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2023 NESOT Award Recipients

Student Oral Presentation Award

• Emily Kaye (University of Rhode Island)

Undergraduate Poster Award

• 1st place*, Salima Amiji (Northeastern University)
• 1st place*, Catherine Murphy (Northeastern University)
• 2nd place, Sophie Trafton (University of Maine Orono)

*two posters were tied for first place

Student Poster Award

• 1st place, Michael Samulevich (University of Connecticut)
• 2nd place, Madeline Tompach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• 3rd place, Juliana Agudelo Areiza (University of Rhode Island)

Travel Award

• 1st place, Madeline Tompach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• 2nd place, Marjorie Marin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• 3rd place, Emily Kaye (University of Rhode Island)
• 4th place, Christina Awada (New York University, Lagone)
• 5th place, Bright Obeng (University of Maine, Orono)

NESOT Paper of the Year Award

• Elena Chung (Rowan University)
  Chung, E., Russo, D. P., Ciallella, H. L., Wang, Y. T., Wu, M., Aleksunes, L. M., & Zhu, H. (2023). Data-Driven Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Modeling for Human Carcinogenicity by Chronic Oral Exposure. Environmental Science & technology, 57(16), 6573–6588. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00648

2022 NESOT Award Recipients

Student Oral Presentation Award

• Madeline Tompach (UMass Amherst)

Postdoctoral Poster Award

• Michelle E. Kossack (Brown University)

Undergraduate Poster Award

• 1st place, Jared Zhang (Brown University)
• 2nd place, Ben Schmandt (Bates College)

Student Poster Award

• 1st Place*, Marjorie Marin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• 1st Place*, Gabrielle Webb (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
• 3rd Place, Bright Obeng (University of Maine, Orono)

*two posters were tied for first place

Travel Award

• 1st Place, Madeline Tompach (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• 2nd Place, Bright Obeng (University of Maine Orono)
• 3rd Place, Marjorie Marin (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• 4th Place, Jared Zhang (Brown University)
• 5th Place, Olatunbosun Arowolo (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

NESOT Paper of the Year Award

• Michelle Kossack (Brown University)
  Marques ES, Agudelo J, Kaye EM, Modaresi SMS, Pfohl M, Bečanová J, Wei W, Polunas M, Goedken M, Slitt AL. The role of maternal high fat diet on following early embryonic exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in zebrafish. Chemosphere. Jan 2023. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.136723 PMID: 36241106. 

2021 NESOT Award Recipients

Student Oral Presentation Award

• Madeline Tompach (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Postdoctoral Poster Award

• Emily Marques (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Undergraduate Poster Award

• Clara Hay (US Coast Guard Academy)
• Allison Ruth (US Coast Guard Academy)

Student Poster Award

• 1st Place, Shelby Zangari (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry)
• 2nd Place, Emily Kaye (University of Rhode Island)
• 3rd Place, Juliana Agudelo (University of Rhode Island)

Travel Award

• 1st Place, Marjorie Marin (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 
• 2nd Place, Olatunbosun Arowolo (University of Massachusetts) 
• 3rd Place, Nandini Gandhi (MCPHS University) 
• 4th Place, Kristi J. Reed (MCPHS University) 
• 5th Place, Shelby Zangari (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry) 

NESOT Paper of the Year Award

• Emily Marques (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Marques ES, Agudelo J, Kaye EM, Modaresi SMS, Pfohl M, Bečanová J, Wei W, Polunas M, Goedken M, Slitt AL. The role of maternal high fat diet on mouse pup metabolic endpoints following perinatal PFAS and PFAS mixture exposure. Toxicology. 2021 Oct;462:152921. doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2021.152921. Epub 2021 Aug 28. PMID: 34464680; PMCID: PMC8554779.  

