Award Recipients

Undergraduate Travel Award

Audrey Luo, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Seizure Inhibition Mitigates Blood-Brain Barrier Impairment in a Male Rat Model of Acute Organophosphate Intoxication”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st Place—Shanna Howard, UC Santa Cruz (Advisor: Dr. Donald Smith)
“Maternal Choline Supplementation Lessens Behavioral and Molecular Dysfunction Produced by Developmental Manganese Exposure in a Rodent Model of ADHD”

2nd Place—Jeremy MacMahon, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Evaluating Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase as a Neuroprotective Therapeutic Target for Mitigating Adverse Neurological Sequelae Associated with Acute Diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) Intoxication”

3rd Place (Tie)—Nicole McNabb, MS, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Whitehead)
“Unraveling Multigenerational Impacts: Persistent and Sex-Specific Neurobehavioral Alterations in Atlantic Killifish Exposed to BDE-99”

3rd Place (Tie)—Pedro Bernardino, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Sustained Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Associated with Claudin-5 Dysregulation in a Rat Model of Acute Organophosphate Intoxication”

Honorable Mention—AJessie Badley, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“PCB 37 Causes Sex-Dependent Changes in Neuronal Cell Apoptosis, Axonal Growth and Dendritic Arborization in Primary Rat Cortical Neuron-Glia Cocultures”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Xiuzhen Liu, PhD, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Treatment with Midazolam or Allopregnanolone Singly or in Combination Did Not Mitigate Neuropathology in Mice after Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine (TETS)-Induced Status Epilepticus”

Undergraduate Travel Award

Audrey Luo, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Improved Seizure Termination Using Allopregnanolone as an Adjunct Therapy to Midazolam for Treatment of Soman-Induced Status Epilepticus in Rats”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st Place—Peter Andrew, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Natural History of Acute and Subchronic Electrophysiologic Responses to Acute Intoxication with the Organophosphate Diisopropylfluorophosphate in Male and Female Rats”

2nd Place—Jeremy MacMahon, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Acute Exposure to Diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) Perturbs the Plasminogen Activation System (PAS) Within the Plasma and Brain of Male Rats”

3rd Place (Tie)—Nicole McNabb, MS, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Whitehead)
“Dietary Exposure to the Flame Retardant, BDE-99, Induces Multigenerational Behavioral Alterations in Atlantic Killifish”

3rd Place (Tie)—Pedro Bernardino, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Blood-Brain Barrier Impairment Is Seizure-Dependent in a Male Rat Model of Acute Organophosphate Intoxication”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

1st Place(Tie)—Xiuzhen Liu, PhD, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Mecamylamine Is More Effective Than Pyridostigmine Bromide as a Prophylactic Treatment for Acute Organophosphate Intoxication in Adult Male Mice”

1st Place(Tie)—Yi-Hua (Teresa) Tsai, PhD, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Pamela Lein)
“Persistent Neuropathology Is Significantly Decreased in Adult Rats with Low Acute Seizure Behavior Following Acute Intoxication with Diisopropylfluorophosphate”

3rd Place—Lo-Wei Lin, PhD, UC Davis (Advisor: Dr. Robert Rice)
“Environmental Pro-oxidants Induce Altered Envelope Protein Profiles in Human Keratinocytes”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st Place—Lo-Wei Lin, UC Davis Dept of Environmental Toxicology (Advisor: Robert Rice)
“Woodsmoke Components Alter Cornified Envelope Proteome by Oxidative Cross-Linking”

2nd Place—Laura Magaña, UC Berkeley (Advisor: Luoping Zhang)
“High-Throughput Screening to Assess Developmental Toxicity of Formaldehyde-Exposed Zebrafish”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Dinesh Babu, PhD, University of Alberta (Advisor: Arno Siraki)
“Edaravone (Radicava®) as an antioxidant adjuvant to attenuate clozapine (Clozaril®) toxicity in vitro”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st Place—Peter Andrew (University of California, Davis)
“Pharmacological inhibition of mTOR activation by rapamycin attenuates neuroinflammation and spontaneous recurrent seizures in a rat model of acute organophosphate (OP) intoxication”

2nd Place—Jonas Carlsbeek (University of California, Davis)
“The role of nicotinic receptors in seizure activity and death triggered by acute organophosphate intoxication in a mouse model”

Honorable Mention—Iemaan Rana (University of California, Berkeley)
“Formaldehyde and brain disorders: A meta-analysis and bioinformatics approach”

Honorable Mention—Bianca Yaghoobi (University of California, Davis)
“RyR-active polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) cause neurobehavioral deficits in larval zebrafish”

Honorable Mention—Nicole McNabb (University of California, Davis)
“Multigenerational Impacts of Dietary Exposure to the Flame Retardant, BDE-99, in the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)”

Undergraduate Travel Award

Kelly Morales, UC Davis
“A Targeted Approach for Terminating Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine (Tets)-Induced Status Epilepticus and Attenuating Neurotoxicity in Zebrafish”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

