Join us for the next webinar in this special series marking the launch of the new Center to Advance Toxicology and Chemical Hazard Assessment (CATCHA). The next webinar is: A universe of toxicants, universally undertested: higher throughput approaches to birth defect detection in fluorescent zebrafish.

Dr. Joshua Everson (UT-Austin postdoctoral scholar and recent K99 awardee) will present on his innovative research aimed at elucidating key mechanisms underlying craniofacial malformations using the zebrafish model. Hundreds of thousands of human-made chemicals are present in the environment, but only 10-20,000 have been tested, with even less tested for developmental toxicity. Most birth defects do not have a known cause, and are predicted to arise fromdifficult to study multifactorial interactions between genetic and environmental factors. To help unravel this knot, Dr. Everson has developed a higher throughput method for detection of birth defects in vivo, that he is now using to identify and characterize environmental toxicants.

Thursday, December 7, 2023; 12 pm PT via Zoom. Register if you didn't already receive a calendar invite and would like one with the Zoom access information.