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Environmental Lectures in Global Health and Toxicology (EnLIGHT) Seminar Series
The Environmental Lectures in Global Health and Toxicology seminar series will resume in person seminar. This seminar series features research that encompasses multidisciplinary and cutting-edge approaches to understand how environmental agents (including chemical, nutritional, social, and economic factors) influence health and disease, and contribute to health inequities at local, regional, and global levels. These seminars are supported by our National Institute of Environmental Health Science Center (P30 ES001247), the Department of Environmental Medicine, the Toxicology Training Grant (ES007026), and the Institute for Human Health and the Environment.
Please join us in the Environmental Health Science Center Conference Room 4-8820. There will still be an option to join virtually through Zoom.
If you would like to be added to the seminar list serve or to discuss potential speakers, please contact Dr. Marissa Sobolewski.
The University of Rochester is committed to providing inclusive experiences and equal access to programs, services, and meetings. If you anticipate needing any type of communication access (ASL interpreting or real-time captioning), please contact Rebecca Ruston. In all situations, a good faith effort (up until the time of the meeting) will be made to provide accommodations.
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Initiation of Rheumatoid
Arthritis Associated Interstitial
Lung Disease
Dr. Homaira Rahimi - University of Rochester, Asst. Professor, Pediatric Rheumatology
Dec 18, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)
Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly
Science Kit Workshop: Developing environmental health literacy: Interactive, problem-based science kits for diverse audiences
Dina G. Markowitz, Ph.D. & Katrina Korfmacher, Ph.D. - Life Sciences Learning Center & Community Outreach & Engagement Core
Dec 06, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Targeting Nonsense Mutations in Cystic Fibrosis with Engineered tRNAs
Dr. John Lueck - Pharmacology & Physiology
Dec 04, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307
Host: Dr. Tom Mariani, sponsored by the Dept of Pediatrics and the Lung Biology & Disease Program
Inhalation Injuries and Epithelial Progenitor Cell Function
Dr. Matthew D. McGraw - Pediatrics, URMC
Nov 15, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
NIH-FDA TCORS Center for Research on Flavored Tobacco in Western New York - Irfan Rahman
; Flavoring Toxicology and Lung Effects – Thivanka Muthumalage
Dr. Irfan Rahman & Thivanka Muthumalage - University of Rochester Medical Center, Professor, Environmental Medicine, Dentistry, Medicine, Public Health Sciences
Nov 06, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)
Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly
Writing the Redox Code: Thioredoxin Signaling in Development and Disease
Dr. Peter Vitiello - Environmental Influences on Health & Disease Group Sanford Research Dept. of Pediatrics/University of South Dakota/Sanford
Nov 01, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling early human lung development
Dr. Denise Al Alam - Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Investigator, Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Assistant Professor of Research Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Oct 16, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)
Host: Dr. Augusto Litonjua
Prenatal and Preconception Exposure to Cadmium – Changes to the Offspring’s Immune System
Dr. John B. Barnett - Chair/Professor, WVU Cancer Institute/School of Medicine, West Virginia University
Oct 11, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Host: Dr. Paige Lawrence
Acrolein, the Necessary Toxicant
Dr. George D. Leikauf - Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh
Oct 02, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)
Host: Dr. Alison Elder
Arsenic Disrupts Cardiac EMT
Dr. Todd Camenisch - Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. John Fisher College
Sep 13, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Neuro-inflammatory Consequences of Inhaled Pollutants: Role of Circulating Factors
Dr. Matthew Campen - University of New Mexico
May 31, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Host: Irfan Rahman
Annual Toxicology Retreat
Toxicology PhD Program
May 24, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | Flaum Atrium, Adolph Auditorium
Epigenetic modulation of CD4+ T cell differentiation by trichloroethylene: implications for autoimmune disease
Dr. Sarah Blossom - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
May 10, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Host: Paige Lawrence
The role of myoblast fusion as a methylmercury-sensitive target in neuromuscular development
Ashley Peppriell - PhD Candidate
Apr 30, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: Matthew Rand, Ph.D.
Exposure to a mixture of 23 endocrine disrupting chemicals used in unconventional gas and oil extraction impairs anti-viral immune response in Xenopus laevis tadpoles
Connor McGuire - PhD Candidate
Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
MicroRNAs as a Novel Therapy of Pulmonary Fibrosis
Mackenzie Palmer - PhD Candidate
Apr 23, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Thesis Defense Seminar: Aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation during development reduces dendritic cell function later in life
Jessica L. Meyers - PhD candidate, Toxicology
Apr 19, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Auditorium, 1-7619
Host: B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D.
