UMDNJ-Rutgers University
CounterACT Research
Center of Excellence

Designing therapies to counteract chemical terrorism.

Upcoming Events:

5/06/08, 12:00 pm; Dr. Hays Rye, Princeton University,”Molecular chaperones in protein folding and endocytosis”, CABM 010, Busch campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

5/7/08; 1:00 pm. Frank J. Gonzalez, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, “Mechanism of Action of Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens”, Elizabeth C. Miller and James A. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series on Cancer, Rutgers Pharmacy Building, room 111, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

5/14/08 - James Manley Columbia University Mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene control Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:00 CABM 010

5/16/08-5/21/08 - American Thoracic Society International Meeting - Toronto, Canada Look for our research to be presented at this annual meeting.

5/28/08; 11:00 am, Dr. David Allis, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University;  “Beyond the Double Helix: Writing and Reading the "Histone Code"; Main auditorium; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

5/28/08; 3:00 pm, Dr. Stephen Friend, Executive Vice President, Oncology, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc, “Innovations in New Drug Development Through Translational Research; Main auditorium; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

6/5/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

Spring 2008 (tentative) - Year 2 CounterACT Symposium at UMDNJ/Rutgers

8/21/08 - 8/22/08; Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology; DIMACS Center, CoRE building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

10/29-10/31: 9th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials Science and Regenerative Medicine. Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ.

Topics Include:
Blast, Burn and Crush Injuries
Biomaterials Design and Fabrication
Cell-Material Interactions Relevant to Tissue Engineering
Clinical Approaches to the Reconstruction of Bone, Tendon, Cartilage
Predictive Modeling of Cell-Material Interactions
Nerve, Muscle, Soft Tissue Regeneration and Vascularization
Skin Regeneration and Wound Healing
Protein Adsorption and Cell-Material Interactions
Allograft Cell and Tissue Transplantation
Extra-Cellular Matrices

 

Previous Events:

5/01/08; 1:00 pm; Elizabeth Schonauer, DNA Genotek, ‘Overview of DNA and RNA collection methods, CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

5/1-5/2 - DIMACS Annual Symposium on Systems Toxicology. DIMACS Center, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ.

Wednesday, April 30

09:30 - 10:30 AM	Registration and Setup
10:30 - 10:40 AM	Welcome and introduction Dr. William J. Welsh (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
10:40 - 10:50 AM	Introductory remarks and USEPA perspective Ms. Deborah Segal (USEPA-ORD)
10:50 - 11:00 AM	Introductory remarks and EOHSI perspective Dr. Kenneth Reuhl (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
11:00 - 11:45 AM	A multiscale framework for environmental systems toxicology Dr. Panos G. Georgopoulos (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
11:45 - 12:30 PM	The Virtual Liver Project: Modeling tissue response to chemicals through multiscale simulation Dr. Imran Shah (USEPA-NCCT)
12:30 - 01:30 PM	Lunch
01:30 - 02:15 PM	Genetic and environmental pathways to complex diseases Dr. Reuben Thomas (NIH-NIEHS)
02:15 - 03:00 PM	Dissecting flux changes in mammalian cells: Application to understanding viral infection Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz (Princeton University)
03:00 - 03:45 PM	The Virtual Embryo Project (v-EmbryoTM) Dr. Thomas Knudsen (USEPA-NCCT)
03:45 - 04:00 PM	Coffee Break
04:00 - 04:45 PM	Computational modeling of liver function Dr. Charles Roth (Rutgers University)
04:45 - 05:30 PM	Computational toxicology: New methods and models at the molecular level Dr. Sean Ekins (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
05:30 - 06:30 PM	Poster Session Highlight “Gene expression studies of mouse skin response to sulfur mustard exposure for evaluating efficacy of inhibitors” Dr. Donald R. Gerecke, UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence
06:30 - 07:30 PM	Dinner
07:30 - 08:15 PM	Keynote Address: There is no place like "-ome" Dr. Daniel Casciano (USFDA-NCTR, Retired)

