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Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
Welcome
Molecular and Environmental Toxicology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison focuses on biochemistry, carcinogenesis, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, neurobiology, proteomics, and xenobiotic fate and metabolism research in a collaborative, interdisciplinary community of high-caliber students, faculty members, and facilities.
Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center
1300 University Avenue
1530 MSC
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-4580
Fax 262-5245
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WELCOME to the Fall 2012 METC Graduate Students
Left > Right: Charles Yu, Josh Everson, Liz Miller, Carol Diaz-Diaz
Training Grant News - NIEHS K99 award, “Influence of Endocrine Disruptors on Reproductive Neuroendocrine” Function, 12/11 – 11/13Travis Schmit, PhD '10 - Postdoctoral fellowship, FRAXA Foundation, 7/11 – 6/13Current Trainees- Erin Shanle, Lab of Wei Xu
- 2012 Society of Toxicology’s RSESS (regulatory specialty section) travel award
- DoD predoctoral fellowship, 2/11 – 2/14
- MRC-SOT Young Investigator Award, 2009
Tammy Palenski, Lab of Nader Sheibani- NIH Predoctoral fellowship, 8/10 - 8/12
Ashley Brinkman, Lab of Wei Xu- MRC-SOT Young Investigator Award, 2011
Amy Irving, Lab of William Dove- MRC-SOT Young Investigator Award, 2010
Our Faculty In The News
Emery Bresnick, professor of cell and regenerative biology, earned a Kellett award, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation - Article
Patricia Keely, professor of cell and regenerative biology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, earned a Romnes award, which recognizes exceptional faculty members who have earned tenure within the last four years. - Article
2013-January - Allen-Hoffmann
Burn patients avoid painful surgery in trial of skin substitute
"This is the first skin substitute to ever achieve this level of efficacy, potency and consistency in severe burns," Lynn Allen-Hoffman, CEO and chief scientific officer, said in a statement. - Article
2012-Oct - Pedersen
Center gets small to study nanoparticles in environment - "A lot of studies have been conducted with whole organisms examining rather severe effects — like death — that only appear at high concentrations," says Joel Pedersen, an environmental chemistry professor in UW-Madison's Soil Science Department. "Some of the more subtle effects are only beginning to be examined." - Article
2012-March - Bradfield
Twleve outstanding faculty members at UW-Madison have been named winners of this year's Kellett Mid-Career Awards. Included was METC Director Chris Bradfield. His research team has identified the cellular receptor for the pollutant dioxin and has helped defined the molecular clock that governs circadian behavior and physiology. Article
2011-October - Allen Hoffmann
$4.6 million grant will help Stratatech start clinical trials of skin substitute
Read more: Wisconsin State Journal
2011-October - Karasov
UW-Madison to collaborate on new federal Climate Science Center
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among several institutions that will collaborate through a new federal Northeast Climate Science Center to study the effects of climate change on ecosystems, wildlife, water and other resources. Article
2011-May - Bresnick
Dr. Emery Bresnick, professor of cell and regenerative biology and member of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), has been given a coveted MERIT Award by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Article
2011-May - Xing
Two Wisconsin researchers, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison oncologist, have been named Shaw Scientists by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Article
2011-March - Lingjun
Awardees' expertise nclude psychology, art, physics, genetics The Romnes awards recognize exceptional faculty members who have earned tenure within the last four years. Winners receive unrestricted $50,000 award for researcg. Article
2011-March - Klein
Four professors honored with Hilldale Awards The top honor for faculty members who have excelled in teaching, research, and service in areas of biological sciences, physical sciences, social studies and arts and humanities. Article
2011-March - Huttenlocher
One of Eleven awarded Kellett Mid-Career Award - The Kellett award, supported by WARF recognizes outstanding mid-career faculty members who hare five to twenty years past the first promotion to a tenured posiiton. Each winner receives $60,000 flexible research award. Article
2011-January - Lingjun
Awarded H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship This unrestricted 5-year research award recognizes the University's most outstanding recently tenured faculty. Article
2010-November - Balser
Names U.S. Professor of the Year
Teri Balser, 39, an associate professor of soil science, was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to accept the honor, called the U.S. Professor of the Year Award. Article
2010-November - Allen-Hoffmann
Stratatech gets $3.5 million grant
The grant, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will be used to work toward human clinical trials of Stratatech's ExpressGraft Enhance tissue. Article
2010-October - Xu
Dr. Weu Xu is one of three scientists in the country to win the 2010 Era of Hope Scholar Award.
The award is from the U.S. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program and supports individuals who have high potential for innovation in breast cancer research early in their careers. Article
2010 July - Allen-Hoffmann
Closing In on the Formula for Artificial Skin - Researchers Experiment With Special Cell Line to Replicate the Flexible and Waterproof Qualities of the Real Thing - Article
2010 April - Huttenlocher
UW-Madison Researchers Use Light to Coax Cells to Move
Suppose you could get immune cells to move just where you wanted them to in the body - to fight infection or kill a tumor. Article
2010-April - Kreeger
CAREER Award funds study of how estrogen-mimics affect cells. See full article here.
2010-March - Ten faculty members honored with Kellert Awards
Richard Lindroth, entomology, who is internationally recognized for his research in chemical ecology at numerous levels from genes to ecosystems, particularly in relation to global environmental change. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
METC promotes research at UW-Madison and the UW System that addresses fundamental mechanisms through which toxicants produce adverse effects; provides ways to assess or predict the impact of these agents on humans and other species; develops biological and physicochemical processes that can control releases or deplete the environment of these harmful agents. Programs of the METC are supported in part by grants T32 ES07015 and T35 ES07295 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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Journal Covers
September 2012 - Yongna Xing, PhD
Identification of the Ah-Receptor Structural Determinants for Ligand Preferences
January 2011 - Erin Shanle and Wei Xu, PhD
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Targeting Estrogen Receptor Signaling: Identification and Mechanisms of Action.
Dec 2009 - Chris Bradfield, PhD
D-Amino Acid Oxidase Generates Agonists of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor and Structural Identification of Diindole Agonists of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor
September 2009 - Travis Jerde, PhD and Wade Bushman, MD, PhD
IL-1 induces IGF-dependent epithelial proliferation in prostate development and reactive hyperplasia
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