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Cost is prohibitive to assess all NMs Published ES&T Feb 2009. Phase 1. Screen 20 NP’s identified via High-Throughput system (HTS) at UCLA. Phase 2. 5-10 NP’s identified in phase 1. Phase 3. 2-3 NP’s from phase 2. IRG2 : Interactions at Molecular, Cellular, Organ & Systemic Levels - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
UC CEIN: Predictive Toxicology Assessment and UC CEIN: Predictive Toxicology Assessment and Safe Implementation of Nanotechnology in the Safe Implementation of Nanotechnology in the
EnvironmentEnvironmentPrincipal Investigators:
A. Nel1,2,3,4,Y. Cohen2,3,5, H. Godwin1,2,3, A. Keller2,6, R. Nisbet2,7
Mission and ObjectivesMission and Objectives
Education/OutreachEducation/OutreachCourses, Seminars & Training Modules in Year 1(All available via web)•Formal coursework made available to CEIN Members:
• Nanotoxicology• Fundamentals of Toxicology• Nanotechnology & The Environment
• Seminars & Workshops for all UC CEIN members:•Two half-day workshops on effective journalist-science communications•Five seminars (2 at UCLA; 3 at UCSB)
•Training Modules:• Two modules on safe handling developed/being transferred to interactive online
format and two modules on development & validation of standard protocols
Regulatory Policy•Worked with legislators/policymakers to ensure future legislation is based on sound science, such as mark-ups for Nano EHS bill, HR 5940 (2008)•A Working Conference on Nanotech Regulatory Policy was co-organized and co-sponsored by UC CEIN and the UCLA Law School on April 17, 2009, and the papers presented will be published in an upcoming issue of the UCLA Law Review.
Synergistic Activities•Student/Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPAC) Activities:
• July 2009 retreat at UCSB – introduce research to all Center trainees• Leadership workshop – in conjunction with ICEIN 2009 – 30 researchers from both CEINs engaged in leadership activities and interactive learning experiences
•Standard Protocols Project: An Interdisciplinary Protocols Working Group has been established, a standard template for protocols has been developed, and individuals across IRGs are working on transferring protocols to this template.
K-12 Outreach•For K-12 outreach activities, the UC CEIN lead hands-on activities at local schools, and H. Godwin gave a lecture and lead an interactive activity for the 2009 SciArt summer program, Nanotechnology, Health, and the Environment.
Ongoing & Future Initiatives•In a partnership with California Teach at the UCLA Campus, UC CEIN will recruit and train undergraduates for volunteering to lead science activities in K-12 schools and at the CA Science Center.•Predictive models developed in the UC CEIN will inform the development of oversight and regulation approaches for nanomaterial production.
UC CEIN Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs)
AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements1 Department of Environmental Health Science, UCLA School of Public Health, 16-035 CHS, BOX 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095.2 UC Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), University of California Los Angeles, 6522 CNSI, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7277.3 California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, 570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, Los Angeles, CA 90095.4 Division of NanoMedicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095.5 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 5531 Boelter Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA6 School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara7 Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology University of California Santa Barbara
The mission of the UC CEIN is to ensure that nanotechnology is introduced in a responsible and environmentally compatible manner to allow the US and international communities to leverage the benefits of nanotechnology for global, economic, and social benefit.
The UC CEIN seeks to: •Develop a library of reference nanomaterials (NMs);•Develop a predictive model of toxicology & the environmental impacts of NMs;•Understand the impacts of NMs on organisms and ecological systems, and •Develop guidelines and decision tools for the safe design and use of NMs.
The UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN) at UC Los Angeles (UCLA) is in partnership with UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), UC Davis (UCD), UC Riverside (UCR), Columbia University in New York, the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU), University of New Mexico (UNM), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), University of Texas in El Paso (UTEP), University of Bremen (Germany), University of British Columbia (UBC), Cardiff University (Wales), University College Dublin (UCD, Ireland), and Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain (URV).
IRG5: High Throughput Screening to Develop Predictive Toxicological Paradigms based on Material Properties
TiO2, CeO2, ZnO, and NH2PS
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Phase 1Screen 20 NP’s identified
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Phase 25-10 NP’s
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Phase 1: Rapid Toxicity Bioassays
Phase 2: Toxic effects predicted by IRG2 (ROS, lysosomal stability, apoptosis)
Phase 3: Mesocosm experiments for species interactions, bioaccumulation and biomagnification
IRG3: Effects of Nanomaterials on Marine Ecosystems
Coastal Marine Food Web
IRG6: Develop Decision Tool to Assess the Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials
• Nuclear energy vs. Nanotechnology• Regulatory caution evident in NM case
Comparative Risk Case Analysis
IRG7: Environmental Risk Perception
Modeling Regulatory Challenges in NM
Lifecycle
• Cost is prohibitive to assess all NMs• Published ES&T Feb 2009
US Public Environmental RP
Survey
• 2010 national survey in development• CNS-UCSB 2008 public survey as baseline—Enviro
RP, weighting relative concerns about NMs in soil, air, H20
Data collection in progress
Aug 2008 ASA presentation
EST 2009 publication
Nature Nano 2009; ChemE 2009 (in press)
Combinatorial library designed to provide the same material in different sizes, shapes, roughness, aspect ratios, states of dispersal, chemical composition, etc.
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IRG2: Interactions at Molecular, Cellular, Organ & Systemic Levels
Trophic Transfer & Biomagnification of CdSe Quantum Dots
IRG4: Nanoparticle Fate and Transport
Cellular/tissue/system
NM libraries & characterization
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Screening
Computerized expert system, multimedia
modeling, risk ranking
Risk perception
Fate & Transport
Molecular, cellular, & organ injury pathways
Organism, population, community & ecosystem
toxicology
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IRG 4
IRG 3IRGs 5, 6, 7
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency under Cooperative Agreement Number EF 0830117. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Environmental Protection Agency. This work has not been subjected to EPA review and no official endorsement should be inferred.
High Throughput Screening and Data Mining based on property-activity relationships that can be used to rank NM for
risk and priority in vivo testing
High Throughput Bacterial, Cellular or Molecular Screening
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ZnO 200 IRG4 research focuses on understanding the mobility and bioavailability of NPs in different environmental conditions. Our work with metal oxide NPs has shown that they can be easily stabilized under freshwater conditions, which is a major pathway from the sources (e.g. wastewater treatment plant discharge, stormwater, other runoff) into other environmental compartments, such as estuaries and oceans, where the particles sediment rapidly. This has important implications for aquatic organisms that are exposed to particles either in the water column or sediments.
R. Werlin, J.H. Priester, R.E. Mielke, S. Jackson, G.D. Stucky, G. Cherr, E. Orias, P.A. Holden
IRG Leader – Jeffrey Zink, UCLA IRG Leader – Patricia Holden, UCSB IRG Leader – Hunter Lenihan, UCSB
IRG Leader – Barbara Herr Harthorn, UCSB
IRG Leader – Yoram Cohen, UCLAIRG Leader – Kenneth Bradley, UCLAIRG Leader – Arturo Keller, UCSB
Challenges: Screening the effects of new nanomaterials (NM) requires the development of models for the environmental distribution of NM and their toxicity.
Goals: • Similarity criteria for NM and data-driving QSPRs and
QSARs models for NM physicochemical properties and toxic effects
• Environmental intermedia transport relations for NM and multimedia NM transport• Decision tools for the safe use and design of NM
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Solutions: Develop and apply machine learning techniques for NM classification and property predictions; Apply multimedia transport and fate models to evaluate the dynamic mass distribution of NM, and Apply decision tools incorporating quantitative and qualitative information for decision making