Seminars & Events
Characterizing the Effects of Perfluorohexanoic (PFHxA) Exposure on the Mouse Brain during Two Critical Windows: Development and Pregnancy - Thesis Defense
Elizabeth Plunk, MS - PhD Candidate
email Elizabeth_Plunk@urmc.rochester.edu for Zoom link
Jun 10, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Medical Center | SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
Host: Advisor: Ania Majewska
Toxicology Training Program Annual Retreat
Keynote Address: “Epigenomic Reprogramming Induced by Early Life Environmental Exposures”
May 29, 2025
11:00am - 12:00pm, SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
Cheryl Walker, PhD
Alkek Presidential Chair in Environmental Health; Director, Center for Precision Environmental Health; Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
May 29, 2025 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center | SMD Large Aud. (2-6424)
Host: Department of Environmental Medicine
EnLight Seminar Series: "Biomonitoring of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals in New York"
Highlighted topic: PFAS, pesticides, and heavy metals
Speakers:
Kurunthachalam Kannan, PhD
Deputy Director of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Wadsworth Center
Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany
Anne Pysnik, MPH
Biomonitoring NY Project Coordinator
NYSDOH, Center for Environmental Health
May 08, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoHost: Co-sponsored by the Finger Lakes Occupational Health Services Clinic
EnLight Seminar Series: “Leveraging the amphibian Xenopus to assess the risks of microplastics on immune health.”
Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: exposure to microplastics, immune homeostasis, chronic inflammation, antimicrobial immunity
Apr 17, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series “Emerging endocrine disruptors: learning from and looking beyond the usual suspects”
Emily Barrett, PhD - Professor, Rutgers University School of Public Health
Highlighted topic: Endocrine disruptors, maternal child health, food contaminants
Apr 10, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the IHHE and the Center for Community Health & Prevention: A Green Heart for Healthy Communities
Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville
Highlighted topic: Climate and health, health equity, air quality, extreme heat
Mar 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Helen Wood Hall | 1W-304 School of Nursing Auditorium
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Follow Your Passion, Not the Rules: My Atypical 'Cell to Society' Approach to Studying Wildfire Smoke Health Effects"
Luke Montrose, PhD - Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Mar 06, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Examining the in vivo effects of microplastics: Gut and Systemic Response"
Eliseo F. Castillo, PhD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Highlighted topic: Gut microbiota, intestinal epithelium, the mucosal immune system
Feb 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: “Brain Organoids + AI = Organoid Intelligence (OI)”
Thomas Hartung, MD PhD - Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Highlighted topic: Organoid culture, mini-brains, artificial intelligence
Jan 30, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Complete Electrocatalytic Aqueous Defluorination of PFAS with Nonprecious Materials"
Astrid M. Müller, PhD - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: PFAS defluorination, Perfluorooctane sulfonate, Perfluorooctanoic acid, GenX, Aqueous electrocatalysis
Jan 23, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado