[ascct] December 2 live webcast -- The NIEHS-NCATS-UNC DREAM Toxicogenetics Challenge: Crowd-sourcing Tox21 Quantitative High Throughput Screening Data

  • From: Kristie Sullivan <KSullivan@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ascct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ascct@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 14:32:10 -0500

> On Dec 2nd, from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm, NIEHS will be live web-casting a 
> two-part seminar on the recently completed crowd-sourced NIEHS-NCATS-UNC 
> DREAM Toxicogenetics Challenge.  The data for this Challenge was generated as 
> part of the Tox21 Phase II effort (http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/tox21).  Nour 
> Abdo (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) will present "The 1000 
> genomes toxicity screening project: Utilizing the power of human genome 
> variation for population-scale in vitro testing" and Hao Tang (University of 
> Texas Southwestern Medical Center), a lead member on the team that won the 
> challenges, will present "Estimating population-scale toxicities for 
> environmental chemicals from genomic and chemical information". More 
> information on the presentations can be found at 
> http://www.niehs.nih.gov/funding/assets/docs/toxicogenetics_challenge_seminar_508.pdf.
> 
> Information on how to access the webcast is available on the NIEHS website at 
> http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/webcasts/index.cfm.


Kristie Sullivan
Secretary, ASCCT
ksullivan@xxxxxxxxxxx



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