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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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Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: MYC disruption of the circadian clock in early non-small cell lung cancer development
Brian 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 Effects
Patrick Murphy - Department of Biomedical Genetics, URMC
Nov 07, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Breaking the Bubble: Community Collaboration to Address Environmental Health Disparities
Katrina Korfmacher, PhD - Associate professor of environmental medicine
Katrina Korfmacher, an associate professor of environmental medicine, will discuss how communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities—including her work with the Rochester Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Korfmacher’s talk, “Bridging Silos: A Community Collaboration to Address Environmental Health Disparities,” takes place on Monday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m., at Brue Coffee, 960 Genesee Street. The Breaking the Bubble community conversation series is sponsored by Residential Life and Housing Services in association with the Rochester Center for Community Leadership.
Oct 28, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
EHSC Seminar Series: Dissecting the epigenetic machinery underlying the memory of chemical exposure
Patrick Allard, PhD - UCLA EpiCenter on Epigenetics, Reproduction, and Society UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics
Oct 17, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: EC-SOD regulation of redox sensitive signaling in pulmonary vascular diseases
Eva 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 Model
Katrina 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 life
Dr. Michael O'Reilly - UR/Dept. of Pediatrics-Neonatology
Oct 10, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Crosstalk between monocytes and endothelial cells in progression of pulmonary artery hypertension
Jinjiang 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 | Atrium
EHSC Seminar Series: A fishy story: Uncovering the molecular interactions between pulmonary lipid metabolism and environmental lung diseases
Kym Gowdy - Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, East Carolina University
Sep 26, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Environmental Medicine Faculty Candidate: Identifying novel gene-environment interactions in Parkinson’s disease
Briana 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 environments
Dan Weller - Postdoc with Sally Thurston and Tanzy Love
Sep 12, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Toxicology PhD Defense: Contribution of Toll-like receptor 4 signaling to the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis: Origins of fibroblast apoptosis resistance
Kelly 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)
Jodi 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 Academies
Dr. 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 exposome
Dr. Douglas Walker - Dept. of Environ Med & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
May 09, 2019 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
Host: Dr. Mark Utell
Consider the Lung as a Sensory Organ
Dr. Xin Sun - University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics
May 07, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: Dr. Michael O'Reilly
Tox 558 Seminar Series: Investigating the influence of developmental origins on bone matrix composition
Emily Quarato - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
May 06, 2019 @ 1:30 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Tox 558 Seminar Series: Effects of Thyroid Hormone Disruptors on Tadpole Innate Immune system during Response to Mycobacterium Marinum Infection
Alexandra Strohm - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
May 06, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Tox 558 Seminar Series: Developmental Neurotoxicity of Ultrafine Air Pollutant Byproducts
Alyssa 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 cells
Joseph 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 responses
Thomas 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 development
Ian Krout - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Apr 22, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)
Consider the Lung as a Sensory Organ
Dr. 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 toxicity
Jakob Gunderson - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Apr 15, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Matthew Rand, PhD)
Indecent Exposure? Investigating the relationship between respiratory viruses and nanomaterials
Tara 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 Dermatitis
Brian 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 laevis
Connor McGuire, MSc - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Apr 08, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (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 Fibrosis
Mackenzie Palmer - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Apr 01, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Patricia Sime, M.D.)
Tox 558 Seminar: Methylmercury & Muscle Development: Investigating Targets Across The Myotendinous Junction of Drosophila
Ashley Peppriell - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Mar 25, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Matthew Rand, M.D.)
Emerging mass spectrometry (MS)-based technologies for multi-scale mapping of the lung
Dr. 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 deficiency
Janine Cubello - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Mar 18, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D.)
To Eat or Not to Eat? How Environmental Health Knowledge and Beliefs Influence Consumption of Contaminated Fish
Dr. 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 | 4-8820
Plasticity of lymphatics in lung disease
Dr. 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 differentiation
Tyler Bell - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Mar 04, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (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 Concentrations
Tim Anderson - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Feb 25, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D.)
Mammalian organogenesis: Making blood before a blood stem cell
Dr. James Palis - UR/Pediatrics
Feb 19, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Tox 558 Seminar: Differential regulation of Ahr expression controls hematopoietic stem cell proliferation
Keegan Vaughan - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Feb 18, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by B. Paige Lawrence, Ph.D.)
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
and Women's Health: A Translational
Epidemiological Approach to Environmental
Reproductive Health
Tamarra 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 | 4-8820
Tox 558 Seminar: Mechanisms of Fibrosis Across Organ Systems
Ashley Rackow - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Feb 11, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (Research supervised by Patricia J. Sime, M.D.)
Lung Megakaryocyte is a Novel Antigen Presenting Cell
Daphne Pariser - Ph.D. student, UR Microbiology & Immunology
Feb 05, 2019 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307
Host: Dr. Michael O’Reilly
Tox 558 Seminar: Investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the transgenerational inheritance of Pb toxicity
Kadijah Abston - Ph.D. student, Toxicology
Feb 04, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: (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 Birth
Keith 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 pregnancy
Ashley Fields
Jan 28, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307, Room 3-6408
Host: Research supervised by Martha Susiarjo, Ph.D.
The mammary gland: a sensitive target to environmental endocrine disruptors
Suzanne 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 | 4-8820
Neonatal and juvenile immune responses to lower respiratory tract gram negative bacteria
Dr. 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 level
Dr. 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 tolerance
Jasmine Reed
Jan 07, 2019 @ 1:00 p.m.
Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)
Host: (Research supervised by Martha Susiarjo, Ph.D.)