Environmental Factor online

The February 2011 issue of the Environmental Factor is now online at:

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/index.cfm

In this month’s news, NIEHS gears up for a busy conference season, and EHP rolls out an expanded science education program. Employees celebrate the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. NTP forges ahead with workshops on alternative testing and on environmental exposures and their potential impact on obesity and diabetes.

As always, there are reports about workshops, new NIEHS-supported research, and lectures, as well as kudos for postdocs, employees, scientists, and grantees recognized for their accomplishments.

Stories include:

SOT to celebrate 50th anniversary benchmark
EHP Science Education Program expanding
Measuring efforts to translate science into public health action
NIEHS-supported database joins TOXNET
James Mason elected AAAS fellow
Center grantees named AAAS fellows
Superfund researcher honored by AAAS
Androphy selected for 2011 “Top 5” leadership class
Students confront the human health effects of climate change
NIEHS takes its message on the road
NAS series continues with workshop on microbiome
Search opens for NIEHS associate director for management
NTP workshop investigates links between chemicals and obesity
Miller explores the longest signaling pathway in endothelial cells
Mismatch base pairing is structurally similar to correct base pairing
Faculty of 1000 highlights study by Korach group
NIEHS clinical researchers highlighted in JAMA
Are plastics without estrogenic-active compounds possible?
"Phosphorylopathies," a new class of human disorders
Environmental toxicants transfer from mother to baby
Assigning a function to histone modifying enzymes
NTP alternatives center holds workshops on best safety testing
This month in EHP
Upcoming distinguished lecture by Maiken Nedergaard
Papers of the month
NIEHS remembers Martin Luther King Jr.