News
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2023
September 2023
The Tilton Lab attends the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. Congratulations to students for presentation awards!
Tori Colvin received the 1st place graduate student platform presentation award for her talk, "Dosimetry Analysis in an Airway Organotypic Culture Model".
Mackenzie Allison received the 1st place undergraduate poster presentation award for her poster, "Comparative Toxicity of Alkylated and Parent Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Primary Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells".
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September 2023
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Chemico-Biological Interactions:
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May 2023
Congratulations to Tori Colvin for receiving the 2023 Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship!
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April 2023
Congratulations to Reese Valdez for being nominated as a GEM Fellow for 2023!
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March 2023
The Tilton lab attends the Society of Toxicology's Annual Meeting in Nashville!
Congratulations to Kyle Burns for receiving the In Vitro and Alternative Methods Graduate Student Best Presentation Award for his presentation, "Evaluating toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from wildfire smoke in a 3D respiratory co-culture model".
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February 2023
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology:
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February 2023
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxics:
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January 2023
Dr. Tilton was nominated to serve as an advisor on the Air Toxics Science Advisory Committee, which reviews and provides feedback on inhalation toxicity reference values, or TRVs, proposed by Oregon Department of Environmental Quality .
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January 2023
Congratulations to Reese Valdez for being nominated as an OMSI Science Communication Fellow and receiving the Inclusivity, Diversity, Equability and Accessibility (IDEA) Scholarship!
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2022
October 2022
The Tilton Lab attends the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA. Congratulations to students for presentation awards!
Tori Colvin received a graduate student platform presentation award for her talk, "Metabolic Competency of an Airway Organotypic Culture Model".
Mackenzie Allison received the 1st place undergraduate poster presentation award for her poster, "Comparative Toxicity of Alkylated and Parent Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Primary Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells".
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October 2022
Congratulations to Brianna for publication of her paper, "Leveraging multiple data streams for prioritization of mixtures for hazard characterization" in the journal Toxics special issue, Risk Assessment on Toxicity of Chemical Mixtures.
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June 2022
Welcome to our newest lab member, Kyle Burns (Ph.D. Toxicology) and congratulations to Reese Valdez for being accepted into the Toxicology Ph.D. program!
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May 2022
Congratulations to Mackenzie for receiving the EMT Introduction to Toxicology Summer Fellowship!
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April 2022
Congratulations to Brianna and Lindsay for publication of their paper, "A Comparative Multi-System Approach to Characterizing Bioactivity of Commonly Occurring Chemicals" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
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April 2022
The Tilton Lab received a Vanguard Award for $22,500 from the Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research to support their pilot project proposal, “Development of a 3D respiratory co-culture model for assessing toxicity to chemicals from wildfire smoke”.
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March 2022
Dr. Tilton was nominated to serve as an advisor on the Expert Panel for Cosmetic Ingredient Safety, which is an independent panel of experts that assesses safety of individual ingredients used in cosmetic and personal care products.
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March 2022
The Tilton lab attends the Society of Toxicology's Annual Meeting in San Diego!
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February 2022
Congratulations to Brianna Rivera for receiving the Hispanic Organization of Toxicologists Graduate Student Travel award to attend the SOT Annual Meeting for her presentation titled, “Defining Simple PAH Mixtures for Hazard Identification” !
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February 2022
Samantha Amador received the E.R. Jackman Undergraduate Internship Award for Spring 2021. Congratulations!
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February 2022
Congratulations to Reese Valdez for receiving a fellowship through the NIEHS Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research as part of the OSU/PNNL Superfund Center!
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January 2022
Welcome to our new lab members, Francesca Germano (M.S., Toxicology) and Mackenzie Allison (B.S., BioHealth and STEM Leaders Program)!
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January 2022
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Environment International:
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2021
November 2021
Samantha Amador received the E.R. Jackman Undergraduate Internship Award for Fall 2021. Congratulations!
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September 2021
Dr. Tilton is interviewed for an Environmental Health Perspectives news article on cumulative risk assessment frameworks for chemical mixtures.
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July 2021
Congratulations to Tori Colvin for receiving the 2021 KC Donnelly Externship Award to work with Dr. Bevin Engelward at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. Great job!
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June 2021
Congratulations to Kelley Bastin for graduating with a BS in Microbiology!! We'll miss you in the lab and wish you the best with your future endeavors!
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June 2021
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang for her recently accepted manuscript in Chemical Research in Toxicology!
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May 2021
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Drug Metabolism and Disposition.
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April 2021
Brianna Rivera was invited to speak at the NW Toxic Communities Coalition 2021 Summit on Chemical Mixtures and Synergistic Effects. Congratulations!
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April 2021
Congratulations to Brianna Rivera for receiving the 2021 Dr. Eric A. Andreasen Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship. Great job!
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March 2021
Congratulations to Brianna Rivera for receiving the J. Gehring Risk Assessment Award from the SOT Risk Assessment Specialty Section and the Best Abstract Award from the SOT Mixtures Specialty Section for her presentation titled, "A Novel Framework to Form Sufficiently Similar Mixtures from Environmental Exposure Data"!
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2020
December 2020
Our recent publication in Toxicology In Vitro was highlighted by NIEHS Environmental Factor as an extramural paper of the month, "Predicting cancer-causing potential of PAH chemicals".
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October 2020
Dr. Tilton was interviewed on local news about recent manuscript in Toxicology In Vitro and relevance to studying impacts of forest fires on human health.
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October 2020
Tilton Lab manuscript in Toxicology In Vitro highlighted in news articles at OSU and beyond, "Predicting the cancer-causing potential of chemicals released from wildfires, fossil fuel burning", and "OSU researchers devise method to predict cancer impacts of fires, fossil fuels".
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October 2020
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang for her recently accepted manuscript in Toxicology In Vitro!
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June 2020
Congratulations to our graduates this year, Yvonne Chang (PhD), Celine Huynh (BS) and Andrew Frank (BS)!! We wish you the best with your future endeavors!
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June 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Yvonne Chang for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, "Toxicogenomic biomarkers associated with PAH carcinogenic potential in a 3D in vitro bronchial epithelial model". Great job!
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June 2020
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for successfully passing her Honor's Thesis! Celine also received Honorable Mention for the OSU Honor's College Outstanding Thesis Award. Great job!
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May 2020
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang for receiving Best Abstract Award from the SOT Mixtures Specialty Section for her presentation titled, "Linking Co-regulated Gene Modules with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Related Cancer Risk (RPF) in the 3D Human Bronchial Epithelium"!
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May 2020
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicological Sciences
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April 2020
Dr. Tilton was awarded $1.5 million NIH grant as part of the OSU/PNNL Superfund Program to support the study
"Linking PAH Exposure to Health Outcomes Using Human Primary In Vitro Respiratory Model"
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April 2020
Reese Valdez received the Continuing Researchers Support Award from the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences to support her research 2020-2021. Congratulations!!
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March 2020
Brianna Rivera was invited to speak at the Society of Toxicology 2020 Annual Meeting as part of the Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Toxicology. Congratulations!
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February 2020
Dr. Tilton was awarded a grant from the Agricultural Research Foundation to support the study of "A Novel in Vitro Model to Assess Phytochemical Intervention in Respiratory Disease".
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January 2020
Congratulations to Reese Valdez for receiving the E.R. Jackman Undergraduate Internship Award for Spring 2020!
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2019
October 2019
Congratulations to Reese Valdez for receiving the award for best poster presentation for the Beginning Researchers Program at the 5th Annual CAS Student Showcase & Career Fair for her presentation, "Biomarkers of PAH toxicity and inflammation in normal and asthmatic human bronchial epithelial cells". Great job!
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October 2019
The Tilton Lab attends the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Annual Meeting in Boise, ID. Congratulations to students for presentation awards!
Yvonne Chang received the 1st place graduate student platform presentation award for her talk, "Beyond pathway analysis: leveraging a gene co-expression analysis to link gene sets with PAH-related cancer risk and regulatory values in 3D human bronchial epithelium".
Kelley Bastin received the 1st place undergraduate poster presentation award for her poster, "Metabolic response to benzo[a]pyrene toxicity in normal human bronchial epithelial cells".
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August 2019
Brianna Rivera was invited to speak at the upcoming Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, FL, for her presentation, "Personal Silicone Samplers to Evaluate Inhalation Exposure". Congratulations!
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June 2019
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang for her recently accepted manuscript in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology!.
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June 2019
Dr. Tilton was highlighted by the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences for #WomanWednesday!
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May 2019
Welcome new Tilton Lab members Andrew Frank and Reese Valdez! Andrew received the EMT Introduction to Toxicology Summer Fellowship and Teresa received the Beginning Researchers Support Award from the OSU College of Agriculture. Congratulations!
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May 2019
Tilton Lab manuscript accepted in BMC Bioinformatics.
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May 2019
Congratulations to Kelley Bastin for receiving the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Summer Fellowship from the OSU College of Science.
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May 2019
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for receiving the Biomedical Informatics Summer Fellowship from Oregon Health Sciences University!
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April 2019
Yvonne Chang is a visiting scientist with Dr. Julia Rager this month at UNC's Institute for Environmental Health Sciences as part of her Colgate-Palmolive award from SOT.
