Abstract
The first article in this second issue of volume 36 is the manuscript titled “Chronic Microcystin Exposure Induces Hepatocyte Proliferation with Increased Expression of Mitotic and Cyclin-associated Genes in P53-deficient Mice,” by Dr. Shawn P. Clark of Purdue University. This is the written article of Dr. Clark’s award-winning oral presentation made at the concurrent meetings of the ACVP and the ASVCP, in Tucson, AZ, in December 2006, for which he received complementary registration at the 26th Annual Symposium of the STP at Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, in June 2007. I would like to add my congratulations, alongside those of the judges of the competition, to Dr. Clark for a truly excellent article, in addition to winning the first annual STP Student Speaker Award competition, and hope that he accepts my personal apologies for failing to get his article into issue 1 of volume 36 despite the eloquent introduction by Eric Schultz that appears in that issue. I hope to be able to personally congratulate Dr. Clark at the 27th Annual Symposium at San Francisco and trust that he looks favorably on our journal for his next article.