Home | Pitt Home

Patricia Opresko - Professional Organizations

Committees - University/Institute of Higher Education

Years	Committee	Position
May 2009	2009 UPPDA Postdoctoral Data & Dine Symposium	Faculty dinner table host
February 2009	Interview students for MBSB graduate program	Interviewer
November 2008	Interviewed for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette “The Thinkers” column.  Nov 3 issue “Researcher Seeks Clues to Aging in Our DNA” – Mark Roth	Interviewee
October 2008	Organized a session on “DNA Damage in Neurodegration, Aging and Cancer” at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society, PR	Co-organizer and Co-chair
June 2008 - present	GSPH Academic Integrity Committee	Member
August 2008 - present	Educational Policies and Curriculum Committee – Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh	Member
April 2008 - present	Department of EOH STEER high school student summer internship.  Committee to select interns	Member
April 2008 - present	Department of EOH summer undergraduate internship program.  Committee to select interns.	Member
May 2008	10th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA.  Committee to select oral presentations from submitted abstracts	Member
April 2008	11th Annual NIEHS Career Fair	Invited panelist for Tenure-track Academia
April 2008	2008 Course in Scientific Management and Leadership University of Pittsburgh Session: “Challenges and Barriers to Academic Career Success: What are They and How to Overcome Them”	Invited Panelist
May 2007	Pittsburgh Chromatin Club Spring 2007 Mini-symposium, University of Pittsburgh, PA	Chair Session 1
May 2006	International Workshop on RecQ Helicases and Other Helicases in Telomere Maintenance and Related Pathways, Lansdowne	Co-organizer
2006 - present	Graduate Advisory Committee: Environmental Health Sciences  graduate program, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh	Member
2006	Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Dean's Day Student Research Competition: Delta Omega Poster and Rosenkranz Awards	Judge
2006 - present	Curriculum Committee: Environmental Health Sciences graduate program, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh	Member
2000-2005	Committee for Organizing Seminars in the Laboratory for Molecular Gerontology, NIA, NIH, Baltimore, MD	Member

Journal Reviewing

2000-2004	Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Cancer Research, Human Genetics Chemico-Biological Interactions, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2005 - 2006	FEBS Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Oncogene
2006 - 2007	DNA Repair, Central European Journal of Physics
2007 - 2008	Mechanisms of Aging and Development, EMBO J, BMC Medicine, Oncogene, Neurobiology of Aging, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
2008 - 2009	Molecular Microbiology

Membership in Professional and Scientific Societies

1999 - present		American Association for Cancer Research
2005 - present		Environmental Mutagen Society
2006 - present		University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Molecular Oncology program

Study Sections, Review Panels, and Related Advisory Boards

Date	Position	Organization and Nature of Activity
10/1-2/2007	Member	Study Section, NIGMS, MBRS Support of Competitive Research Review Panel, ZGM1 MBRS-7 CC

Leadership in Professional Organizations and Honorary Societies

Date	Position	Organization
2008	Co-chair, Session on DNA repair, aging, neurodegeneration, and cancer	Environmental Mutagen Society, 39th annual meeting program committee
2006	Member	Environmental Mutagen Society, 38th annual meeting program committee