2020 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st Place, Faith Anderson (Dartmouth College)
• 2nd Place, Monika Roy, (University of Massachusetts)
• 3rd Place, Emily Marques (University of Rhode Island)

• Joshua P. Mogus (University of Massachusetts)

• Chia George Hsu (University of Rochester)

• 1st Place, Archita Venugopal Menon (Northeastern University)
• 2nd Place, Dominic Alfano (University of Saint Joseph)
• 3rd Place, Bright Obeng (University of Maine)

• Hannah Neiditz (Amherst College)

• Monika Roy (University of Massachusetts)
  Roy MA, Duche PR, Timme-Laragy AR. The sulfate metabolite of 3,3'-dichlorobiphenyl (PCB-11) impairs Cyp1a activity and increases hepatic neutral lipids in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio). Chemosphere. 2020 Dec;260:127609.

• 1st Place, Archita Menon (Northeastern University), "Iron promotes cardiac doxorubicin retention and toxicity through downregulation of the efflux transporter ABCB8"
• 2nd Place, Monika Roy (University of Massachusetts), "Does Nrf2 play a role in the developmental toxicity of the sulfate metabolite of 3,3’-dichlorobiphenyl (PCB-11)?"
• 3rd Place, Dominic Alfano (University of Saint Joseph), "Repurposing Small Drug Molecules for Tissue Regeneration: Vascular Development"

2019 NESOT Award Recipients

• Archita Venugopal Menon (Northeastern University)

• Hui Li (Brown University)

• Sharon Zeldin (Brown University)

• 1st Place, Heather Conboy (Brown University)
• 2nd Place, Rambon Shamilov (UConn)
• 3rd Place, Archit Rastogi (UMass Amherst)

Travel Award

• 1st Place, Archit Rastogi (University of Massachusetts)
• 2nd Place, Faith Anderson (Dartmouth)
• 3rd Place, Rambon Shamilov (University of Connecticut)

2018 NESOT Award Recipients

• Liming Chen (University of Connecticut)

• Hui Li (Brown University)

• 1st Place, Crystal Ng (MCPHS University)
• 2nd Place, Heather Conboy (Brown University)
• 3rd Place, Keith Morris-Schaeffer (University of Rochester)

• Anne McGoldrick (US Coast Guard Academy)

• 1st Place, Courtney J. Mercadante (Brown University)
• 2nd Place, Katherine Z. Sanidad (University of Massachusetts)
• 3rd Place, Emily Martell (University of Rhode Island)

2017 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st place, Student Poster Award, Marisa Pfohl
• 2nd place, Student Poster Award, Keith Morris
• 3rd place Student Poster Award, Fabio Carvalho
• Undergraduate Poster Award, Alexia Troise
• Student Oral Presentation Award, Katherine Sanidad
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Haixia Yang

2016 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st place, Student Poster Award, Fbio V Carvalho (University of Connecticut)
• 2nd place, Student Poster Award, Rosa Ollessongo (MCPHS University)
• 3rd place Student Poster Award, Zhengxi Wei (University of Rhode Island)
• Student Oral Presentation Award, April Rodd (Brown University)
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Priyanka Trivedi (Harvard University)

2015 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st place, Student Poster Award, April Rodd (Brown University)
• 2nd place, Student Poster Award, James Watt (Boston University)
• 3rd place Student Poster Award, Sarah Brown (University of Massachusetts)
• Student Oral Presentation Award, Elissa Wong (University of Rochester)
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Karilyn Sant (University of Massachusetts)

2013 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st place, Student Poster Award, Natasha Catlin (Brown University)
• 2nd place, Student Poster Award, Laura Armstrong (University of Rhode Island)
• 3rd place, Student Poster Award, Marguerite Vantangoli (Brown University)
• Student Oral Presentation Award, Camelia Safferini (Brown University)
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Chandrassegar Saravanan (Novartis)

2012 NESOT Award Recipients

• 1st place, Student Poster Award, Vincent Ramirez (University of Connecticut)
• 2nd place, Student Poster Award, Swetha Rudraiah (University of Connecticut)
• 3rd place, Student Poster Award, Summer Schmaling (Marine Biological Lab Woods Hole)
• Student Oral Presentation Award, Avijeet Chopra (University of Connecticut)
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Nisanne Ghonem (Yale University)

