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If You Wrote It Down, Is It Useful? Creating a Database of Chemicals Identified in Consumer Products through Non-Targeted Analysis

Date: Monday, June 1, 2026

Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. PST

Presenter:

Anna Boatman, Ph.D., is a laboratory analytical chemistry technician at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. Anna is involved in setting up the new non-targeted analysis (NTA) laboratory space and instrumentation, generating spectral libraries, preparing and analyzing samples, performing both targeted and non-targeted analyses, and developing informatics tools to make NTA data more accessible.

Additional Authors:

Nathaniel Charest, Ph.D., is a cheminformatician and modeler at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He focuses on cheminformatics research and applying machine and statistical learning to computational chemistry. His work involves integrating non-targeted analysis exposure data with bioactivity datasets to enhance toxicity testing and chemical prioritization.

Troy Ferland, Ph.D., is a research scientist specializing in computational non-targeted analysis (NTA) at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He is responsible for building databases and applications for NTA data and collaborating with other researchers on the environmental impacts of fires at the wildland urban interface (WUI).

Kristin Isaacs, Ph.D., is a principal computational exposure research scientist at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. She leads research on characterizing human health risks from chemicals, focusing on their sources, pathways, and occurrence in the environment. Her expertise includes probabilistic exposure modeling, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling, and network analysis.

John Wambaugh, Ph.D., is a principal computational exposure and toxicokinetic research scientist at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He leads research in in vitro-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE), toxicokinetics, and exposure science, providing expertise in applied statistics, machine learning, and new approach methods (NAMs), while developing mathematical models for chemical safety assessment.

Mark Wilson, Ph.D. MSPH, CIH, is the research director for the Center for Analytical & Exposure Science within UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights in Marietta, Georgia. His work aims to characterize exposures associated with various occupational and environmental scenarios to evaluate health risks. Mark’s methodology is based on the collection of various environmental samples (air, water, food, dust/soil) to determine the presence and quantify the levels of chemical hazards present. These data are integrated into exposure models to estimate exposure levels to chemicals of concern that are evaluated for acceptability by comparison to regulatory or health-based criteria.

Heather Whitehead, Ph.D., is a laboratory non-targeted analytical chemistry research scientist at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights, focusing on developing analysis workflows for investigating environmental contaminants.

Development of an Integrated Data Infrastructure and Review Tool for Non-Targeted Analysis

Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. PST

Presenters:

Heather Whitehead, Ph.D., is a laboratory non-targeted analytical chemistry research scientist at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights, focusing on developing analysis workflows for investigating environmental contaminants.

Additional Authors:

Anna Boatman, Ph.D., is a laboratory analytical chemistry technician at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. Anna is involved in setting up the new non-targeted analysis (NTA) laboratory space and instrumentation, generating spectral libraries, preparing and analyzing samples, performing both targeted and non-targeted analyses, and developing informatics tools to make NTA data more accessible.

Nathaniel Charest, Ph.D., is a cheminformatician and modeler at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He focuses on cheminformatics research and applying machine and statistical learning to computational chemistry. His work involves integrating non-targeted analysis exposure data with bioactivity datasets to enhance toxicity testing and chemical prioritization.

Mark Wilson, Ph.D. MSPH, CIH, is the research director for the Center for Analytical & Exposure Science within UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights in Marietta, Georgia. His work aims to characterize exposures associated with various occupational and environmental scenarios to evaluate health risks. Mark’s methodology is based on the collection of various environmental samples (air, water, food, dust/soil) to determine the presence and quantify the levels of chemical hazards present. These data are integrated into exposure models to estimate exposure levels to chemicals of concern that are evaluated for acceptability by comparison to regulatory or health-based criteria.

Troy Ferland, Ph.D., is a research scientist specializing in computational non-targeted analysis (NTA) at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He is responsible for building databases and applications for NTA data and collaborating with other researchers on the environmental impacts of fires at the wildland urban interface (WUI).

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