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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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EHSC Seminar Series: Advances and set backs in understanding the health effects of e-cigarettes EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity
Laura Crotty Alexander, MD - Associate Professor, Medicine, Univ. California San Diego
CIFT/CRofT and EHSC joint seminar: Advances and set backs in understanding the health effects of e-cigarettes
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity
Dec 09, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
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Rebecca Ruston or
Marissa Sobolewski TerrySpecial Public Health Grand Rounds: Historical Trauma and the Health Disparities that Perpetuate in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities
EHSC Seminar Series: Extracellular Vesicles in Environmental Health and Disease
Quan Lu, PhD - Professor, Harvard University
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment interaction, neurotoxicology and asthma
Nov 18, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
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Rebecca Ruston or
Marissa Sobolewski TerryPublic Health Grand Rounds - Gen X and Emerging Perfluorinated Exposures in the Cape Fear River Basin
Jane Hoppin, ScD - Deputy Director, Center for Human Health and the Environment; Professor, Department of Biological Sciences; University Faculty Scholar, NC State
Jane Hoppin, ScD, deputy director, Center for Human Health and the Environment; professor, Department of Biological Sciences; University Faculty Scholar, North Carolina State University, will present "Responding to Community Concerns about Chemical Exposure: The GenX Exposure Study." This presentation will highlight the development and implementation of the GenX Exposure Study, a community based study designed to answer community questions about GenX and other PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances) chemicals discovered in drinking water in Wilmington, NC in 2017.
GenX was one of many PFAS produced by a chemical manufacturing facility on the Cape Fear River upriver of the water intake for Wilmington. Dr. Hoppin will describe the community engagement activities, the discovery of novel fluoroethers in the blood of study participants, report back efforts, and next steps for the project.
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Nov 05, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
EHSC Seminar Series: Parkinson's Disease: A Tale of Two Cities—Genome and Exposome
(NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Souvarish Sarkar, PhD - Researcher, Harvard Medical School
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment interaction and neurotoxicology
Nov 04, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m.
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Rebecca Ruston or
Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: Early life exposure to vaping aerosols lead to later life health outcomes: Translation from a mouse model
Inhalation toxicological assessment of tobacco and menthol flavored e-cigarettes
Thivanka Muthumalage, PhD - Dr. Irfan Rahman’s Laboratory, University of Rochester
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes
Oct 07, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
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Laura Bean or
Marissa Sobolewski TerryHigh Resolution Analysis of Inhaled Exogenous vs Bio-generated Endogenous Nanoparticles in Olfactory Bulbs of Humans with Neurodegeneration: Significance of Iron and Phosphate
Uschi Graham, PhD - University of Kentucky
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution
Sep 30, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
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Laura Bean or
Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: The Coupling of Air Quality and Climate Change
Lee Murray, PhD - Earth & Environmental Sciences - University of Rochester, Earth & Environmental Sciences - University of Rochester
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution
Sep 16, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
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Laura Bean or
Marissa Sobolewski TerryOccupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Too Hot to Work: Climate Change and Outdoor Workers’ Health
Brenda Ekwurzel, PhD - Director of Climate Science and Senior Climate Scientist, Director of Climate Science and Senior Climate Scientist - Union of Concerned Scientists
Dr. Ekwurzel is Director of Climate Science and Senior Climate Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Zoom https://rochester.zoom.us/j/95321679104
Sep 09, 2021 @ 8:00 a.m.
Zoom linkEHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf - University of Kentucky
Jun 10, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom Invitation
The 12th Annual Lung Research & Trainee day
Guest Speaker Dr. Anne Hilgendorff from Munich, Germany
Jun 07, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom
Toxicology Training Program Retreat: Microglia and the Lung-Brain Axis in Amyloid Pathology: Implications for Alzheimer’s Disease
Keynote speaker, Dr. Michelle Block - Indiana University School of Medicine
May 27, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
ZoomEHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Caleb Finch - University of Southern California
May 06, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom Invitation
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Tom O’Connor - University of Rochester
Apr 22, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom Invitation
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Devon Payne-Sturges - University of Maryland
Apr 08, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom Invitation
EHSC Seminar Series: Old Order Mennonite lifestyle and protective factors against early childhood allergic disease
Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo - University of Rochester
Mar 11, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
EHSC Seminar Series: Emerging Toxicology of Flavorings with a focus on menthol/mint on activation of Chemosensory Receptors and Respiratory Irritation Responses (Brain-Lung connection)
Sven Jordt - Duke University
Mar 01, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
Host: Joint Seminar with Center for Flavorings Toxicology
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Emily Barrett - Rutgers University
Feb 11, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Katarzyna Kordas - University of Buffalo
Jan 28, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom Invitation