2013 03 25 Meeting Minutes

Exposure through the Life Cycle CoR Teleconference

Highlights and Action Items

March 25, 2013

Participants: Rick Canady (CoR co-chair, ILSI Research Foundation), Geert Cornelis (University of Gothenburg), Kim Guzan (RTI), Mark Hoover (NIOSH), Thomas Kuhlbusch (CoR co-chair, Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology e.V.), Karmann Mills (RTI), Alex Orlov (Stony Brook University), Michele Ostraat (RTI), Stacey Standridge (National Nanotechnology Coordination Office), Dik van de Meent (RIVM), and Gabrielle Windgasse (California Department of Public Health)

Handouts:

• Nanomaterials Registry Presentation on Potential Collaboration with Exposure COR

Meeting Highlights:

Presentation:

Michele, Kim, and Karmann gave an overview of how data is curated and accessed in the Nanomaterials Registry (https://www.nanomaterialregistry.org/Default.aspx, the presentation slides are available at https://us-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nanomaterial-registry-overview-reduced.pdf). This presentation was designed to explore a possible collaboration between the Exposure COR and the Nanomaterials Registry towards developing a database of methodologies for characterizing exposure scenarios and nanomaterials in environmental media.

Discussion:

Currently the Nanomaterials registry is heavily focused on particle chemistry – not methodologies. However, a significant amount of metadata is being collected that could be used to display data by protocols and methodologies; a new query feature would need to be developed to sort by methodology information.

Case studies may be informative in developing this tool.

This COR should communicate and collaborate with the Databases and Ontologies COR as this project evolves. (Note: The co-chairs for the Databases & Ontologies and the Predictive Modeling for Human Health COR will be invited to the next Exposure COR call in April).

The COR should clarify the criteria (data types, data structure, endpoints, etc.) for data that would be valuable to the community.

Action Items:

• Stacey
  • Publicize features of us-eu.org for collaboration and communication
  • Schedule next COR call for late April
  • Work with Rick and Thomas to develop and distribute a survey of desired data types, structures, and endpoints.
  • COR
    • Explore the Nanomaterials Registry (https://www.nanomaterialregistry.org/Default.aspx) and respond to survey when it is posted
    • Send specific suggestions for how collaboration would proceed and a letter of support for this collaboration to Nanomaterials Registry team