Environmental & Molecular Toxicology

Collaborative Programs

The Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology works closely with several research Centers and Institutes at Oregon State University. They include:

• Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing
• Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET)
• Environmental Health Sciences Center
• Linus Pauling Institute
• Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center

Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB)

Director: James Carrington, Ph.D.
3021 Ag & Life Sciences Building
Corvallis, OR 97331-7303
Phone: 541-737-3347 Fax: 541-737-3045
Email: carrington@oregonstate.edu
http://www.cgrb.orst.edu

The Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University serves the biosciences research community at Oregon State University with the ultimate goal of improving health, natural and agricultural resources, and environmental quality. The Center offers leadership and services to faculty, staff and students through core facilities, seminars, and retreats. It also provides a focal point for researchers to make contacts, initiate collaborations, and establish new technologies in their own laboratories.

Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET)

Director: Peter Spencer, Ph.D., FRCPath
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L606
Portland, Oregon 97201-3098
Phone: 503-494-4273 Fax: 503-494-4278
Email: spencer@ohsu.edu
http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/index.html

CROET, the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, is dedicated to health and safety in the workforce. Their mission is to promote health, and prevent disease and disability among working Oregonians and their families during their employment years and through retirement. They do so through basic and applied research, outreach and education. CROET works to prevent illness and disability in partnership with labor, industry, government and the community. As part of Oregon Health & Science University - Oregon's only academic health center
- we embrace the university's multifaceted mission of healing, teaching, discovery, and community service to improve the well-being of people in Oregon and beyond.

Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Center

Director: Joseph S. Beckman, Ph.D.
1011 ALS Building
Corvallis, OR 97331-7302
Phone: 541-737-8820 Fax: 541-737-4371
Email: joe.beckman@oregonstate.edu
http://www.ehsc.orst.edu

The Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Center was established in 1967 with funding by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health. The Center provides resources for coordination and stimulation of interdisciplinary basic research and training related to effects of environmental agents on human health. The theme of the research mission for the EHS Center is to generate new understandings of the effects of environmental agents on proteins, nucleic acids, and gene expression. The research activities are devoted largely to (1) interactions of environmental agents with cellular macromolecules, (2) the effects of such agents on gene expression and the properties of gene products, and (3) the analytical tools with which to analyze the environmental agents and the nature of their interactions with macromolecules at the cellular level and in the environment.

Linus Pauling Institute (LPI)

Director: Balz Frei, Ph.D.
571 Weniger Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-6512
Phone: 541-737-5078 Fax: 541-737-5077
Email: balz.frei@oregonstate.edu
http://lpi.orst.edu/

The Linus Pauling Institute was established at Oregon State University in August 1996 under an agreement reached between OSU and its antecedent organization, the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (located in California from 1973 to 1996). The Institute functions from the basic premise that an optimum diet is the key to optimum health. Our mission is to determine the function and role of micronutrients, vitamins, and phytochemicals in promoting optimum health and preventing and treating disease; to determine the role of oxidative stress and antioxidants in human health and disease; and to advance knowledge in areas that were of interest to Linus Pauling through research and education.

Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Sciences (MFBS) Center

Director: David Williams, Ph.D.
232 Wiegand Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: 541-737-3277 FAX: 541-737-7966
Email: david.williams@oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/mfbcenter

The Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Sciences (MFBS) Center at OSU is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the institutes comprising the National Institutes of Health. The MFBS Center promotes research and training activities that utilize aquatic research models to investigate environmentally related human diseases. Research programs of Center Investigators are currently focused on the study of cancer and neurotoxicity. Center activities include a pilot project support mechanism for feasibility studies, support of an aquatic research core facility and a molecular structure core facility, a seminar series, annual reviews, regularly scheduled research meetings and conferences, and a community outreach and education program.