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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 Hae-Ryung Park.

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: Understanding social and environmental risk factors for psychosis

David Dodell-Feder, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic:  Neurotoxicology and Air Pollution
Seminar narrative: Outcomes for individuals with a psychotic-spectrum disorder (PSD) are often poor, posing a profound burden to affected individuals and society. For that reason, increasing work has focused on better understanding potentially modifiable aspects of the environment that confer risk for PSDs. This research has uncovered a suite of social and physical/chemical factors related to the psychosis phenotype, though many open questions remain. In this talk, I will discuss several recently completed and ongoing studies in my lab to better understand some of these environmental risk factors and highlight areas for future research.

 Dec 15, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Air pollution and autism: novel methods to explore live birth bias

Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD - Professor, Harvard University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Neurotoxicology
Seminar Narrative: Accumulating evidence suggests an association between perinatal air pollution exposure and autism spectrum disorders in offspring. Nonetheless, important questions remain and important epidemiologic methods issues complicate the assessment of this question. I will show some of our own work demonstrating some of these issues, and describe a novel method to assess some of the key aspects of bias that can arise.

 Dec 08, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Taking Aims Seminar

Hae-Ryung Park, MS, PhD - Assistant Professor, URMC Dept. Environmental Medicine

 Dec 01, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | EHSC 4.8820

EHSC Seminar Series: Lake sturgeon as bioindicators of Genesee River health

Jeffrey Wyatt, DVM, MPH - Professor, University of Rochester

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic:  Environmental Health and Chemical Mixtures

 Nov 17, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

CANCELLED -- Taking Aims Seminar

Margot Mayer-Proschel, PhD - Professor, URMC Depts. Biomedical Genetics and Neuroscience

 Nov 03, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | EHSC 4.8820

EHSC Seminar Series: Tales from the lung: modeling immune cell dynamics during acute and chronic stress

Alessandro Venosa, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Utah

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Air Pollution and Pulmonary Toxicity

 Oct 27, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Public Health Grand Rounds: Climate Impacts and Solutions for the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region

Abigail McHugh-Grifa, PhD - Executive Director, Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region

Climate change is a public health crisis that is already impacting the lives of local residents. This presentation will identify local threats and opportunities associated with climate change, with recommendations for how healthcare professionals can advance equitable, systemic climate solutions.

Flyer

 Oct 21, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

Pre-registration for this session is required

Host: Department of Public Health Sciences and Center for Community Health & Prevention, with additional funding from the UR Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Taking Aims Seminar

Marissa Sobolewski, PhD - Assistant Professor, URMC Dept. of Environmental Medicine

 Oct 06, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

 Medical Center | EHSC 4.8820

EHSC Seminar Series: Translational impact of neurotoxicant-neuromelanin interactions critical to catecholaminergic neurotoxicity

Jason Cannon, PhD - Associate Professor, Purdue University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment Interaction and Neurotoxicology

 Sep 22, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Endocrine disruptors, green chemistry, and the mammary gland

Laura Vandenberg, PhD - Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Reproductive Toxicology

 Sep 15, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Toxicology Retreat Keynote Seminar

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D. - former NIEHS and NTP Director

 May 26, 2022 @ 11:15 a.m.

 Medical Center | Class of '62 Auditorium

Hybrid Zoom

EHSC Seminar Series: Ambient air pollution and pediatric brain development: insights from the ABCD study

Megan Herting, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Air Pollution and Neurotoxicity

 May 19, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: “Forever Chemicals” in Your Body: Bioaccumulation of Per-/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs)

Carrie McDonough, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution

 Apr 14, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Host: EHSC and Environmental and Earth Science Joint Seminar

Public Health Grand Rounds: Sustainability

Michael Waller, PhD - Director of Sustainability, Rochester Regional Health

 Apr 01, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.

Webinar Registration

EHSC Seminar Series: Translational research validating the emerging field of obesogens

Michele A La Merrill, PhD MPH she/her/hers - Associate Professor
Chancellor’s Fellow, Department of Environmental Toxicology
Genome-, Environmental Health-, Comprehensive Cancer-, and Perinatal Origins of Disparities- Centers
University of California at Davis

 Mar 03, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds Topic: Occupational health of sign language interpreters during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gretchen Roman, PT, DPT, PhD - Postdoctoral Associate, Community Outreach & Engagement in the Wilmot Cancer Institute and in the Department of Public Health Sciences

 Mar 03, 2022 @ 8:00 a.m.

Zoom link contact Brenda Herrmann

Host: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Sign Language Interpretation Provided

EHSC Seminar Series: TBA

Folami Ideraabdullah - University of North Carolina

 Feb 24, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: The Truth Fairy Project: Assessing legacy pollution in communities near a lead-acid battery smelter

Jill Johnston, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Metals and Community Outreach

 Feb 17, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: When T cells get stressed: the role of the stress-activated transcription factor Nrf2 in host defense and allergy

Cheryl Rockwell, PhD - Michigan State University

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Immunotoxicology

 Feb 03, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

EHSC Seminar Series: Effects of electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) aerosols on the developing mouse lung

Alexandra Noel, PhD - Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

CIFT/CRofT and EHSC joint seminar: TBA

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity

 Jan 20, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Role of the Blood Coagulation Cascade in Acute and Chronic Toxicant-Induced Liver Injury
Faculty Candidate

Lauren G. Poole, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Intervention, Michigan State University

 Jan 18, 2022 @ 9:00 a.m.

Zoom

Host: The Department of Environmental Medicine NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Center

EHSC Seminar Series: Mano a mano: Addressing tobacco-related disparities among Latinos via community-led research and technology solutions

Francisco Cartujano-Barrera, M.D. - Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester

EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and Smoking Cessation

 Jan 06, 2022 @ 11:00 a.m.

for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski Terry