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April 2019
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang for receiving a summer graduate fellowship from Reynolds American!
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April 2019
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for receiving the National MANRRS VIP Scholarship and 2nd Place Presentation Award for her poster, "Impact of PAHs on Barrier Function Toxicity in 3D Lung Model from Normal and Asthmatic Donors", at the National MANRRS Conference!
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March 2019
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang and Michael Andres-Mans for their awards at the Society of Toxicology 2019 Annual Meeting!
Yvonne received the Colgate-Palmolive Award for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods and Honorable Mention for Best Trainee Abstract from the Biological Modeling Specialty Section for her presentation, "Classifying Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Carcinogenic Potential Using Human Systems Biology Data in a Pathway-Based Predictive Model"
Michael received a full travel award and Best Undergraduate Presentation Award from the Molecular Biology Specialty Section for his presentation, "Functional Consequences of microRNA Regulation by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in 3D Human Lung Epithelial Cells".
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February 2019
Dr. Tilton was awarded $40,000 from the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) to study "Combined effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors in an in vitro respiratory model"
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February 2019
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology!
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February 2019
Yvonne Chang was highlighted in the Trainee Spotlight of the Superfund Research Program's February newsletter. Congratulations!
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January 2019
Welcome new Tilton Lab member Kelley Bastin! Kelley received the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and the Arts (URSA) Engage Award from OSU for her research. Congratulations!
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January 2019
Yvonne Chang was invited to give a platform presentation at the Environmental Public Health in the 21st Century Research Symposium on her project, "Testing a Pathway-Based Predictive Model to Classify Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Carcinogenic Potential". Congratulations!
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2018
December 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Tilton for her appoinment to the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors for 2019-2022!
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December 2018
Congratulations to Michael-Andres Mans for successfully defending his undergraduate thesis project, "Functional Consequences of miRNA Regulation by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in 3D Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells".
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November 2018
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Environmental Health Perspectives!
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October 2018
Congratulations to Celine Huynh and Michael-Andres Mans for winning Outstanding Undergraduate Student Presentations awards at the 2019 Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Meeting in Bothell, WA!
Michael-Andres Mans. "Functional Consequences of microRNA Regulation by PAHs in 3D Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells"
Celine Huynh, "Impact of PAHs on Barrier Function Toxicity in 3D Lung Model from Normal and Asthmatic Donors".
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September 2018
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, "Improving Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk for Mixtures with Systems Biology Data".
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August 2018
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for receiving the E.R. Jackman Undergraduate Internship Award for Fall 2018!
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August 2018
Congratulations to George Luker for successfully defending his undergraduate thesis project, "Toxicity and Mutagenicity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Soils using Mammalian In Vitro Assay"!
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August 2018
Welcome new Tilton Lab member Brianna Rivera! Brianna is a trainee on the NIEHS-funded Toxicology Training Grant.
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June 2018
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for receiving the
EMT Introduction to Toxicology Summer Fellowship!
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May 2018
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Food and Chemical Toxicology!
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April 2018
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the Center for Genome Research and Biotechnology Spring Conference, "A 3D in vitro respiratory model for predicting chemical toxicity".
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March 2018
Congratulations to Makeba Walcott and Yvonne Chang for receiving awards from the 2018 Annual Society of Toxicology Meeting in San Antonio, TX!
Yvonne Chang received the Best Mixtures Abstract Award and Sheldon D. Murphy Mechanisms Specialty Section Student Travel Award.
Makeba Walcott received the Pfizer Undergraduate Travel Award.
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March 2018
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the 2018 Annual Society of Toxicology Conference in San Antonio, TX, "Cancer Risk Assessment of PAH Mixtures: Current and Future Directions".
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January 2018
Congratulations to Celine Huynh for receiving the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and the Arts (URSA) Engage Award and DeLoach Work Scholarship from the OSU Honor's College!
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2017
December 2017
Congratulations to Sawyer Hicks for successfully defending his undergraduate thesis project, "16S analysis of the murine lung microbiome in response to diet-induced obesity and cigarette smoke"!
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November 2017
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Cancer Informatics!
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October 2017
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang and Michael-Andres Mans for receiving Outstanding Student Presentation Awards at the 2017 Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Meeting in Bothell, WA!
Yvonne Chang, "PAH Biosignatures in Human 3D Bronchial Epithelium Linked to Cancer Outcome"
Michael-Andres Mans, "Role of miRNA in PAH-Treated 3D Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells"
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September 2017
Congratulations to Michael-Andres Mans for receiving the Continuing Researcher Award from the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences!
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September 2017
Congratulations to Beth Siddens for receiving the
Agricultural Research Foundation Faculty Research Assistant Award!
