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Seminars & Events

EnLight Seminar Series: Vital Implications of Glymphatic Clearance in Neurotrauma and Environmental Influences

Rashad Hussain, PhD - Research Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

Jan 25, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Neurotoxicology and Air Pollution

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:Gabriela_Cuadra@URMC.Rochester.edu">Gabriela Cuadra</a> or <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: Mechanisms and health effects of environmental mitochondrial toxicants

Joel Meyer, PhD - Associate Professor, Duke University

Feb 01, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Metals and Mitochondria

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:Gabriela_Cuadra@URMC.Rochester.edu">Gabriela Cuadra</a> or <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: Redox modulation of ferroptosis induced mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease-like phenotype

John Onukwufor, PhD - Research Associate Professor, University of Rochester

Feb 08, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted Topic: Metals and Mitochondria

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:Gabriela_Cuadra@URMC.Rochester.edu">Gabriela Cuadra</a> or <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

Taking Aims Seminar

Jason Wu, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Nephrology (SMD)

Feb 22, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Please contact Rebecca_Ruston@urmc.rochester.edu for the zoom link.

Medical Center | 4-8820

EnLight Seminar Series: "Epidemiologically informed toxicology to understand environmental impacts on aggressive breast cancers and cancer disparities"

Justin Colacino, PhD, MA, MPH - Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Feb 29, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Stem Cells and Toxicology

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:Gabriela_Cuadra@URMC.Rochester.edu">Gabriela Cuadra</a> or <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

Taking Aims Seminar

Matt McCall, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Mar 07, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Please contact Rebecca_Ruston@urmc.rochester.edu for the zoom link.

Medical Center | 4-8820

EnLight Seminar Series: Exploring the Gaps, improving outcomes for children with asthma in Rochester NY

Jessica Stern, M.D. - Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Univ. Rochester

Mar 28, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Healthy Housing

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: "Intersection of Olfaction and Nasal Mucosal Immune Responses"

Regina Rowe, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Rochester

Apr 11, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Reproductive and endocrinology

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: "Controlled human exposures to dissect mechanisms of climate-related airway threats"

Chris Carlsten, M.D., MPH - Professor, Medicine, Univ. of British Columbia

Apr 18, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Inhalation toxicity

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

Housing, Health and Environmental Justice Research Workshop

Amanda L. Reddy, MS - Executive Director, National Center for the Healthy Housing

May 01, 2024 @ 8:30 a.m.

Housing, Health and Environmental Justice Research Workshop - Wednesday, May 1st, 2024, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM - Helen Wood Hall, School of Nursing Auditorium

The University of Rochester Institute for Human Health and the Environment invites you to join a Research Workshop on Housing, Health and Environmental Justice in the Rochester Region to learn how home-based environmental exposures affect health equity. This workshop will:

Build researchers’ and community partners’ understanding of the connections between housing environments and health
Identify unique opportunities for healthy homes research in the Rochester region
Foster new projects to inform solutions

Registration is now open!
Deadline: April 1^st
Register Here

For questions or enquiries, please contact us at ihhe@urmc.rochester.edu

Event Flyer
Event Itinerary

Keynote Speaker

Amanda L. Reddy, M.S.
Executive Director, National Center for Healthy Housing

Local Overview Presenter

Melissa Berrien
Director of Resident Services
Rochester Housing Authority

Healthy Housing Research Panelists

Michelle Del Rio, PHD
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Indiana University, Bloomington

Kevin Kennedy, MPH, CIEC
Environmental Health Scientist
Healthy Indoors Consulting

Robin Dodson, ScD
Associate Director of Research Operations
Chemical Exposure & Risk Assessment
Silent Spring Institute

Helen Wood Hall | School of Nursing Auditorium

Host: Department of Environmental Medicine Institute for Human Health and the Environment

EnLight Seminar Series: "From Oocyte-Producing Testes to Glowing Penis: New Insights into Mammalian Sex Differentiation"

Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao, PhD - Senior Principal Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

May 02, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Mammalian reproductive differentiation

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: "Androgen Actions in Female Reproductive Endocrinology”

Olga Astapova, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Endocrinology, University of Rochester

May 16, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Inhaled agents and Inflammation

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact <a href="mailto:marissa_terry@urmc.rochester.edu">Marissa Sobolewski Terry</a>

EnLight Seminar Series: “Determinants of Sex-Specific Susceptibility and Resilience in the Developing Lung”

Krithika Lingappan MD MS PhD - Neonatologist, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Sep 19, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Highlighted topic: Neonatal lung injury, sex differences, and SRY gene

Medical Center | 4-8820