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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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EnLight Seminar Series: "Intercellular Communications in the Healthy and Susceptible Lung"

Alessandro Venosa, Pharm.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah

Highlighted topic: Pulmonary fibrosis, ozone, inflammation and macrophages

Nov 14, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

EnLight Seminar Series: "A Developmental Neurotoxicity "Who Done It": Identifying Culprits in Real World Mixtures"

Heather Patisaul, PhD - Professor, North Carolina State University

Highlighted topic: Neurotoxicology and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

EnLight Seminar Series: “In Vitro Models of Tissue Barriers for Studying the Impact of Systematic Stressors on Human Health”

James McGrath, PhD - Professor, University of Rochester

Oct 24, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

EnLight Seminar Series: "ADME Phenoconversion in MASH: Diagnostic Opportunity or Risk of Toxicity"

Nathan Cherrington, PhD - Associate Dean, University of Arizona

Highlighted topic: Liver Biology and Toxicology

Oct 10, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

EnLight Seminar Series: “A Novel Approach to Assessing the Joint Effects of Mercury and Fish Consumption on Neurodevelopment in the New Bedford Cohort”

Sally Thurston, PhD - Professor, University of Rochester

Highlighted topic: TBD

Sep 26, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

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

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

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado

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

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

Highlighted topic: Inhaled agents and Inflammation

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Marissa Sobolewski Terry

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

Highlighted topic: Mammalian reproductive differentiation

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Housing, Health and Environmental Justice Research Workshop

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

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

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

Helen Wood Hall | School of Nursing Auditorium

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

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

Highlighted topic: Inhalation toxicity

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Marissa Sobolewski Terry

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

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

Highlighted topic: Reproductive and endocrinology

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Marissa Sobolewski Terry

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

Highlighted topic: Healthy Housing

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Taking Aims Seminar

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

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

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

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

Highlighted topic: Stem Cells and Toxicology

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Gabriela Cuadra or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

Taking Aims Seminar

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

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

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

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

Highlighted Topic: Metals and Mitochondria

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Gabriela Cuadra or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

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

Joel Meyer, PhD - Associate Professor, Duke University

Highlighted topic: Metals and Mitochondria

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Gabriela Cuadra or Marissa Sobolewski Terry

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

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

Highlighted topic: Neurotoxicology and Air Pollution

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

Medical Center | 4-8820

for Zoom link contact Gabriela Cuadra or Marissa Sobolewski Terry