Thursday, May 1

08:30 - 09:00 AM	Registration
09:00 - 09:45 AM	The EPA ToxCast Program Dr. Richard Judson (USEPA-NCCT)
09:45 - 10:15 AM	Toxicogenomics: Technology, application and challenges Dr. Weida Tong (USFDA-NCTR)
10:15 - 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM	Computational toxicology from a cheminformatics perspective Dr. William J. Welsh (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
11:15 - 12:00 PM	Discovery in proteomics: De novo and hybrid methods via tandem mass spectrometry Dr. Christodoulos A. Floudas (Princeton University)
12:00 - 01:30 PM	Lunch and Poster Session
01:30 - 02:15 PM	From data to models: Systems toxicology linkages to toxicoinformatics Dr. Ioannis Androulakis (Rutgers University)
02:15 - 03:15 PM	Panel Discussion
3:15-3:30 PM	Concluding remarks and adjournment

4/29/2008; 12:00 pm, Disha Patel, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, ‘Structure-activity relationships by NMR: an approach to fragment based drug design’; room 323A, Pharmacy building, Busch campus.

4/21/08; 12:00 pm; San Ming Wang, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, "Studying Human Genome Structure at Kilobase Resolution"

Normal genome variation and pathogenic genome alteration frequently affect small regions in the genome. We have developed the DGS (Ditag Genome Scanning) platform for kilobase-resolution analysis of genome structure. Analyzing five normal and cancer genomes using this platform reveals new patterns of normal genome variation and cancer genome mutation.

4/16/08; 12:00 pm; Sherif Ibrahim, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, ‘The Warburg effect and glycolysis inhibition’, Pharmacy, room 007, Busch campus.

4/14-4/16 - CounterACT Annual progress meeting, Embassy Suites, 900 10th St. NW, Washington D.C..

4/14/08; 12:00 pm; Dr. Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University, “Protein complexes that shape and safe-guard human telomeres”; Waksman Institute, Busch campus, Rutgers University.

4/11/08; 1:30 pm; Sung Hack Lee, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rutgers University, “Characterizing the mechanism of differential pharmacokinetic disposition of two structurally similar nucleosides”; room 007, School of Pharmacy Building.

4/11/08; 12:00 pm, Michael B. Weinstein, Ph.D., Ohio State University, "Functions of TGF-beta signaling in development and diseases", Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

4/9/08, 3 pm, Nobel Laureate Dr. Matthew Meselson; Harvard University, "Mechanisms of cell replication", UMDNJ-RWJMS, main auditorium, Piscataway, NJ

4/9/08; 12:00 pm, Zedong Dong, Ph.D., Hoffman-La Roche, “Applications of physico-chemical characterization in drug development”, room 007, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway.

4/08/08; David J. Moore, Ph.D., International Specialty Products, Wayne, NJ, “Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Imaging of the Skin Barrier”, EOHSI Building, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ.

4/08/08, 4:00 pm; CounterACT is participating in the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Symposium

4/3/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

4/02/08; 12:00 pm; Yong-Hae Han, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb, “Transporter Phenotyping in Drug Discovery”, room 007, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/27/08; 3:00 pm; Debra Laskin, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, ‘The lung as a target for sulfur mustard toxicity’, EOHSI, 402, Busch campus.

3/26/08, 3 pm; Dr. David L. Rimm, Yale University School of Medicine, "Biomarker discovery by quantitative and multiplexed analysis of tissue microarrays", CINJ auditorium

3/25/08; 1:30 pm; Glenn Paulson, Ph.D., UMDNJ School of Public Health, Chemical control: near miss disasters; EOHSI A&, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

3/21/08; 12:00 pm, William Marzluff, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Novel mechanisms in histone mRNA metabolism; Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway.

3/16/08 - 3/20/08 - Society of Toxicology National Meeting in Seattle, WA. Many individuals from our Center will be presenting research at this symposium.

3/16/08-3/19/08 - International Conference on Emerging and Infectious Diseases. Atlanta, GA. [link]

3/14/08 - Symposium: “Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering” 2:30-4:00 pm. Room 120 Busch Campus Center.

