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Olga Tsyusko is Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Kentucky. She received her B.Sc. in Biology from Uzhgorod National University in Ukraine and her Ph.D. in Toxicology at the University of Georgia in the United States. Her postdoctoral training was completed at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory where she later worked as Molecular Biologist. The focus of her research is on environmental toxicogenomics, examining effects and toxicity mechanisms of engineered nanomaterials in soil invertebrates and plants. She is a member of the Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology.

Jason M. Unrine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Prior to this he served as a research scientist at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory where he also undertook his doctoral and postdoctoral training in toxicology and environmental analytical chemistry. He earned his B.Sc. in Biology from Antioch College. His research focuses on understanding the fate, transport, bioavailability and adverse ecological effects of trace-elements and metal-based manufactured nanomaterials. He is a member of the steering committee of the Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT).

Dr Chatterjee received her B.Sc. (2001) and M.Sc. (2003) from University of Calcutta and moved to China to peruse her Ph.D. with the fellowship of India Government and Chinese scholarship council. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science (Environmental Toxicology) from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, in 2009. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr Choi's lab at the University of Seoul. She is engaged in the study of mechanisms of comparative (human and C. elegans) toxicity of environmental contaminants, specifically nanomaterials.

Ms J.-M. Ahn received her B.Sc. (2010) from University of Incheon and her M.Sc. (2013) from University of Seoul. For her M.Sc. she studied toxicity mechanisms of various nanomaterials in C. elegans. Since 2013, she has worked at the Risk Assessment Division in the Korean National Institute of Environmental Research.

Xinyu Yang received her Bachelors degree in Environmental Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in July 2007, and then got her Master's degree in Zoology with Jim Oris from Miami University in July 2009. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Duke University in 2014. Most of her Ph.D. work was focussed on the mechanistic toxicology of silver nanoparticles both in laboratory and environmental settings. She has published nine peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental studies. With strong passion to apply her expertise in industrial settings, she currently joined Nalco-Ecolab as a regulatory specialist in Naperville, IL.

Lila Thornton graduated from Duke University in 2013 with Bachelor degrees in Biology and Environmental Science. She is currently an independent contractor for the US Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Chemical Safety for Sustainability National Research Program. Ms Thornton plans on pursuing a higher degree in the field of toxicology.

Ian Ryde received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2002 and then moved to the Raleigh–Durham area and started work in Dr Ted Slotkin's lab at Duke University in 2005. After 5 years in the Slotkin Lab, Ian moved on to Dr Joel Meyer's laboratory at Duke, where he has been for over 4 years now, working as a Laboratory Analyst II. He started working with the nematode C. elegans and on projects involving mitochondrial DNA damage and its effects on things such as mtDNA copy number, mRNA expression and neurodegeneration.

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