2022 OVSOT Winners and Presenters
Students Megan Jacobs (in burgundy) and Katelyn Chism (in pink) presenting posters during OVSOT
Congratulations to the 2022 Ohio Valley Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (OVSOT) award winners and presenters! OVSOT holds an annual meeting to network with members and contribute to the development of future toxicologists by interacting with students and trainees. Below are the 2022 CIEHS awardees and presenters (members names bolded).
Keynote Presentation
Daniel Conklin, Ph.D.
“How Irritating! Electronic Cigarettes are not “95% Safer” than Combustible Cigarettes for the Cardiovascular System. Lessons Learned from Measurements of Biomarkers of Exposure and Biomarkers of Harm.”
Young Investigator Platform Presentation
Winner: Mayukh Banerjee, Ph.D.
“Zinc supplementation prevents mitotic accumulation in human keratinocyte cell lines upon environmentally relevant arsenic exposure”
Postdoc Platform Presentation
Winner: Alexandra Nail, Ph.D.
Mentor:J. Christopher States, Ph.D.
“Chronic Arsenic Exposure Reduces ATM Pathway Activation in Human Keratinocytes”
James Wise, Ph.D.
Mentor:David Hein, Ph.D.
“Effect of N-Acetyltransferase Polymorphism on Metabolism and Genotoxicity of 4,4’-Oxydianiline (ODA)”
Lexiao Jin, Ph.D.
Mentor:Daniel Conklin, Ph.D.
“Electronic Cigarette-derived Aerosols, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Platelet Activation in Mice: Role of Acrolein and Formaldehyde”
PhD Platform Presentation
Winner: Kennedy Walls
Mentor: David Hein, Ph.D.
“Hepatic metabolism of heterocyclic amines contributes to induction of glucose production and gluconeogenic gene expression in hepatocytes”
Ester Bolatimi
Mentors: Matthew Cave, M.D. & Jamie Young, Ph.D.
“Effects of subchronic dietary zinc supplementation on high fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease”
Mariam Habil
Mentor: David Hein, Ph.D.
“Double-edged sword nature of N-acetyltransferase polymorphisms”
PhD Poster
2nd Place: Idoia Meaza
Mentor: John Wise, Sr, Ph.D.
“The Unloading of Cohesin from Chromatin a New Mechanism for Hexavalent Chromium-Induced Carcinogenesis”
3rd Place: Caitlin Wilkerson
Mentor: Walter Watson, Ph.D.
“Alcohol Activates Dgat2 through α4 Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors in Hepatocyte Models”
Undergraduate Poster
1st Place: Katelyn Chism
Mentors: Rachel Neal, Ph.D. & Cynthia Corbitt, Ph.D.
“The Impact of Pre-conception and Gestational E-Cigarette Exposure on Offspring Behavior”
3rd Place: Megan Jacobs
Mentors: Rachel Neal, Ph.D. & Cynthia Corbitt, Ph.D.
“Impact of Developmental E-cig Exposure Nicotine Levels on Offspring Number, Birth Weight, and Kidney Weights”
High School Poster
James Marshall & Ruby Sullivan
Mentor:Walter Watson, Ph.D.
“Differences in resistance to erastin induced ferroptosis in the HaCaT and KerCT cell lines are not due to differences in glutathione amounts or metabolism”
Big Picture Science
1st Place: Samuel Vielee
Mentor: John Wise, Jr., Ph.D.
“A Mechanistic Approach to Categorizing Cr(VI) as a Gerontogen Using a Toxic Aging Coin”
2nd Place: Caitlin Wilkerson
Mentor: Walter Watson, Ph.D.
“Alcohol Activates Dgat2 through α4 Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors in Hepatocyte Models”
3rd Place: Idoia Meaza
Mentor: John Wise, Sr., Ph.D.
“The Unloading of Cohesin from Chromatin a New Mechanism for Hexavalent Chromium-Induced Carcinogenesis”