Recent News

Call-for-Abstracts for the SRP-ATSDR Meeting

Date: 7-8 August 2012

This is a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase SRP research at ATSDR. More than that, ATSDR plans to web-broadcast the presentations to  its  regional offices and state affiliates  - making your presentations real-time to a wider group! For more details, please click here.

Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy

Date: 25-27 June 2012
Place: UC Davis

The 5th annual Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy is a springboard for moving green tech research out of the lab and into the world.

The Academy is open to graduate students, postdocs and faculty in science and engineering, focused on green tech research.  It is open to applicants from national and international universities.

Application deadline: May 25, 2012. For more information, please click here.

Happy 26th Anniversary!

UC Davis Superfund Research Program, now in its 26^th year, launches a brand new logo to recognize its 26 years of outstanding research.

Pre-doctoral fellowships are now open for application

Deadline: May 15, 2012. For more information, please click here.

Research Brief 207 by Angela Spivey

Particulate matter pollution: A particular problem for the young?

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UC Davis student won at 2012 California Plant and Soil Conference

Date: 7-8 February 2012
Place: Visalia, CA

Daniel Bair, Soils and Biochemistry Ph.D. student, was awarded First Place in the student poster competition at the 2012 California Plant and Soil Conference, American Society of Agronomy, CA Chapter, held last month in Visalia, CA. Along with Prof. Sanjai Parikh and Prof. Thomas Young, they examine the potential for biochar additions to biosolid amended soil to minimize bioavailability and mobility of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin. Click here to know more and see the award-winning poster!

 "Advances in Immunoassays for Pesticide Detection" at Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety seminar by Shirley Gee"

Date: 5 March 2012
Place: Board room, Center for Health and Environment, Old Davis Rd, Davis, CA

Since the 1950s immunoassays have been a standard method in clinical laboratories.  In the early 1980s, Bruce Hammock and colleagues applied this valuable technology to the detection of pesticides in humans, commodities and the environment.  Our goal is to continually improve the technology to achieve faster, more sensitive, field portable assays. This talk will present the basis of immunoassays then describe the recent techniques applied to assays for environmental contaminants such as pyrethroid insecticides, herbicides, personal care products and other materials.  New technology include novel sandwich assays for small molecules using phage displayed peptides and development of heat stable recombinant nanobodies cloned from alpaca.  These new binding reagents promise to revolutionize immunoassay development providing up to 5-50x improvement in sensitivity.  More practically, we are applying these technologies to evaluate exposure of farm workers and their families to pesticides and other environmental contaminants toward reducing exposure and thus improving health.

Research Brief 204 by Dr. Michael Denison

CALUX Generation 3 - Enhanced Sensitivity for Low Volume / Low Concertration Samples

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PI and Associates November Meeting

Date: 11 November 2011
Place: 366 Briggs Hall, UC Davis, CA

Staff Ressearch Associate Shirley Gee's update on Immunoassays for Human and Environmental Monitoring (Project 3).

2011 Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting

Date: 24-25 October 2011
Place: Lexington, KY

Assistant Project Scientist Hee-Joo Kim (left) and Postdoctoral Researcher Zuzana Majkova (right) attended the Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting Poster Session.