NTP UPDATE: NIEHS Environmental Factor now available online

The August 2011 issue of the NIEHS Environmental Factor is now online at:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/index.cfm <http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/index.cfm>

New oil spill grants, scientific director presentations, a strategic planning stakeholder workshop, an innovative engineered tissues symposium, and the two-day ONES workshop may top the headlines this month. But many of the stories in the August issue of the newsletter highlight the accomplishments of current and former trainees, administrators, and intramural scientists with papers featured in top journals.

This month the Environmental Factor also showcases new leading-edge research in papers and presentations by intramural and extramural scientists, record-breaking philanthropy in the Feds Feed Families food collection campaign, and science outreach by NIEHS scientists and staff.

Stories include:

 *   NIH-funded research network to explore oil spill health effects
 *   NIEHS hosts lecture series from scientific director final four
 *   NIEHS takes next step in strategic planning
 *   Interns enjoy program of career narratives
 *   Research fellow joins faculty at the University of South Carolina
 *   Fellows fare well in 2012 award competition
 *   NTP fellow wins travel award
 *   NTP postdocs pass laboratory animal medicine boards
 *   Henry and Thigpen Tart accepted in leadership program
 *   Former NIEHS trainee to spearhead expansion of cancer registry
 *   Mutation cluster discovery wins postdoc Roberts a poster prize
 *   Neurobiologist McPherson wins travel award to meeting in Athens
 *   Jung honored with mentoring award
 *   NIEHS celebrates five years of ONES research
 *   Symposium highlights emerging role of 3D tissue modeling in EHS
 *   Using nutrition to alter host susceptibility to environmental toxicants
 *   Study links phthalate and BPA exposure to altered thyroid signaling in humans
 *   Journal features Jean Harry article
 *   NIEHS investigators discover new mechanism in learning and memory
 *   New study explores the unexpected interface of RNA and DNA
 *   New journal makes surprising impact in first year of publication
 *   Ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA study honored by JBC
 *   Study finds BPA-exposed male deer mice less attractive to females
 *   Designing a human RNA-binding domain outlined in JBC paper of the week
 *   Interns participate in a series of scientific presentations
 *   Committee recommends alternative method for product safety testing

This month in EHP:

 *   Extramural papers of the month
 *   Intramural papers of the month
 *   Feds Feed Families off to a great start at NIEHS
 *   Future scientists are exposed to everyday chemistry
 *   NIEHS and NIH personnel unite for disabilities awareness
 *   Students from Duke summer program tour NIEHS