Eduardo González, UC Davis
“Acute Intoxication of Juvenile Rats with Diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP) Causes Sex-Specific Seizure Behavior and Neuropathology”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

1st—Carolyn R. Klocke, UC Davis
“Sex-Specific Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Pcbs) on Hippocampal Dendritic Arborization in Wean Ling Mice”

Runner up—Hao Chen, UC San Francisco

Undergraduate Travel Award

Jeffry Shu, University of California, Berkeley
“Computational Association of Polychlorinated Biphenyl bioaccumulation in Great Lakes regions and potential risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st—Sunjay Sethi, UC Davis
“Influence of Genetic Background on Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Developmental Neurotoxicity”

Runner up—Michelle Guignet, UC Davis and Amin Sobh, UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Martin Schmuck, UC Davis
“Automated analyses of dendritic morphology in primary mouse neuronal cell cultures”

Undergraduate Travel Award

Margaret Xaio and Samantha Wong, University of California, Berkeley
“A Traditional Chinese Medicine, on Coronary Heart Disease and Analysis of Potential Polypharmacy Interactions with Western Medications”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st—Rosa Chan, UC San Francisco
“Examining the Role of Mrp3, Mrp4 and Bsep Inhibition Individually and Synergistically and Their Relationship with DILI”

Finalist—Brad Hobson, UC Davis and Rose Marie de la Rosa, UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

1st—Marianna Stamou, ETH Zurich
“Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Human Liver Cells Exposed to Cyproconazole Suggest Complex Mechanisms Underlying the Observed Lipid Accumulation”

2nd—Kimberly Keil, UC Davis
“Primary Hippocampal Neurons Derived from Female Mice Are More Sensitive to the Dendrite Promoting Activity of 2,2',3,5',6-Hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB 95) than Neurons from Male Mice”

3rd—Sangsuda Supsai, UC Davis
“Persistent Neuropathology in Rat Model of Acute OP Intoxication”

Undergraduate Travel Award

Margaret Xaio & Samantha Wong, UC Berkeley
“A Traditional Chinese Medicine, on Coronary Heart Disease and Analysis of Potential Polypharmacy Interactions with Western Medications”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

1st—Rosa Chan, UC San Francisco
“Examining the Role of Mrp3, Mrp4 and Bsep Inhibition Individually and Synergistically and Their Relationship with DILI”

2nd—Brad Hobson, UC Davis and Rose Marie de la Rosa, UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

1st—Marianna Stamou, ETH Zurich
“Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Human Liver Cells Exposed to Cyproconazole Suggest Complex Mechanisms Underlying the Observed Lipid Accumulation”

2nd—Kimberly Keil, UC Davis
“Primary Hippocampal Neurons Derived from Female Mice Are More Sensitive to the Dendrite Promoting Activity of 2,2',3,5',6-Hexachlorobiphenyl (PCB 95) than Neurons from Male Mice”

3rd—Sangsuda Supsai, UC Davis
“Persistent Neuropathology in Rat Model of Acute OP Intoxication”

Undergraduate Travel Award

Joey Chiang, UC Berkeley
Emily Hamilton, UC San Francisco
Kevin Zhang, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Achievement Award

Kyla Walter, UC Davis
“Identification of Molecular, Cellular and Behavioral Endpoints Associated with Developmental Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism in Larval Zebrafish”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Kimberly Keil, UC Davis
“DNA Methylation as a Mediator of Hexachloropiphenyl (PCB95) Induced Dendritic Arborization”

Undergraduate Student Travel Award

Hiroko Irimagawa, UC Berkeley
“Genetic Variation of Iron Metabolism in Mice”

Michele Lin, UC Berkeley
“Computational Analysis of the Combined Therapeutic Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicines and Western Therapeutics in Breast Cancer”

Graduate Student Achievement Award

Christopher Barnhart, UC Davis
“Dioxin-Like and Non-Dioxin-Like Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Modulate Basal and Activity-Dependent Dendritic Arborization in Primary Neuronal Cell Cultures”

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Hua Shen, UC Berkeleys
“Functional Genetic Screen in Human Haploid Cells to Identify Genes Involved in Susceptibility to Chemical Exposure”

High School Student Travel Award

Isabel Arnould, Oak Ridge HS, El Dorado Hills and ToxiSan
“Prevalence of Molds in Residential Indoor and Outdoor Environments in Northern California and its Implication in Health Risk Assessment”

Formal Recognition of Outstanding Service on Behalf of NorCal SOT RC

Jeff Tepper, PhD, DABT, Tepper Nonclinical Consulting

Undergraduate Travel Award

Hiroko Irimagawa, UC Berkeley

Graduate Student Achievement Award

Christopher Barnhart, UC Davis

Postdoctoral Achievement Award

Kathryn Page, PhD, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Research Associate