News

 

  • Congratulations to Megan Knuth PhD for completion of her dissertation titled: “Vitamin D Deficiency is a Precursor to Stunted Growth and Metabolic Dysregulation“. 
  • Dr Kullman provides a comment on Thyroid Hormone receptor function in a manuscript review in the June 2020 issue of EHP. athttps://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP6520.
  • Welcome Morgan Ritter to the Kullman Lab
  • Kullman Lab and NCSU receive NIEHS Support in conjunction with Ewan Birney (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Jochen Wittbrodt (University of Heidelberg), Jared Goldstone (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) to study The medaka Kiyosu panel: dissecting GxE effects of environmental chemicals. In this study we have assembled an international, multi-disciplinary team to exploit a unique resource, the wild-derived inbred Kiyosu panel of medaka (Japanese rice-paddy) fish to investigate how environmental exposures have a variable impact on individuals through genetic variation Here we investigate “Gene x Environment” (GxE) effects to both quantify phenotypic changes and importantly gain mechanistic, molecular understanding of the biological pathways involved in contaminant responses in cardiovascular and skeletal toxicity.
  • Deb’s Paper in Scientific Reports is cited in press https://phys.org/news/2018-07-vitamin-d-receptor-disruption-environmental.html fbclid=IwAR0WZ2dFkfteCGcNibjqKx6xFp6Cl4shdXEYvzAOTUBzQLUTBHufdhMPhss
  • Congratulations to Debabrata Mahapatra PhD for completion of his dissertation titled: “Vitamin D Receptor and Xenobiotic Interactions: Insights into diversity and complexity of molecular interactions and their outcomes”
  • Congratulations to AtLee Watson PhD for completion of his dissertation titled: “Aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated inhibition of osteogenesis in Japanese madaka and human bone-derived mesenchymal stem cells”
  • Kullman Lab and NCSU receive NIEHS support through the Duke University Superfund Research Center. Project 2 Altering the Balance of Adipogenic and Osteogenic Regulatory Pathways from Early-Life Exposure to HPCs and AOPEs,” which is aimed at understanding how the regulation of key receptor pathways in the body may help mediate later-life skeletal malformations, obesity and other harmful effects of early exposure to halogenated phenolic compounds (HPCs), chemicals which mimic hormones on the body. https://nicholas.duke.edu/about/news/niehs-awards-102-million-grant-duke-superfund-research-center
  • Crystals’s results on intersex in NC waterways featured in Environmental Health News. http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2015/aug/intersex-fish-north-carolina-endocrine-disruption-chemicals-drugs-water
  • Congratulations to Crystal Lee Pow who won the 2015: Richard L. Noble Best Student Paper Awards at the NC Chapter of American Fisheries Society.
  • Congratulations to Crystal Lee Pow who won the 2014: Foundation for Toxicology and Agromedicine Supplemental Scholarship ($2000.00)
  • Congratulations to AtLee Watson who won the First place student poster award, Collaborative Workshop on Aquatic Animal Models and 21st Century Toxicology 2014