The combinatorial impact of Pb exposure in an iron-deficient model
Janine Cubello - PhD Candidate
Apr 16, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
The Cytoprotective Role of Nuclear Factor-erythroid 2-related Factor 2 (Nrf2) in Methylmercury Toxicity
Jakob Gunderson - PhD Candidate
Apr 16, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Genomic imprinting: regulation and function in response to the developmental environment
Mike Cowley, Ph.D. - North Carolina State University, Toxicology & Environmental Health Sciences
Apr 12, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307
Host: Martha Susiarjo
Genomic imprinting: regulation and function in response to the developmental environment
Mike Cowley - North Carolina State University,
Toxicology & Environmental Health Sciences
Apr 12, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Host: Martha Susiarjo
Two Different Feed-Forward Loops That Contribute to Pulmonary Fibrosis Through Activation of Latent TGFβ
Tyler Bell - PhD Candidate
Apr 09, 2018 @ 12:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Neonatal Exposure to Concentrated Ultrafine Particulate Matter Produces Alterations in Serum Testosterone and Social Behavior
Tim Anderson - PhD Candidate
Apr 09, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Vitamin B6 deficiency during pregnancy alters both maternal and offspring metabolism
Ashley Fields - PhD Candidate
Apr 02, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
MRTF-A AND LDHA: Targets for Multi-Organ Fibrosis
Ashley Rackow - PhD Candidate
Mar 26, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Molecular Imaging of Fibrosis
Sydney Montesi, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series
Mar 20, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: R. Matthew Kottman, MD MS-CTR, Patricia Sime, MD
Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell proliferation by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor
Keegan Vaughan - PhD Candidate
Mar 19, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Early life hyperoxic exposure, lung innate immune responses and development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and asthma
Dr. Antonia Popova - University of Michigan
Mar 06, 2018 @ 10:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: Dr. Gloria Pryhuber
Impact of pollution on health across the lifespan in Mongolia
David Warburton, OBE, DSc, MD, MMM, FRCP, FRCS, FRCPCH
CHLA
- Director, Developmental Biology, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Therapeutics program
, Professor of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Mar 06, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: Patricia Sime, MD
Transgenerational Alteration of Methylation Profiles following Developmental Lead Exposure and Prenatal Stress
Kadijah Abston - PhD Candidate
Mar 05, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Effects of diesel exhaust particles on the composition and integrity of the lung epithelial barrier
Tim Smyth - PhD Candidate
Feb 26, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Immunomodulation via Ultraviolet Radiation
Sarah Phelan - PhD Candidate
Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
The Effect of Disease State and Environmental Insults on Nanoparticle Biodistribution
Candace Wong - PhD Candidate
Feb 12, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Toxicology Thesis Defense: Consequences of Developmental Ethanol Exposure on Synaptic Plasticity, Microglial Phenotype, and Dendritic Spine Dynamics
Elissa L. Wong - PhD Candidate
Feb 07, 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Case Method Room (Room 1-9576)
Host: Ania Majewska, Ph.D.
The Role of Vitamin D in Airway Disease and Asthma Susceptibility
Augusto Litonjua, MD, MPH - Interim Professor - Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, URMC
Feb 06, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Host: Tom Mariani, PhD
Investigating effects of EDC exposure on genomic imprinting of Ido1 and pregnancy maintenance
Jasmine Reed - PhD Candidate
Feb 05, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Neonatal Hyperoxia Followed by Concentrated Ambient Ultrafine Particle Exposure Leads to Learning Deficits in C57B1/6J Mice
Keith Morris-Schaffer - PhD Candidate
Jan 29, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Novel Designs for Human Studies in
Environmental Health Research:
Relevance to Endocrine Disruptors
Russ Hauser, Ph.D. - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jan 25, 2018 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: Todd Jusko
Age Dependent Effects of Ultrafine Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Learning and Memory in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model
Katrina Jew - PhD Candidate
Jan 22, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
12th Annual Lung Research & Trainee Day
Presented by the Lung Biology and Disease Program
Jan 22, 2018 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center | Atrium/Class of '62 Auditorium
Modeling Toll-like Receptor 4-Mediated Apoptosis Resistance in Lung Fibroblasts to Investigate Pulmonary Fibrosis Pathogenesis
Kelly Hansen - PhD Candidate
Jan 08, 2018 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: Jacob Finkelstein, PhD