Teratology Society Awards

James C. Bradford Memorial Poster Award

Past recipients

2011
Aliya Frederick, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Potential Dopamine D1 Receptor Signaling Through Gaq: Behavioral and Biochemical Assessment”

Jessica LaRocca, Brown University (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Akt1 is Required for the Development of Appropriate Mammary Gland Composition and in the Regulation of Btn1a1”

2010
Augustine K. Agyekum, University of Georgia (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Oral Administration of Yogurt Reduces Listeria monocytogenes Tissue Invasion and Stillbirths in Guinea Pigs”

Sherif Eltonsy, University of Montreal (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Beta2-Agonists Use during Pregnancy and the Risk of Congenital Malformations”

2009
Denita Williams, University of Georgia (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Risk Assessment for Listeria monocytogenes-Induced Stillbirths Based on Dose Response in Pregnant Guinea Pigs and Nonhuman Primates”

Ann Marie Ramkissoon, University of Toronto (predoctoral)
Poster Title: “Methamphetamine (METH)-Initiated Cognitive Neurodevelopmental Deficits in Nuclear Factor-E2-Related Factor 2 (Nrf2)-Deficient Knockout Mice”

2008
Student - Claudio Gutierrez, VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine (Blacksburg, VA) - "Maternal Hyperglycemic Impact on Fetal Myocardial Apoptosis Gene Expression: Potential Relationship to Cardiac Defects".
Post-Doc - Nada Djokanovic, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) "Medications for Restless Leg Syndrome in Pregnancy".

2007
Julia Perstin, University of Toronto (predoctoral)
Poster Title: "Protective Role of Low Levels of Constitutive Catalase in Embryonic and Fetal Development"

Jillian Gee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Poster Title: "Developmental Evaluations of C57BL/6 Mice Exposed to 2,2',4,4'-Brominated Diphenyl Ether (DE47) on Postnatal Day 10".

2006
Swatee Dey (predoctoral), University of Kentucky

Andrea D. Weston, Ph.D. (postdoctoral), Pfizer Inc.

2005
Julia Gohlke, National Institute of Environmental Health Science

Maia Green, University of Louisville

2004
Robert G. Ellis-Hutchings, University of California At Davis, CA

Poster title: "Effects of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) exposure on biochemical indicators of nervous system development."

2003
Elizabeth Gribble, University of Washington

Valentina Massa, University of Milan

2002
Jennifer Willford, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Poster title: "Attention mediates the relations between prenatal alcohol exposure and executive function"

2001
Daniel Nazarenko, The Forsyth Institute, Boston, MA

Poster title - "Gestational activation of a TCDD-responsive LacZ transgene in mice and identification of TCDD-induced changes in the morphology of the paw."

2000
Rebecca J. Erwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Poster title - "Developmental exposure to propylthiouracil (PTU) disrupts long-delay visual eyeblink conditioning in juvenile rats."