Sheila Macneil, Ph.D., Professor of Tissue Engineering, University of Sheffield in the UK
Research interests: Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin

Ewa Herbst, Ph.D., President and CEO, Herbst Research, Edgewater, NJ
Research interests: Use of electric fields to stimulate tissue healing and regeneration

Michael Jaffe, Ph.D., Research Professor Biomedical Engineering, NJIT
Research interests: Development of novel biomaterials for wound healing

Ramsey Foty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Cell-cell cohesion and cell-substratum adhesion in tissue-biomaterial interaction

Charles Gatt, M.D., Chair of Orthopaedics, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Clinical perspectives on tissue engineering

Debabrata Banerjee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Stem cells in wound healing and regeneration

3/12/08; 12 pm; Dr. Elaine Ostrander, NIH, “Genetic Mapping of Complex Traits” CABM 010, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/12/08; 12:00 pm; Anjaneya Chimalakonda, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models to predict drug efficacy following short term therapy”, room 007, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Piscataway, NJ

3/10/08; 12 pm; Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, “Drug Discovery Challenges”, Auditorium, Rutgers Life Sciences Bldg, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/5/08; 5:00 pm, Louis J. Lombardo, Ph.D., Director, Oncology Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawerenceville, NJ, “Preclinical studies with a potent multi-targeted kinase inhibitor”, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, room 007, Busch campus

3/3/08; 12 pm; Jianjie Ma, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Calcium transients in cell growth regulation, V10 UMDNJ, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/25/08; 12 pm; Thomas Scanlin, M.D., UMDNJ-RWJMS, ‘Therapeutic Implication of Altered Glycosylation’; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, Busch campus, room V10.

2/26/08 - Richard Carthew Northwestern University Mechanism and Biology of Small Regulatory RNAs Tuesday, February 26, 2008 16:00 Waksman Auditorium

2/24/08-2/27/08 - 6th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD. [link]

2/21/08; 12:00 pm; Joan Durbin M.D., Ph.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine, Rodent models of human airway disease, CABM 010, Piscataway, NJ

2/20/08; 4 pm; David Williams, M.D. Children's Hospital Boston, Rac and Rho H as mediators of cell growth regulation; CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

2/18/08; 12 noon, Carlo Croce, MD, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, "Role of microRNAs in cell growth regulation", Auditorium A, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

2/18/2008; 12:00 pm,  William J. Welsh, Ph.D., Dept. Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; “Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery”, second floor conference room, Laboratory for Cancer Research, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/15/08; 12:00 pm; Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, Regulation of stem cell self-renewal by the ubiquitin ligase Fbw7; Nelson B228, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

2/11/08 - Alexandra C. Newton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UCSD. "Signal Termination: PHLiPPing the Switch in Akt and Protein Kinase C Signaling", 12pm, Room V-10, RWJMS, New Brunswick, NJ.

2/7/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

2/7/08 - Marcia Slater, Ph.D., Applied Biosystems; “Real-Time PCR without RNA purification from Cells”, CINJ Main Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

2/6/08, 4 PM; Peter P. Tolias, Ph.D., New Jersey Medical School, Translational Research at the Institute of Genomic Medicine, CINJ, Main Auditorium

2/06/2008; Dr. David Botstein, Princeton University, “Transcriptional and physiological responses to differences in growth rate”; 12:00 CABM 010

1/29/08, 11:00 a.m., Dr. Tatiana Bronich, University of Nebraska Medical Center; "Polymer micelles as nanocarriers for drugs and imaging age" Chemistry Bldg seminar room, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/29/08 - Dr. Gregory Hannon Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 CABM 010

1/28/08 - Dr. Paul McNeil, Medical College of Georgie, "Cell Membrane Repair", 12pm, RWJMS Piscataway, Room V10.

1/22/08; Max Garzon, Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Memphis, “Synthetic Biology for Bioinformatics” 3:30 pm, Room 402, EOHSI,  RWJ Medical School, Busch Campus, Piscataway, N.J.

1/18/08 - Dr. Yufang Shi, "Regulation of Immune Responses by AICD and Stem Cells"; CABM, Room 010, 9:30am

1/14/2008; Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, ‘Meeting the drug discovery challenge’;12:00 Genetics Inst. Auditorium

1/11/08; 12:00 pm, Dr. Guy Werlen, Rutgers University, “Role of ERK signaling in T lymphocyte development”, Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/10/08 - External Advisory Committee Board meeting, EOHSI Conference Room C, 8:30am to 5 pm. Drs. Carl Baker and David Jett will be attending.

1/9/08 - Dr. David Jett, National Institute of Health - NINDS, "Counterterrorism Research at the National institutes of Health"; 4pm, EOHSI conference room C.

