On November 27, 2007, BU SBRP researcher Mark Hahn (Project 5) presented a seminar at the Rhode Island Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).

BU SBRP researchers Mark Hahn (project 5) and David Sherr (project 4) have a new publication titled "Repression of aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) signaling by AHR repressor (AHRR): Role of DNA binding and competition for ARNT" in the journal Molecular Pharmacology. In this paper the authors propose a mechanism for aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling through protein-protein interactions.

BU SBRP researcher Tom Webster (Project 2) is organizing a Workshop on Ecological Inference through the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University. The workshop will be held on November 28-30, 2007, at the DIMACS Center at Rutgers University.

Madeleine Scammell and Jessica Nelson, BU SBRP Translation and Outreach staff, recently presented the findings of the Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring at the Public Health Applications of Human Biomonitoring Meeting in North Carolina.  The meeting was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the International Council of Chemical Associations. Madeleine spoke about the Consensus Conference during a symposium looking at the “Challenges Faced in Communication of Biomonitoring Information” and Jessica presented a poster about the Consensus Conference. An article describing the consensus conference and reporting the lay panel findings was subsequently published in the subscription news service, BNA.

For more information about the Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring please visit www.biomonitoring06.org.