2011 NESOT Student Poster Award Recipients

• 1st place, Priscilla Encarnacao (University of Connecticut)
• 2nd place, Nicholas Heger (Brown University)
• 3rd place, Sara Pacheco (Brown University)
• Oral Presentation, Jessica Larocca (Brown University)

2010 NESOT Student Poster Award Recipients

The 2010 NESOT Student Poster Award Recipients were:

• 1st place, Edwin Mutanguha (Salve Regina University)
• 2nd place, Vijay More (University of Rhode Island)
• 3rd place, Krishna Kadaveru (University of Connecticut)
• Honorable Mention, Jessica LaRocca (Brown University)
• Oral Award: Nick Heger (Brown University)

The 2009 NESOT Student Poster Award Recipients

The 2009 NESOT Student Poster Awards recipients were granted $750, $350 and $150 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively.

• First place was awarded to Jeena Santos Ahmed of Brown University for her poster, “ Akt1-Dependent Testicular Gene Expression Profiling Following Lactational Exposure to 6-N-Propylthiouracil (PTU), a Neonatal Goitrogen.”
• Second place was awarded to Benjamin Moyer of Brown University for his poster, “Effects of in utero exposure to Mono-2-ethylhexylphthalate (MEHP) on the adult female.”
• Third place was awarded to Priscilla Encarnacao of the University of Connecticut for her poster, “Elucidating the Constituitive and Inducible Activity of the Human TNIP1 Promoter.”

The 2008 NESOT Student Poster Award Recipients

The 2008 NESOT Student Poster Awards were:

• First place was awarded to Xinyuan Yu of the University of Rhode Island for his poster, “Cadmium-induced proliferation of breast cancer cells is mediated by GPR30.”
• Second place was awarded to Natasha Caitlin of the Salve Regina University for her poster, “Pyrethroid Inhibition of the Mammalian Type Voltage Sensitive Calcium Channel(CaV3.2).”
• Third place was awarded to Gregory Marusov of the University of Connecticut for his poster, “Metallothionein expression affects the functional immune response of murine macrophages.”

NESOT Student Travel Award Winners

Each year NESOT offers a competitive Student Travel Award to registered NESOT student members to assist in defraying the costs associated with attending the Annual SOT Meeting.

The 2015 NESOT Student Travel Award Recipients were:

• 1st place, Marguerite Vantangoli, “Morphologic Changes in 3D Human Breast Microtissues following Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors” (Brown University), Kim Boekelheide, MD, PhD
• 2nd place, Rachel Speer, “The Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Particulate and Soluble Cobalt in Human Urothelial Cells” (University of Southern Maine), John Pierce Wise Sr., PhD
• 3rd place, Prajakta Shimpi, “Early Epigenetic Modulation of Nrf2 and Lipogenic Genes by PNPP Exposure of Bisphenol A Is Associated with Hepatic Steatosis in Female Mice” (University of Rhode Island), Angela Slitt, PhD

The 2012 NESOT Student Travel Award Recipients were:

• 1st, Priscilla Encarnacao (University of Connecticut)
• 2nd, Natasha Catlin (Brown University)
• 3rd, Nicholas Heger (Brown University)

The 2011 NESOT Student Travel Award Recipients were:

• 1st place–Jessica LaRocca (Brown University)
• 2nd place–Priscilla Encarnacao (University of Connecticut)
• 3rd place–Vijay More (University of Rhode Island)

The 2008 NESOT Student Travel Awards were granted $1,000, $750, and $500 for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, respectively to attend the 48th Annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Baltimore, Maryland, March 2009.

• First place was awarded to Gregory Marusov of the University of Connecticut for his poster—“Metallothionein Expression Affects the Functional Immune Response of Murine Macrophages.”
• Second place was awarded to Benjamin Moyer of Brown University for his poster—“Akt1 Mediates Epigenetic Regulation via Histone Modifcations in the Postnatal Testis.”
• Third place was awarded to Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School for her poster—“Chronic Low-Dose Arsenic in Drinking Water Alters Immune Responses to Respiratory Viral Infection In Vivo”.

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