1/8/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

1/7/2008; 2:00 PM; Noon; Cancer Center Building - G1196, "Identification of steps in cell cycle progression of normal and cancer cells controlled by Rho GTPases”, Alan Hall, Ph.D., Chair, Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1/3/08 - Dr. Peter James O'Dwyer, M.D., Professor of Medicine, "Translational studies on the targeting of anti-angiogenesis drugs". Thursday, January 3, 2008, 12pm, CABM 010.

12/19/07 - Mary-Ann Bjornsit, Ph.D. St. Jude's Children Research Hospital TOR Signaling in S-phase Wednesday, December 19, 2007 16:00 CINJ Auditorium

12/18/07, Yury S. Polikanov, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Mechanims of Communication over a Distance on DNA and Chromatin, 12:00 NOON, RWJMS, room V-10, Piscataway

12/17/07;  Yong Wan, Ph.D.  Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine "Control of the cell cycle"; 2:00 pm, RWJMS-Room V10, Piscataway, NJ

11/30/07 - Debra L. Laskin, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Rutgers University, Role of Inflammatory Mediators in Sulfur Mustard-induced Lung Injury, 2:00 pm, EOHSI building, conference room C, Piscataway

11/28/07 - Thermodynamics of Force-Induced DNA-ligand Interactions" - Mark C. Williams, Northeastern University. 1:30 pm at 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

11/20/07 - "Coordinating DNA repair with cell cycle progression" -Matthew O'Connell, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine. 12pm at 10 CABM, RWJMS.

11/15/07; Dr. Thomas Kensler, Johns Hopkins University “Mechanisms of cellular responses to oxidative stress”, 2:00 P.M. seminar; EOHSI Building room C, Busch campus of Rutgers University,

11/15/07; Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, Caltech, ‘Synthesis of large and small molecules using olefin metathesis catalysts’, 4 pm Wright Laboratory, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

11/14/07 - Dr. Jeffrey D. Laskin, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; 2:00 P.M. plenary talk for the Dermal Clinical Evaluation Society; “Developing skin active agents against sulfur mustard:  The Rutgers/UMDNJ CounterACT Research Center of Excellence”; Teaneck Marriott, Teaneck, NJ

11/6/07 - Robert Ross, Department of Homeland Security, "Managing Homeland Security Risk: A New Approach", 5-6pm, DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg 431, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ.

11/6/07 - Rashmi Thakur - "Design of Polymeric drug delivery system providing targeted drug release profiles of hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds." 10am-12pm, 202, Laboratory for Cancer Research.

11/5/07-11/7/07 - 2007 Biodefense Research Conference. Bridging the gap: Biodefense and Beyond. Philadelphia, PA. [link]

10/24/07 "Method Development and Validation Strategies for Quantitative LC/MS/MS" - Wei Zhou, Ph.D., Lab Head, Drug Metabolism & Bioanalytics, Novarti. Room 007, Pharmacy Building, 12-1:30pm.

10/23/07 - "Models of Gene Regulation" - Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University. 12 pm in 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

10/17/07 - "The Future of Genomic Medicine: From Dr. Freud to Dr. McCoy" - Edward Russel Dougherty, Texas A&M University. 1:30pm at 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

10/16/07 - "Hydrophobic Hydration at the Nanoscale" - Peter Rossky, University of Texas at Austin. 11 am, Wright-Reiman Auditorium (Busch Campus).

10/17/7 - The UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Center Research Center of Excellence is participating in a Preparedness Symposium on issues in Terrorism organized by the New Jersey Preparedness Training Consortium to be held at the Rutgers University School of Pharmacy in Piscataway, NJ, October 17, 2007 [registration]

When Terrorism Strikes - How a Pharmacist can Save the World"

8:15 – 8:30                    Welcome and Introduction (Dr. Benjamin Chavez, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

8:30 – 9:30                    New Developments in Bioterrorism Agents (Dr. Clifton Lacy, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ)

9:30 -10:30                    Chemical Agents in Terrorism (Dr. Kevin Rynn, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

10:30-10:45                   Break

10:45-11:35                   Psychology of Bioterrorism (Dr. Sajjad Zaidi, Monmouth Medical Center, NJ)

11:35-12:45                   lunch

12:45-1:35                     Command and Control (Dr. Joseph Barone, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

