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Reif serves as Working Group member for the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph on Benzene

David Reif was a member of the Working Group that drew experts from around the world to a meeting in Lyon, France in order to evaluate the carcinogenicity of Benzene. 

Summaries of the final evaluations are available in the Lancet Oncology article. The detailed assessments will be published as …

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Transgenerational inheritance of neurobehavioral and physiological deficits from developmental exposure to benzo [a] pyrene in zebrafish (2017) Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Knecht AL, Truong L, Marvel SW, Reif DM, Garcia A, Lu C, Simonich MT,
Teeguarden JG, Tanguay RL. Transgenerational inheritance of neurobehavioral and
physiological deficits from developmental exposure to benzo[a]pyrene in
zebrafish. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2017 Jun 3;329:148-157. doi:
10.1016/…

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Reif presents at International Neurotoxicology Association meeting in Brazil

David Reif presented at the joint meeting of the International Neurotoxicology Association & Neurotoxicity Society in Florianopolis, Brazil. 

The seminar was entitled "Developing an Integrated Testing Strategy: Analytical methods to distill useful information from high-throughput screening of ch…

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An introduction to terminology and methodology of chemical synergy -perspectives from across disciplines (2017) Frontiers in Pharmacology

Integrating Morphological and Behavioral Phenotypes in Developing Zebrafish

Zhang G., Truong L., Tanguay R.L., Reif D.M. (2017) Integrating Morphological and Behavioral Phenotypes in Developing Zebrafish. In: Kalueff A. (eds) The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: Behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish. Springer, Cham.

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319337739

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Incorporating ToxCast and Tox21 datasets to rank biological activity of chemicals at Superfund sites in North Carolina (2017) Environment International

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The Proximity Principle

Christy Sadler and colleagues have written a new multimedia article about the Bioinformatics "cluster" at NC State University.

https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/the-proximity-principle

The term "cluster" is shorthand for the cluster hiring program known as the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Prog…

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A New Statistical Approach to Characterize Chemical-Elicited Behavioral Effects in High-Throughput Studies Using Zebrafish (2017) PLoS One

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A data-driven weighting scheme for multivariate phenotypic endpoints recapitulates zebrafish developmental cascades (2016) TAAP

Zhang G, Roell KR, Truong L, Tanguay RL, Reif DM. A data-driven weighting
scheme for multivariate phenotypic endpoints recapitulates zebrafish
developmental cascades. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2016 Nov 21. pii:
S0041-008X(16)30365-9. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2016.11.010. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed …

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Embryonic exposure to TCDD impacts osteogenesis of the axial skeleton in Japanese medaka, Oryzias latipes (2016) Toxicological Sciences

Embryonic exposure to TCDD impacts osteogenesis of the axial skeleton in Japanese medaka, Oryzias latipes. ALTD Watson, A Planchart, CJ Mattingly, C Winkler, DM Reif, SW Kullman. Toxicological Sciences, kfw229

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/14/toxsci.kfw229.full.pdf+html

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Eigenvector metabolite analysis reveals dietary effects on the association among metabolite correlation patterns, gene expression, and phenotypes (2016) Metabolomics

Eigenvector metabolite analysis reveals dietary effects on the association among metabolite correlation patterns, gene expression, and phenotypes. CHS Chialvo, R Che, D Reif, A Motsinger-Reif, LK Reed. Metabolomics 12 (11), 167.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11306-016-1117-3

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Analysis of the Effects of Cell Stress and Cytotoxicity on In Vitro Assay Activity Across a Diverse Chemical and Assay Space (2016) Toxicological Sciences

Judson R, Houck K, Martin M, Richard AM, Knudsen TB, Shah I, Little S,
Wambaugh J, Woodrow Setzer R, Kothya P, Phuong J, Filer D, Smith D, Reif D,
Rotroff D, Kleinstreuer N, Sipes N, Xia M, Huang R, Crofton K, Thomas RS.
Analysis of the Effects of Cell Stress and Cytotoxicity on In Vitro Assay
…

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Reif co-authors National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report "Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense"

David Reif served as a member of an expert committee that authored the report "Application of Modern Toxicology Approaches for Predicting Acute Toxicity for Chemical Defense". 

The official citation is:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Application of Modern Toxicolo…

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Reif part of multi-institute research team awarded EPA grant

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $6 million grant to fund a multi-institutional collaboration between the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Bioinformatics Research Center at NCSU. 

More information is available from the BRC and from Tex…

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Impact of Low Dose Oral Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) on Juvenile and Adult Rat Exploratory and Anxiety Behavior: A CLARITY-BPA Consortium Study (2015) Toxicological Sciences

Rebuli, Camacho, Adonay, Reif, Aylor, Patisaul. Impact of Low Dose Oral Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) on Juvenile and Adult Rat Exploratory and Anxiety Behavior: A CLARITY-BPA Consortium Study. (2015) Toxicological Sciences.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26209558

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Reif named Managing Editor of journal BioData Mining

David Reif has been named the new Managing Editor of the journal BioData Mining 

BioData Mining is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal encompassing research on all aspects of data mining applied to high-dimensional biological and biomedical data, focusing on computational aspects o…

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Toxicity testing in the 21st century beyond environmental chemicals (2015) Altex

Costanza Rovida, Shoji Asakura, Mardas Daneshian, Hana Hofman-Huether, Marcel Leist, Leo Meunier, David Reif, Anna Rossi, Markus Schmutz, Jean-Pierre Valentin, Joanne Zurlo, Thomas Hartung.Toxicity testing in the 21st century beyond environmental chemicals. (2015) Altex 32 (3), 171-181.

http://w…

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High-throughput characterization of chemical-associated embryonic behavioral changes predicts teratogenic outcomes (2015) Archives of Toxicology

High-throughput characterization of chemical-associated embryonic behavioral changes predicts teratogenic outcomes (2015) Archives of Toxicology

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26126630

(NOTE: Full-text available for free via link above or here)

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Reif serves on expert Working Group for the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC)

David Reif was a member of the Working Group that drew experts from 13 countries to a meeting in Lyon, France in order to evaluate the carcinogenicity of the the insecticides gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (lindane) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic a…

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Molecular cloning, functional characterization, and evolutionary analysis of vitamin d receptors isolated from Basal vertebrates (2015) PLoS One

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25855982

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