URMC / Environmental Medicine / Seminars and Events Seminars & Events Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds Upcoming20242023202220212020The Department of Environmental Medicine and NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center Presents Faculty Candidate: Mechanisms of phthalate toxicity during fetal testis development Daniel Spade, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Brown University Dec 11, 2017 @ 10:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Integrating Epidemiology and Toxicity Testing with a Whole Mixture Strategy for Risk Assessment: A Case StudyDr. Chris Gennings - Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Nov 30, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Specialized Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators in Inflammatory Lung Disease. New opportunities for therapiesPatricia Sime, M.D. - Chief, Department of Medicine, URMC Nov 21, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Host: Richard Phipps, Ph.D. PhD Defense: Myogenic Targets of Methylmercury Toxicity During DevelopmentLisa M. Prince - PhD Candidate Nov 17, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-207 (2-6408)Early Life Exposures and Child Neurobehaivor in the New Bedford CohortDr. Susan Korrick - Dept. of Environmental Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Nov 09, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Host: Dr. Sally Thurston New insights into Protective Innate Immunity in the LungBurton Dickey, MD - Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Oct 17, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Host: Steve Georas, MD Assessing disease in war fighters exposed to toxic burn pit smokeThomas Thatcher & Collynn Woeller - University of Rochester Medical Center Oct 03, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | 3-6408 (K-307)Host: Richard Phipps, PhD HORMESIS: Adaptive Responses in Biology and MedicineEdward Calabrese, Ph.D. - U. Massachusetts/Amherst Public Health/Health Sciences Sep 01, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Human Lung Fibroblasts Produce and Respond to Pro-Resolving and Anti-Fibrotic ProstaglandinsPhD Defense: Shannon Lacy - PhD Candidate Jun 28, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Monitoring personal exposure to nanomaterials: Field application of real-time particle counters (>4.5 nm) utilizing innovative and versatile water-based CPC technologyJ. E. Lockey, M.D. - U. Cincinnati Dept. of Environmental Health Jun 01, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Temporal variability of environmental chemical urinary biomarkers – how predictive is a single sample?Susan Teitelbaum, Ph.D. - Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai May 18, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Exploring regulatory crosstalk between AHR and HIF-1-alpha in hematopoiesisKeegan Vaughan - PhD Candidate May 01, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Metabolism and Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Potential Role for TG2Ashley Rackow - PhD Candidate May 01, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)TBDAshley Fields - PhD Candidate Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)TBDKadijah Abston - PhD Candidate Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Lung Biology Pilot Project AwardeesDrs. Sherry Spinelli, Kelley Madden and Timothy Chapman Apr 18, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Diesel Exhaust Particles Disrupt Epithelial Barrier Function through the Tight Junction Protein TricellulinTim Smyth - PhD Candidate Apr 17, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Early Life Exposure to Radical Containing Particulate Matter Suppresses Host Response to InfluenzaStephania Ann Cormier, Ph.D. - University of Tennessee Health Science Center Dept. of Pediatrics Apr 13, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity from Maternal Exposure to Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting ChemicalsJasmine Reed - PhD Candidate Apr 10, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Generating a molecular atlas of lung development in: An overview of the multidisciplinary LungMAP programDr. Ravi Misra - Dept. of Pediatrics/Neonatology, University of Rochester Apr 04, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)The Role of Inflammation on Inhaled Nanoparticle BiodistributionCandace Wong - PhD Candidate Mar 27, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Environmental impact on skeletal muscle maintenance and regeneration: stem cell nature or nicheDr. Aaron Barchowsky - University of Pittsburgh Mar 23, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Utilizing mouse genetic diversity to identify novel pathways in allergic airway diseaseDr. Samir Kelada - University of North Carolina Mar 21, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Investigating the Immune Responses to UVB and the Relevance of the Aryl Hydrocarbon ReceptorSarah Phalen - PhD Candidate Mar 20, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Epigenetic engineering for lung diseaseDr. Alexey V. Fedulov - Brigham and Women’s Hospital Mar 07, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Neurotoxicological Consequences of Developmental Exposure to Hyperoxia and Air Pollution: Concurrent Risk Factors of Premature BirthKeith Morris-Schaffer - PhD Candidate Mar 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Emerging Roles for Endogenous Prostaglandins, Lung Fibroblasts, and T Lymphocytes in Maintaining Lung HomeostasisShannon Lacy - PhD Candidate Feb 27, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Effects of Ultrafine Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Alzheimer’s Disease Related Learning and MemoryKatrina Jew - PhD Candidate Feb 20, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Effects of Nanoparticle-containing Chemical-Mechanical Planarization Slurries Following Inhalation ExposuresAlison Elder, Ph.D. - University of Rochester Dept. of Environmental Medicine Feb 16, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820CRM1 (Exportin 1) Inhibitors, Leptomycin B and Curcumin, Alter CRMS1’s Subcellular DistributionKhatera Rahmani - PhD Candidate Feb 13, 2017 @ 1:00 p.m. Medical Center | Case Method Room (1-9576)Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling Effects on Fibroblast Apoptosis Resistance in Radiation-Induced Pulmonary FibrosisKelly Hanson - PhD Candidate Feb 13, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Mechanisms of CD8+ T cell dysfunction caused by developmental activation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR)Christina Post - PhD Candidate Feb 06, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)The effect of topically applied carbon nanomaterial on skin inflammation in a model of allergic contact dermatitis Brian Palmer - PhD Candidate Jan 30, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)The Effects of Ultrafine Particulates from Air Pollution on Microglia in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s DiseaseDenise Herr - PhD Candidate Jan 23, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Is pregnancy an appropriate time to intervene in order to improve long-term offspring health?Kevin J. Pearson, Ph.D. - University of Kentucky Jan 19, 2017 @ 11:00 a.m. Medical Center | 4-8820Persistent and progressive lung injury is linked to recurring DNA damage, cellular senescence and a pro-fibrotic epithelial responseTyler Beach - PhD Candidate Jan 16, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Lessons from the Marfan Lung: TGF-beta, Angiotensin & Lung RepairEnid Neptune, MD - Johns Hopkins University Jan 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)TBDTyler Beach - PhD Candidate Jan 09, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor signaling regulation of allergic inflammationDr. Stokes Peebles - Vanderbilt University Jan 03, 2017 @ 12:00 p.m. Medical Center | K-307 (3-6408)