1:35-2:25                       Pharmacist’s Role and Response (Mr. Richard Palombo, Medco Health Solutions, NJ)

2:25-2:40                       Break

2:40-3:30                       Application of Legal Issues During a Bioterrorism Event (Dr. Angelo Cifaldi, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

3:30-3:45                       Questions and Evaluation

10/8/07-10/10/07 - Defense Against the Effects of Chemical Hazards: Toxicology, Diagnosis, and Medical Countermeasures, Edinburgh, Scotland. Sponsored by the Research and Technology Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. [link]

10/10/07 - "The Role of Sequence-specific DNA Structure in Gene Regulation" - Remo Rohs, Columbia University. 1:30pm, 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

8/31/07 - 9am-1pm - "Rehearsals for CounterACT External Advisory Committee", Piscataway, NJ

8/28-8/30 - "CounterACT Research Center Symposium on Exposures to Highly Toxic Chemicals", Piscataway, NJ (Drs. Joshua Gray and Diane E. Heck, program coordinators)

8/27/07 - 12pm-4pm; Preparation and Evaluations for the Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 CounterACT Course Programs sponsored by the CounterACT Research and Training Core (Drs. Joshua P. Gray and Diane E. Heck, Core Directors), Piscataway, NJ

8/16/07 - Annual UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Center retreat. 216 Lillie Building, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 12pm-4pm.

7/29/2007-8/4/2007 - Data Analysis in Law Enforcement and Homeland Security. This Summer Reconnect Conference sponsored by DyDAn (The Homeland Security Center for Dynamic Data Analysis). [link]

6/25-6/27 - Statistical Analysis of Analytical Data. Summer short-course, New Brunswick, NJ. [link]

6/26-6/28 - Experimental Design for Productivity & Quality in R&D. Summer short-course, New Brunswick, NJ. [link]

6/20/07 - Symposium on Modeling for Exposures to Highly Toxic Chemicals. Sponsors: American Chemistry Council and EOHSI Chemical Chemodynamics Laboratory. Rutgers University, EOHSI building, 9am-5pm, Conference Room C, Piscataway, NJ.

Topics and Speakers: ' Inhalation Exposure Modeling’ Panos Georgopoulos, UMDNJ; ‘Exposure Research and Modeling at the EPA’, John Langstaff, Janet Burke, USEPA; ‘New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Monitoring Network’, Linda Bonanno, NJDEP; ‘Modeling Population Exposures, Sastry Isukapalli, EOHSI; ‘Developing Exposure Databases’; Cliff Weisel, Shang-Wei Wang; EOHSI.

6/16/07 - 10:30 AM-4:00 PM, TriState CACS 2007 Annual Symposium co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, “Chemistry Frontiers, Challenges and Opportunities”, A symposium on the development of small molecules by the pharmaceutical industry including drug screening and lead optimization (www.tristatecacs.org), Rutgers University Fiber Optic Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

6/14/07 - Andrew Gow, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University. "Nitric oxide and innate immunity: how do we get so much from so little?" 11:30am, Laboratory of Cancer Research, Rutgers School of Pharmacy.

6/1/2007 - Joshua P. Gray, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence. "Chemical Terrorism: the lung as a target." Sponsored by the New Jersey Thoracic Society. 10 am, Room 1302, Clinical Academic Building, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

5/31/2007-6/1/2007 - Workshop: The Mathematics of Homeland Security: Topics for High School Teachers. DIMACS Center - Rutgers. [link]

5/23/2007-5/24/2007 - The IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2007. Hyatt Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ. Dr. Jeffrey D. Laskin, P.I. for the UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence will participate in a panel on “Preparedness for and Response to High-Consequence Events” that will be moderated by Dr. Paul J. Lioy, Professor and Deputy Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at UMDNJ/Rutgers University [link]

5/11/2007 - Leonard A. Cole, Ph.D, Rutgers University, Newark. "Terror Medicine" 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

5/4/2007 - Jonathan B. Chaires, Ph.D. "Five Decades (almost) of Drug-DNA Interactions." 12pm at the Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.

