URMC / EHSC / Events Events Event Photos EHSC Research Day Epigenetics Workshop EHSC Seminar Series The Environmental Health Science Center seminar series has been temporarily postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. We will resume for the 2020-21 academic year. Please contact Dr. Martha Susiarjo to discuss potential speakers. Please see the University of Rochester’s Medical Center COVID-19 web page for the latest updates, resources for avoiding infection, what to do if you think you may be infected, and visitor restrictions at our hospital. Upcoming20202019201820172016Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: MYC disruption of the circadian clock in early non-small cell lung cancer developmentBrian J. Altman, Ph.D. - Department of Biomedical Genetics University of Rochester Dec 17, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly TNF-α Drives Progressive Obliterative Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Represents a Novel Model of Connective-Tissue Disease Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (CTD-PAH)Benjamin Korman, M.D. - Department of Medicine Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology University of Rochester Nov 19, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)EHSC Seminar Series: Mechanisms of Environmentally Induced and Inherited Epigenetic EffectsPatrick Murphy - Department of Biomedical Genetics, URMC Nov 07, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Breaking the Bubble: Community Collaboration to Address Environmental Health DisparitiesKatrina Korfmacher, PhD - Associate professor of environmental medicine Oct 28, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.EHSC Seminar Series: Dissecting the epigenetic machinery underlying the memory of chemical exposurePatrick Allard, PhD - UCLA EpiCenter on Epigenetics, Reproduction, and Society UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics Oct 17, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: EC-SOD regulation of redox sensitive signaling in pulmonary vascular diseasesEva Nozik Grayck, M.D. - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Research Lab Oct 15, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Environmental Medicine PhD Defense Seminar: Learning and Memory Deficits Following Ambient Ultrafine Particulate Matter Exposure in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse ModelKatrina R. Jew - Toxicology PhD Student Oct 15, 2019 @ 9:30 a.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Host: Research supervised by Alison C. P. Elder, PhD EHSC Seminar Series: Functionally adapting to an oxygen environment at birth: A maladaptive response later in lifeDr. Michael O'Reilly - UR/Dept. of Pediatrics-Neonatology Oct 10, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Crosstalk between monocytes and endothelial cells in progression of pulmonary artery hypertensionJinjiang Pang, B. Med., Ph.D. - Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute University of Rochester Oct 01, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Celebrating the publication of “Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities”Written by Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine Director of the Environmental Health Sciences Center Community Engagement Core Sep 26, 2019 @ 4:00 p.m. Saunders Research Bulding | AtriumEHSC Seminar Series: A fishy story: Uncovering the molecular interactions between pulmonary lipid metabolism and environmental lung diseasesKym Gowdy - Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, East Carolina University Sep 26, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Environmental Medicine Faculty Candidate: Identifying novel gene-environment interactions in Parkinson’s diseaseBriana Rae De Miranda Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases University of Pittsburgh Sep 23, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m. Medical Center | EHSC Conference Room (4-8820)EHSC Seminar Series: Identifying sources of and evidencebased strategies for mitigating pathogen contamination in farm and freshwater environmentsDan Weller - Postdoc with Sally Thurston and Tanzy Love Sep 12, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Toxicology PhD Defense: Contribution of Toll-like receptor 4 signaling to the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis: Origins of fibroblast apoptosis resistanceKelly M. Hanson - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Jul 29, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | Lower Auditorium (1-7619)Host: (Research supervised by Jacob Finkelstein, PhD) Toxicology Retreat: The Effects Of Phthalate Exposure On Female ReproductionJodi Flaws, PhD - University of Illinois, Urbana May 30, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | Lower Adolph Auditorium (1-7619)Effective Science and Risk Communication: Insights from the National AcademiesDr. David Butler - Health and Medicine Division; The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine May 23, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | EHSC Conference Room (4-8820)High-resolution metabolomics: Advanced blood chemistry for sequencing the human exposomeDr. Douglas Walker - Dept. of Environ Med & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai May 09, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Host: Dr. Mark Utell Consider the Lung as a Sensory OrganDr. Xin Sun - University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics May 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: Dr. Michael O'Reilly Tox 558 Seminar Series: Investigating the influence of developmental origins on bone matrix compositionEmily Quarato - Ph.D. student, Toxicology May 06, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Tox 558 Seminar Series: Effects of Thyroid Hormone Disruptors on Tadpole Innate Immune system during Response to Mycobacterium Marinum InfectionAlexandra Strohm - Ph.D. student, Toxicology May 06, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Tox 558 Seminar Series: Developmental Neurotoxicity of Ultrafine Air Pollutant ByproductsAlyssa Merrill - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 29, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Tox 558 Seminar Series: Multiwalled carbon nanotubes induce cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in human lung cellsJoseph Lucas - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 29, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Tox 558 Seminar Series: JUUL flavors produce trace metals and reactive oxygen species, potentially eliciting differential oxidative stress and inflammatory responsesThomas Lamb - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 22, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Tox 558 Seminar Series: Investigating the Role of the Notch target gene Enhancer of Split m? in mediating Methylmercury toxicity in muscle developmentIan Krout - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 22, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Consider the Lung as a Sensory OrganDr. Xin Sun - University of California, San Diego, Professor, Pediatrics and Biological Sciences Apr 16, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Tox 558 Seminar Series: The tissue-specific developmental role of CncC (Nrf2) in response to methylmercury-induced toxicityJakob Gunderson - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 15, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Matthew Rand, PhD) Indecent Exposure? Investigating the relationship between respiratory viruses and nanomaterialsTara Sabo-Attwood, Ph.D. - University of Florida Dept. of Environmental & Global Health Apr 11, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | EHSC Conference Room (4-8820)The Dermal Toxicity and Immunomodulatory Effects of Topically Applied Engineered Nanomaterials in a Model of Allergic Contact DermatitisBrian Palmer - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 10, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m. Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)Host: (Research supervised by Lisa DeLouise Ph.D.) Tox 558 Seminar Series: Exposure to a mixture of suspected thyroid disrupting chemicals alters metamorphic remodeling of the adaptive immune system in Xenopus laevisConnor McGuire, MSc - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 08, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Jacques Robert, Ph.D.) The Airway Epithelium in Chemical-Induced Lung Disease: A Sentient Sentinel or Masked Marauder?Dr. Matthew McGraw - University of Rochester Medical Center, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Apr 02, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Tox 558 Seminar Series: Dysregulated Lactate Metabolism Offers Novel Therapeutic Targets for Radiation-Induced Pulmonary FibrosisMackenzie Palmer - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Apr 01, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Patricia Sime, M.D.) Tox 558 Seminar: Methylmercury & Muscle Development: Investigating Targets Across The Myotendinous Junction of DrosophilaAshley Peppriell - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Mar 25, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Matthew Rand, M.D.) Emerging mass spectrometry (MS)-based technologies for multi-scale mapping of the lungDr. Charles Ansong - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Senior Research Scientist, Integrative Omics group Biological Division Mar 19, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Ravi Misra From the brain to the cell… Lead exposure under iron deficiencyJanine Cubello - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Mar 18, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D.) To Eat or Not to Eat? How Environmental Health Knowledge and Beliefs Influence Consumption of Contaminated FishDr. Kathleen Gray - Assoc. Dir. for Outreach and Public Service Clinical Assistant Professor UNC Institute for the Environment Mar 07, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Plasticity of lymphatics in lung diseaseDr. Donald McDonald - University of California, San Francisco, Professor Cardiovascular Research Institute, Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Department of Anatomy Mar 05, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Arshad Rahman Tox 558 Seminar: Targeting the proton sensing GPCR OGR1 to inhibit myofibroblast differentiationTyler Bell - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Mar 04, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Robert Mathew Kottmann MD, MS-CTR and Patricia J. Sime MD) Tox 558 Seminar Series: Paraquat Inhalation, a Translational Route of Exposure, Results in Sex-specific Alterations in Locomotor Behavior and Midbrain Tyrosine Hydroxylase ConcentrationsTim Anderson - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Feb 25, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.) Mammalian organogenesis: Making blood before a blood stem cellDr. James Palis - UR/Pediatrics Feb 19, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Tox 558 Seminar: Differential regulation of Ahr expression controls hematopoietic stem cell proliferationKeegan Vaughan - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Feb 18, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D.) Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Women's Health: A Translational Epidemiological Approach to Environmental Reproductive HealthTamarra James-Todd, Ph.D., MPH - Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor of Environmental Reproductive & Perinatal Epidemiology Feb 14, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Tox 558 Seminar: Mechanisms of Fibrosis Across Organ SystemsAshley Rackow - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Feb 11, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Patricia J. Sime, M.D.) Lung Megakaryocyte is a Novel Antigen Presenting CellDaphne Pariser - Ph.D. student, UR Microbiology & Immunology Feb 05, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Tox 558 Seminar: Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the transgenerational inheritance of Pb toxicityKadijah Abston - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Feb 04, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: (Research supervised by Xin Li, Ph.D.) PhD Thesis Defense: Neurotoxicological Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Hyperoxia and Ultrafine Ambient Particulate Matter: Concurrent Risk Factors of Premature BirthKeith Morris-Schaffer - Ph.D. student, Toxicology Feb 04, 2019 @ 10:00 a.m. Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)Host: (Research supervised by Deborah Cory-Slechta Ph.D.) Tox 558 Seminar: Vitamin B6 deficiency negatively influences glucose tolerance during pregnancyAshley Fields Jan 28, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408Host: Research supervised by Martha Susiarjo, Ph.D. The mammary gland: a sensitive target to environmental endocrine disruptorsSuzanne E. Fenton, Ph.D. - National Inst. of Environmental Health Sciences Division of the National Toxicology Program Jan 24, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Neonatal and juvenile immune responses to lower respiratory tract gram negative bacteriaDr. Sharon Ann McGrath-Morrow - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Program Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship program, Professor of Pediatrics Jan 15, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Tox 558 Seminar Series: Effects of diesel exhaust particles on the composition and integrity of the lung epithelial barrier Timothy Smyth Jan 14, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Host: (Research supervised by Steve Georas, M.D.) 11th Annual Lung Research and Trainee Day: Building and repairing the lung at single cell levelDr. Jeffrey Whitsett - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Co-Director, Perinatal Institute, Chief, Section of Neonatology, Perinatal and Pulmonary Biology Jan 11, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (Rm. 3-6408)Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly Tox 558 Seminar Series: Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and pregnancy outcomes: mechanisms related to maternal-fetal immune toleranceJasmine Reed Jan 07, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Host: (Research supervised by Martha Susiarjo, Ph.D.)