2023-2024 Seminar Schedule

NIEHS T32 Seminar Series 2023-2024

Location: PES 3001

Time: 12pm-1pm Student session with Speaker/1pm-2pm Seminar Session

 

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Topic

Host

Thursday, 10/12/2023

Dr. Ramji Bhandari

University of Missouri

Impairments in the gut-liver-gonad axis of fish with a history of ancestral BPA exposure

Environmental Epigenetics, Transgenerational Inheritance (TGI)

Anthony Tercero and Elisa Gonzalez-Smith

Thursday, 12/14/2023

Bevin Engelward

MIT

DNA Damage-Induced Mutations and Clonal Expansion in the Context of Environmental Health

DNA damage and repair

Melody Malek and Elisa Gonzalez-Smith (if needed for logistical support)

Thursday, 1/11/2024

Ilona Jaspers

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Inhalational Exposures and their Impact on Respiratory Health - in vitro, in vivo and real people Inhalational exposures and lung health

Sharon Sanghar and Clarisa Martinez

Thursday, 2/8/2024

Benjamin Medoff

Harvard The Airway Mucosal Microenvironment
Determines the Asthma Phenotype
Ashma microenvironments

Stephanie Henson

Thursday, 4/25/2024 Tracey Wooddruff UCSF The Silent Disruption: Environmental Chemicals and Effects on Early Brain Development Toxic chemicals, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and child development

Kelly Chau

Thursday, 5/9/2024

Dr. Masashi Kitazawa UC Irvine Deciphering the neurotoxic mechanisms linking air pollution and Alzheimer's disease Studying air pollution (likely TRAP) and its effects on animal models to study Alzheimer's Disease

Melanie Reuter and Nathifa Nasim

Thursday, 6/13/2024 Dr. Susan Schantz University of Illinois Through the Window of a Baby's Eyes: Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and Early Cognitive Development Associations between phthalate and phenol exposure and cognitive development

Elisa Gonzalez-Smith