5/4/2007 - Arturo Casadevall, Ph.D., Yeshiva University. "The Weapon Potential of a Microbe and the Select Agents Act". 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

5/3/2007 - Daniel Krewsski, Ph.D., Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. "Population Health Risk Assessment". 12pm, Conference Room C, EOHSI Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

4/27/2007 - The Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology Center at Rutgers is sponsoring a "Systems Toxicology" full day workshop, from 8:30am - 3:30pm at the CoRE Building Auditorium, Rutgers Busch Campus. For information, register here.

4/25/2007-4/27/2007 - The first annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium will take place from April 25-27 in Arlington VA. This meeting will facilitate information sharing and collaboration between investigators in the CounterACT Network and serve as a progress evaluation for the NIH. For news and information on registration for the CounterACT - Countermeasures Against Chemical Terrorism Annual meeting, see here [link].

4/24/07 - Thomas H. Rushmore, Ph.D., Drug Metabolism (Preclinical), Merck Research Laboratory, West Point, PA. "Application of pharmacogenetics in drug discovery and development: experiences in drug metabolism" Room 323A, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, 12pm.

4/11/2007-4/12/2007 - Short Course: A Field Guide to Gen Bank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources. DIMACS Center - Rutgers. [link]

4/6/2007 - Robert P. Casillas, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Battelle Biomedical Research Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH, April 6, 12:30, EOHSI room 402 “Mechanism of action of sulfur mustard”.  

4/2/2007 - Dr. Helmut Zarbl, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, "Using Aptamer Arrays to Identify Biomarkers of Chemical-induced Toxicity." EOHSI, Room 402, 12pm.

3/26/2007 - Mitchell D. Erickson, Ph.D., US Department of Homeland Security. Issues in Critical Infrastructure Protection, 10am, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Room 3A-B, Piscataway, NJ. "Dr. Erickson is a widely recognized expert on both chemical and radiological threats.  His talk will present the overarching needs to protect our nation’s infrastructure, and how the federal government is structured to meet these needs."

3/14/2007 - Panos Georgopoulos, Ph.D., Optimization tools for in silico proteomics, 12pm, EOHSI Conference Room C, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

3/9/2007 - Drew Endy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT. "Synthetic Biology and Biological Security" 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

3/1/2007 - Dana Barr, Ph.D., Toxicology Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control. “Assessing Exposure Using Biomonitoring” 12pm, EOHSI Building, conf room C, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

2/27/2007 - Seminar: "Challenges in Targeting Actives to the Skin", Bozena B. Michniak-Kohn, Ph.D., M.R., Pharm. S., Conference Room C, EOHSI Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

2/26/2007 - Opening of the new Department of Homeland Security "Center of Excellence" for Dynamic Data Analysis, 2:30-5:30 pm, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Also includes a presentation on DHS research problems at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a keynote address on data privacy by Steven Fienman of Carnegie-Mellon University.

1/26/07 - Documentation and Regulatory Requirements for Pharmaceutical Development - Noreen Sinko, Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy. 12-1pm, 007, Pharmacy Building, Rutgers University.

1/10/07 - New Rutgers Pharmaceutical Engineering course offering: "Pharmaceutical Organic Nanotechnology (16:155:544): this course provides an introduction to organic nanotechnolgoy and experimental design methods and their applications to designing and manufacturing drug products for the pharmaceutical industry.

12/13/2006 - William Welsh, Ph.D., Cheminformatics Tools for Toxicant Identification and Characterization, EOHSI, Conference Room C, Rutgers University, 12pm.

10/31/06 - Low surfactant delivery systems based upon sucrose ester emulsifiers - Paul Thau, Pa Car Tech, Berkeley Heights, NJ. 12:30 pm-1:30 pm, Conference Room C, EOHSI, Rutgers University.

10/26/06 - Laminin-332 and MMP-9 upregulation in wounded mouse skin - Donald Gerecke, Ph.D.
3-4:30pm, Seminar Room, Lab for Cancer Research, Rutgers University.

The UMDNJ/Rutgers University Counter Center is a collaboration between:

 

 

Related Links :

Below are links to national efforts to combat sulfur mustard toxicity:

Centers for Disease Control | Department of Homeland Security | CounterACT Program Home | Mustard gas

Message from the Director:

"This is a massive effort designed to coordinate many different research groups. We will develop drugs that can be used against actual chemicals that could be used in a terror attack."

Copyright © 2007 Joshua P. Gray