Seminars & Events
EnLight Seminar Series: "Heavy Metals in Food — Understanding Exposure and Potential Impacts in Children"
Katarzyna Kordas, PhD - Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Buffalo
Highlighted topic: Lead, arsenic, cadmium, baby food, exposure assessment, measurement uncertainty
Sep 24, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "Exposures at Either End: Manufacturing and Decommissioning in the Solar Life Cycle"
Darren Lipomi, PhD - Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chair of Department of Chemical and Sustainability Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center
Highlighted topic: Photovoltaics, critical materials, electronic waste, dynamic covalent chemistry
Oct 15, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "Using Mass Spectrometry and Spatial Transcriptomics to Localize Exogenous Element Accumulation in Smokers and Veterans with DRRD"
Jessica Blackburn, PhD - Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Highlighted topic: Cigarette smoke and deployment-related respiratory disease
Oct 22, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: “Easier Said than Done: Experience with Qualification of Complex In Vitro Models and Microphysiological Systems as Alternatives to Animal Testing in Toxicology Studies”
Ivan Rusyn, MD., PhD - Professor, Department of Veterinary & Pharmacology, Texas A&M University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Oct 29, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: “TBD”
Benjamin Miller, PhD - Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Material Sciences, Optics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Highlighted topic: TBD
Nov 19, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: “TBD”
Todd Jusko, PhD - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Highlighted topic: TBD
Dec 03, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "TBD"
Phoebe Stapleton, PhD., ATC - Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Division Director for Environmental and Population Health, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Dec 17, 2026 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Rm (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "TBD"
Brian Jackson, PhD - Research Professor, Director of Trace Element Analysis Core, Director of Biomedical National Elemental Imaging Resource, Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College
Highlighted topic: TBD
Jan 28, 2027 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "TBD"
Robert Tighe, MD - Associate Professor of Medicine and in the Division of Environmental Natural Sciences, Department of Medicine at Duke University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Feb 25, 2027 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
EnLight Seminar Series: "TBD"
Jason Richardson, PhD - Dianne Isakson Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology, Isakson Center for Neurological Disease Research at University of Georgia
Highlighted topic: TBD
Mar 25, 2027 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)