On Wednesday, August 22, 2007, Doctoral candidate Greg Howard will present a talk titled "Generalized concentration addition model predicts interactions of TCDD with partial agonist AhR ligands" at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Boston.  Greg's presentation will be part of a symposium organized by the Brown University SBRP titled "Environmental Contaminants at Low-levels and in Complex Mixtures."

On Wednesday July 25, 2007, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is sponsoring a day-long conference titled "Biomonitoring: The Challenges of Human Exposure Assessment." Topics to be discussed at this conference include the growing laboratory capabilities for biomonitoring, the challenges in implementing biomonitoring programs at the state and local levels, and the legal issues surrounding biomonitoring.

Doctoral student Jessica Nelson will be displaying a poster and distributing the Consensus Statement from the Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring at this event.

Doctoral student Greg Howard recently won the best poster award at the 2007 Society of Epidemiologic Research Conference in Boston, MA. In their poster titled "Contrasting Theories of Additivity, Synergy, and Antagonism in Epidemiology and Toxicology" Greg and Tom Webster (Project 2) investigated two simple models for continuous exposures and outcomes in order to contrast the epidemiologic and toxicologic approaches.

Tom Webster (BU SBRP Project 2) recently published a paper titled "Bias magnification in ecologic studies: a methodological investigation" in the journal Environmental Health. In this paper Dr. Webster examines bias in ecological studies and develops useful tools for analyzing ecological bias.

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