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Seminars & Events

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EHSC Seminar Series: Understanding social and environmental risk factors for psychosis

David Dodell-Feder, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic:  Neurotoxicology and Air Pollution
Seminar narrative: Outcomes for individuals with a psychotic-spectrum disorder (PSD) are often poor, posing a profound burden to affected individuals and society. For that reason, increasing work has focused on better understanding potentially modifiable aspects of the environment that confer risk for PSDs. This research has uncovered a suite of social and physical/chemical factors related to the psychosis phenotype, though many open questions remain. In this talk, I will discuss several recently completed and ongoing studies in my lab to better understand some of these environmental risk factors and highlight areas for future research.

 Dec 15, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Air pollution and autism: novel methods to explore live birth bias

Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD - Professor, Harvard University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Neurotoxicology
Seminar Narrative: Accumulating evidence suggests an association between perinatal air pollution exposure and autism spectrum disorders in offspring. Nonetheless, important questions remain and important epidemiologic methods issues complicate the assessment of this question. I will show some of our own work demonstrating some of these issues, and describe a novel method to assess some of the key aspects of bias that can arise.

 Dec 08, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Lake sturgeon as bioindicators of Genesee River health

Jeffrey Wyatt, DVM, MPH - Professor, University of Rochester

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic:  Environmental Health and Chemical Mixtures

 Nov 17, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Tales from the lung: modeling immune cell dynamics during acute and chronic stress

Alessandro Venosa, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Utah

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Air Pollution and Pulmonary Toxicity

 Oct 27, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Translational impact of neurotoxicant-neuromelanin interactions critical to catecholaminergic neurotoxicity

Jason Cannon, PhD - Associate Professor, Purdue University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment Interaction and Neurotoxicology

 Sep 22, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Endocrine disruptors, green chemistry, and the mammary gland

Laura Vandenberg, PhD - Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Reproductive Toxicology

 Sep 15, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Toxicology Retreat Keynote Seminar

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D. - former NIEHS and NTP Director

 May 26, 2022 @ 11:15 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium

Hybrid Zoom

EHSC Seminar Series: Ambient air pollution and pediatric brain development: insights from the ABCD study

Megan Herting, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Air Pollution and Neurotoxicity

 May 19, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: “Forever Chemicals” in Your Body: Bioaccumulation of Per-/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)

Carrie McDonough, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution

 Apr 14, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Host: EHSC and Environmental and Earth Science Joint Seminar

EHSC Seminar Series: Translational research validating the emerging field of obesogens

Michele A La Merrill, PhD MPH she/her/hers - Associate Professor
Chancellor’s Fellow, Department of Environmental Toxicology
Genome-, Environmental Health-, Comprehensive Cancer-, and Perinatal Origins of Disparities- Centers
University of California at Davis

 Mar 03, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: TBA

Folami Ideraabdullah - University of North Carolina

 Feb 24, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: The Truth Fairy Project: Assessing legacy pollution in communities near a lead-acid battery smelter

Jill Johnston, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Metals and Community Outreach

 Feb 17, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

TOX 558 Student Series: Pregnancy is a critical window for endocrine disrupting chemical effects on maternal endocrine and metabolic health

Alyssa Merrill - PhD Candidate, Cory-Slechta/Sobolewski Labs

 Feb 07, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

EHSC Seminar Series: When T cells get stressed: the role of the stress-activated transcription factor Nrf2 in host defense and allergy

Cheryl Rockwell, PhD - Michigan State University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Immunotoxicology

 Feb 03, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

TOX 558 Student Series: Investigating the impact of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid on the pulmonary epithelial barrier

Joseph Lucas - PhD Candidate, I. Rahman Lab

 Jan 31, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

TOX 558 Student Series: Acute exposure to flavored e-cigarettes results in lung inflammation in C57BL/6J mice

Thomas Lamb, Jr. - PhD Candidate, I. Rahman Lab

 Jan 24, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

EHSC Seminar Series: Effects of electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) aerosols on the developing mouse lung

Alexandra Noel, PhD - Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

CIFT/CRofT and EHSC joint seminar: TBA

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity

 Jan 20, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

TOX 558 Student Series: Biotransformation of methylmercury modulates its toxicokinetics in a tissue-specific and life-stage dependent manner

Ian Krout - PhD Candidate, Rand Lab

 Jan 10, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.

EHSC Seminar Series: Mano a mano: Addressing tobacco-related disparities among Latinos via community-led research and technology solutions

Francisco Cartujano-Barrera, M.D. - Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and Smoking Cessation

 Jan 06, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry