Chanchal Kumar Malik, Tracy Johnson-Salyard, Carmelo Rizzo, Michael P. Stone. Vanderbilt University
Characterization of the 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-N5-(methyl)-formamidopyrimidine DNA lesion
Second Place
Daniel J. Laverty, Marc M. Greenberg. Johns Hopkins University
Abasic and oxidized abasic lesion bypass by DNA polymerase theta yields one- and two-nucleotide deletions
Post-doc Poster Presentations
First Place
Hong Mu, Nicholas E. Geacintov, Yingkai Zhang, Suse Broyde. New York University,
Lesion recognition in nucleotide excision repair: Relationship between the structural properties of adducts and initial binding of XPC to the damaged site
Scond Place
Kun Yang, Marc M. Greenberg. Johns Hopkins University.
Histone protein tails inhibit depurination of N7-methylated deoxyguanosine and form DNA-protein crosslinks with alkylated DNA in nucleosome core particles
Third Place
QingQing Wang, Liwei Weng, Clementina Mesaros, Ian A. Blair. University of Pennsylvania Absolute quantification of plasma fibulin-3 as a biomarker for asbestos exposure by immunoprecipitation-high resolution mass spectrometry
Graduate Student Poster Presentations
First Place
Jessica Murray, Meng Huang, Clementina Mesaros, Volker Arlt, Karam El Bayoumy, Ian A. Blair, Trevor M. Penning. University of Pennsylvania
Nrf2-Keap1 signaling and implications for the metabolic activation of nitroarenes
Second Place
Shaofei Ji, Orlando Scharer, Natalia Y. Tretyakova. University of Minnesota.
Polymerase bypass of DNA-protein and DNA-peptide cross-links
Third Place
Orrette R. Wauchope, Michelle M. Mitchener, William N. Beavers, James Galligan, Philip Kingsley, Ha-Na Shim, Thomas Blackwell, Thong Luong, Mark deCaestecker, Joshua P. Fessel, Lawrence J. Marnett. Vanderbilt University.
Mitochondrial M1dG levels linked to oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in disease