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August 2017
Tilton Lab manuscript accepted in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety:
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August 2017
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in European Journal of Immunology!
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June 2017
Congratulations to George Luker for receiving the
E.R. Jackman Undergraduate Internship Award from the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences!
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May 2017
Congratulations and welcome to Makeba Walcott who received in EMT/SOT Summer Internship for her project, "MyomiR Regulation of Pulmonary Response to Obesity and Smoking", in our lab!
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March 2017
Congratulations to Yvonne Chang and Lauren Heine for receiving awards at the 2017 Annual Society of Toxicology Meeting in Baltimore, MD!
Yvonne Chang received the 1st Place Overall Best Mixtures Abstract Award, Robert J. Rubin Risk Assessment Travel Award and 3rd Place Graduate Student Carcinogenesis Research Award for her presentation, "PAHs differentially regulate transcription in human 3D bronchial epithelium"
Lauren Heine received the Pfizer Undergradaute Travel Award for her presentation, "Impact of PAHs on barrier function toxicity in 3D lung model".
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February 2017
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the Society of Toxicology Risk Assessment Specialty Section Seminar Series, "How Can Mechanistic Data from Systems Approaches Improve our Understanding of Carcinogenic Risk for Mixtures?"
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2016
November 2016
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Radiation Research!
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September 2016
Congratulations to Michael-Andres Mans and Kristina Halvorson for receiving Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation Awards at the 2016 Annual PANWAT Meeting in Corvallis, OR!
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September 29-30th, 2016.
Dr. Tilton is organizing the Annual Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists (PANWAT) meeting in Corvallis, OR.
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September 2016
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in BMC Systems Biology!
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September 9th, 2016.
Dr. Tilton is an invited speaker for the OSU Center for Genome Research and Biotechnology Fall Conference, "Role of miRNAs in pulmonary inflammation associated with diet and smoking".
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June 2016:
Congratulations and welcome to Lauren Heine who received in EMT/SOT Summer Internship for her project, "Impact of PAHs on lung epithelial barrier function in 3D cell model" in our lab!
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June 15th, 2016:
Congratulations to new OSU graduates Brielle and Kristina!
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May 3rd, 2016:
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine Guest Speaker Series.
"In vitro assessment of carcinogenic risk for PAHs using a 3D lung epithelial model"
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March 2nd, 2016:
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at California State University's 11th Annual Symposium on Health Effects of Chemical Mixtures in Environmental and Occupational Health.
"Toxicology of Mixtures - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons"
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February 2016
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Cell Host & Microbe!
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January 2016:
Kristina Halvorson wins 2nd place award at EMT Research Day for her presentation titled, 'Role of miRNAs regulating inflammation associated with smoking and diet-induce obesity'. Congratulations!
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2015
September 2015
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology!
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September 1-2nd, 2015:
Drs. Tilton and Waters (PNNL) organize a 2-day Bioinformatics and Statistics Workshop for the Superfund Research Program, open to students and staff.
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July 2015
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicological Sciences!
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July 1st, 2015:
Recent manuscript in Toxicological Sciences highlighted on journal cover and in NIEHS Environmental Factor as an extramural paper of the month, "Faster assessment of carcinogenic potential for PAH mixtures"
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May 2015
Check out our recently accepted paper with our collaborators in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, which was featured on the cover!
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May 13th, 2015:
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the OSU Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing Seminar Series.
"An integrative systems toxicology approach to understanding environmental risk factors in lung disease"
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May 11th, 2015:
Tilton Lab manuscript in Toxicological Sciences highlighted in news articles at OSU and beyond, "OSU scientists develop improved way to assess cancer risk of pollutants", New method developed to assess cancer risk of pollutants.
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April 2015:
Recent manuscript in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology highlighted on journal cover and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Low Dose Radiation Impacts Skin Sensitivity".
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April 2015
Tilton Lab manuscript accepted in Toxicological Sciences!
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March 3-5th, 2015:
Dr. Tilton is invited to lead a session at the OMICs Outreach Workshop, An Introduction to Systems Biology for Experimental Biologists, in Madison, WI.
"miRNA target prediction and data integration"
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January 9th, 2015:
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at EMT Research Day in Corvallis, OR.
"Integrative approaches for predicting PAH toxicity in environmental mixtures"
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2014
September 19th, 2014:
Dr. Tilton is invited to speak at the Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists Annual Conference on Predictive Toxicology in Bothell, WA.
"Pathway-based prediction of tumor outcome for environmental PAH mixtures"
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September 2021
Dr. Tilton is interviewed for an Environmental Health Perspectives news article on cumulative risk assessment frameworks for chemical mixtures.