Seminars & Events
EnLight Seminar Series: "Influence of Sex and Cytokines on Microglia and their Modulation of Amyloid Pathology"
Kerry O'Banion, MD, PhD - Professor of Neuroscience, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: Alzheimer’s disease, neuroinflammation, interleukins, mouse models
Dec 04, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoSpecial Seminar: "How stethoscopes can also heal the lungs of the Earth"
Kinari Webb, MD - Founder, Health in Harmony
Highlighted topic: radical listening approach, planetary health, community health
Nov 19, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium (G-9425)
Register hereHost: The Institute for Human Health and the Environment and the Department of Comparative Medicine
EnLight Seminar Series: "Lessons from The White House: Redefining the Art (and Arc) of Community Environmental Health and Systems Resilience"
Jalonne White-Newsome - Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Highlighted topic: TBA
Nov 06, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | Adolph (Lower) Auditorium (1-7619)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Katrina Korfmacher, PhD
EnLight Seminar Series: "Environmental Mercury Toxicity: Lessons from history, hair, microbes and flies"
Matthew Rand, PhD - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: Mercury and muscle toxicity, gut microbiome, genetic susceptibility and resistance
Oct 30, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: “The Human Exposome and Future Health”
Dean Jones, PhD - Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine
Highlighted topic: TBA
Oct 23, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Souvarish Sarkar, PhD
EnLiGHT Seminar Series: "Airborne Allergen Risks Across Environments: Cannabis Industry Hazards and Indoor Air Quality Challenges"
Tess Eidem, PhD - Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Highlighted topic: TBA
Oct 16, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | EHSC Conference Room (4.8820)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Daniel Croft, MD
EnLight Seminar Series: “The ROC HOME Study: Implications for participants, policies, and programs”
Katrina Korfmacher, PhD - Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, Center for Community Health and Prevention, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: lead exposure and children’s health
Sep 25, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Epidemiological Transitions in Enteric Disease control: impact of societal development on enteric pathogen transmission at the One Health interface in the PATHOME"
Kelly Baker, PhD - Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Buffalo
Highlighted topic: One Health, infectious disease, enteric infections, child health, global development, eco-epidemiology methods
Sep 11, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
School of Medicine and Dentistry | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Elaine Hill, PhD
Characterizing the Effects of Perfluorohexanoic (PFHxA) Exposure on the Mouse Brain during Two Critical Windows: Development and Pregnancy - Thesis Defense
Elizabeth Plunk, MS - PhD Candidate
email Elizabeth_Plunk@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link
Jun 10, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
Host: Advisor: Ania Majewska
Toxicology Training Program Annual Retreat
Keynote Address: “Epigenomic Reprogramming Induced by Early Life Environmental Exposures”
May 29, 2025
11:00am - 12:00pm, SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
Cheryl Walker, PhD
Alkek Presidential Chair in Environmental Health; Director, Center for Precision Environmental Health; Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
May 29, 2025 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center | SMD Large Aud. (2-6424)
Host: Department of Environmental Medicine
EnLight Seminar Series: "Biomonitoring of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals in New York"
Highlighted topic: PFAS, pesticides, and heavy metals
Speakers:
Kurunthachalam Kannan, PhD
Deputy Director of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Wadsworth Center
Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany
Anne Pysnik, MPH
Biomonitoring NY Project Coordinator
NYSDOH, Center for Environmental Health
May 08, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services Clinic
EnLight Seminar Series: “Leveraging the amphibian Xenopus to assess the risks of microplastics on immune health.”
Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: exposure to microplastics, immune homeostasis, chronic inflammation, antimicrobial immunity
Apr 17, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series “Emerging endocrine disruptors: learning from and looking beyond the usual suspects”
Emily Barrett, PhD - Professor, Rutgers University School of Public Health
Highlighted topic: Endocrine disruptors, maternal child health, food contaminants
Apr 10, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the IHHE and the Center for Community Health & Prevention: A Green Heart for Healthy Communities
Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville
Highlighted topic: Climate and health, health equity, air quality, extreme heat
Mar 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Helen Wood Hall | 1W-304 School of Nursing Auditorium
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Follow Your Passion, Not the Rules: My Atypical 'Cell to Society' Approach to Studying Wildfire Smoke Health Effects"
Luke Montrose, PhD - Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Mar 06, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Examining the in vivo effects of microplastics: Gut and Systemic Response"
Eliseo F. Castillo, PhD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Highlighted topic: Gut microbiota, intestinal epithelium, the mucosal immune system
Feb 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: “Brain Organoids + AI = Organoid Intelligence (OI)”
Thomas Hartung, MD PhD - Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Highlighted topic: Organoid culture, mini-brains, artificial intelligence
Jan 30, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Complete Electrocatalytic Aqueous Defluorination of PFAS with Nonprecious Materials"
Astrid M. Müller, PhD - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: PFAS defluorination, Perfluorooctane sulfonate, Perfluorooctanoic acid, GenX, Aqueous electrocatalysis
Jan 23, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado