The OSU T32 Training  Program supports  6 pre-doctoral trainees and 3 post-doctoral trainees each year under the auspices of an NIEHS Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional  Research Training Grant (T32). Our training program has a long track record of over  50ys success training doctoral students and post-doctoral scientists in the Environmental Health Sciences.

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Opportunities

Dr. Caren Weinhouse at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is seeiking a full-time postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Health Sciences, Molecular Genetics, or a related field. The postdoc will work as part of a team on an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) R01 award funded through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The goal of this project is to test a mechanism for initiation and promotion of liver cancer in mice by the endocrine disrupting compound bisphenol A (BPA).

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For more information, contact the T32 Directors here, or Dr. Weinhouse by clicking here.

Objectives

The objective for our Integrated Regional Training Program in Environmental Health Sciences continues to be to recruit and train scientists in the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS). Primary goals are: 

  1. Recruit a diverse cohort of trainees.
  2. Individualize transdisciplinary, experiential learning employing Individual Development Plans (IDP) for each trainee to provide structured scientific, professional and career development in the environmental health sciences.
  3. Train the next generation of scientists to be leaders in environmental health sciences (EHS). 

Highlights

  • Short externships to further promote interdisciplinary training and professional development in real-world potential employment environments.
  • Pilot grants for trainees unique collaborative training environment provided by OSU,OHSU and PNNL supplemented by new regional training partners in the academic, regulatory, and private sector. 
  • Training topics in EHS include: molecular toxicology, environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, systems toxicology, hazard identification, exposure biology, epidemiology, developmental toxicology, nanotoxicology, computational and predictive toxicology, microbiome/environment interactions, neuro/behavioral toxicology, inter-individual susceptibility, metal toxicology, metabolism, diet-environment interactions and translational data sciences. 
  • Our former trainees continue to make major contributions in the academic, public, and federal sectors demonstrating the effectiveness of our training program.

Resources

  • Trainee NIH Reporting and Citing the Center guidelines PDF. This PDF provides links to the required reporting forms as well as has suggestions for their use. It also includes a section on citing the center when you're writing publications, presentations and posters.
  • NIH CareerTrac Portal: NIH uses CareerTrac to track trainee accomplishments across multiple grants. For the T32 grant, trainees can enter their accomplisments individually, with their ERA Commons login.

Regional Training Faculty

(OSU, OHSU, PNNL)
Mechanisms of action of environmental neurotoxins
(Fryer, Tanguay, Raber, Sherman)
Epigenetics
(Tanguay, Ho, Weinhouse)
Nanotoxicology
(Thrall, Tanguay, Harper)
Environmental carcinogenesis
(Ho, Indra, McCullough,Thayer)
Environmental immunotoxins
(Fryer)
Receptor-mediated toxicity
(Tanguay, Kolluri, Indra, Ho, Marcus)
Public Health, Epidemiology and Risk Assessment
(Kile, Teeguarden)
DNA repair mechanisms
(McCullough, Thayer)
Dietary micronutrients and disease susceptibility
(Traber, Ho, Stevens)
Oxidative stress and disease
(Thrall, Stevens)
Exposure Biology
(Anderson, Simonich, Tanguay)
Systems Toxicology and Computational Toxicology
(Tilton, Waters, Tanguay)
Developmental toxicity of environmental chemicals
(Harper, Tanguay, Ho)
Non-mammalian models for EHS research
(Stubblefield, Tanguay, Harper)
Metals Toxicology
(Rothenberg, Stubblefield)
Microbiome
(Sharpton, Tanguay, Ho, Rothenberg)
Metabolomics and natural products
(Stevens, Maier, Marcus)
Exosomes, RNA Splicing
(Marcus)
Unnatural amino acids, protein structure and function
(Mehl)
Environmental Chemistry
(Field, Anderson, Garcia-Jaramillo)

Recruitment and Application

Our recruitment process is designed to attract the best and brightest while also attaining diversity in our training cohort by attracting trainees from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups in STEM.

The outcome of our training program is to matriculate trainees with the skills, experience, and ethics to address a wide range of complex, critical, and rapidly evolving problems in EHS. 
 

To apply to our T32 Program for a pre-doctoral fellowship or a post-doctoral fellowship, please contact the T32 Co-directors by email and include your current CV