Lab News and Updates
March 2025 Our latest co-author lab publication, a collaboration with the Sadagurski Lab, has been published in Science of the Total Environment: "Integrative multi-omics analysis of metabolic dysregulation induced by occupational benzene exposure in mice". February 2025 The Kassotis Lab celebrated another great year with axe throwing at a local Detroit spot! January 2025 Dayton McGrail presented her rotation project work on PET plastic product endocrine activity at the WSU Graduate Student Research Presentation Day! December 2024 Kyle Siegel was awarded the Colgate-Palmolive Award for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods through the Society of Toxicology for a collaborative research/training project with Dr. Laurie Svoboda at University of Michigan. Samantha Heldman was awarded the Supplemental Training for Education Program (STEP) Award through the Society of Toxicology to fund her attendance at the Rutgers University Risk Assessment Bootcamp. Chris Kassotis was awarded the Lou Guillette Jr Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Read more about the award here! WSU coverage here! November 2024 Daniel Ehrheart, 1st year graduate student in Pharmacology, completed his first rotation in our laboratory. Dayton McGrail, also 1st year in Pharmacology, started her rotation in our laboratory. Our latest lab publication is titled: "Nonylphenol and cetyl alcohol polyethoxylates disrupt thyroid hormone receptor signaling to disrupt metabolic health" and was published in Endocrinology! Great work by our postdoc, Dr. Roxanne Bérubé! Another lab publication led by Dr. Roxanne Bérubé has been pre-printed and submitted for peer review. See pre-print of "Effects of organic and inorganic contaminants and their mixtures on metabolic health and gene expression in developmentally exposed zebrafish" here. October 2024 Samantha Heldman received a first place platform presentation at the Annual Meeting for the Michigan Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. Brooklynn Murray received third place poster presentation as well! More than 100 Michigan toxicologists attended the regional chapter meeting, held at NSF in Ann Arbor, Michigan! September 2024 Our latest lab publication is titled "In vitro endocrine and cardiometabolic toxicity associated with artificial turf materials" and was published in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology! This was led by our PhD student, Kyle Siegel! | See EHN summary here. Our latest collaborative lab publication, titled "Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals", was published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology! News coverage: Washington Post | CNN | Yahoo News |
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