Lab Tours

Trainees’ EHS education is augmented by tours of labs devoted to some aspect of environmental health, thanks to EHS faculty, postdocs, students, and staff who give these tours.

Organized events in recent years include:

• Hearing about and touring the Van Lare Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Attending an open house at the High Acres Landfill
• Touring the EHSC Inhalation Exposure Facility Core
• Watching mice behavior in mazes and viewing microscopic brain images in a lab focused on sex-differentiated mechanisms of neurotoxicity
• Exploring the Rochester air quality monitoring station with explanations by an air pollution expert
• Monitoring brain waves of a trainee listening to different sounds in the Computational Neuroscience of Audition Lab

Having seen the points where something may go wrong...let us appreciate the data and realize the practical side of the coin is as important as the statistical side." _{– T32 Trainee}

• Touring the EHSC Elemental Analysis Facility
• Observing a fetal mouse dissection in the epigenetics laboratory
• Visiting a lab with Xenopus frogs used to study immunity to pathogens
• Viewing a lab that manufactures nanomembranes that can be used to filter and study microplastics in the public water supply
• Seeing transgenic Drosophila (fruitflies) in a lab devoted to studying the molecular, genetic and metabolic pathways associated with developmental MeHg toxicity
• Observing human placentas in a lab that studies environmental factors associated with placenta pathology and its association with in utero development and adult disease