Seminars & Events
EHSC Seminar Series: Advances and set backs in understanding the health effects of e-cigarettes EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity
Laura Crotty Alexander, MD - Associate Professor, Medicine, Univ. California San Diego
CIFT/CRofT and EHSC joint seminar: Advances and set backs in understanding the health effects of e-cigarettes
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes and pulmonary toxicity
Dec 09, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: Extracellular Vesicles in Environmental Health and Disease
Quan Lu, PhD - Professor, Harvard University
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment interaction, neurotoxicology and asthma
Nov 18, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: Parkinson's Disease: A Tale of Two Cities—Genome and Exposome
(NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Souvarish Sarkar, PhD - Researcher, Harvard Medical School
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Gene-Environment interaction and neurotoxicology
Nov 04, 2021 @ 10:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: Early life exposure to vaping aerosols lead to later life health outcomes: Translation from a mouse model
Judy Zelikoff, PhD - New York University
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes
Oct 21, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Rebecca Ruston or Marissa Sobolewski TerryInhalation toxicological assessment of tobacco and menthol flavored e-cigarettes
Thivanka Muthumalage, PhD - Dr. Irfan Rahman’s Laboratory, University of Rochester
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: E-cigarettes
Oct 07, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Laura Bean or Marissa Sobolewski TerryHigh Resolution Analysis of Inhaled Exogenous vs Bio-generated Endogenous Nanoparticles in Olfactory Bulbs of Humans with Neurodegeneration: Significance of Iron and Phosphate
Uschi Graham, PhD - University of Kentucky
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution
Sep 30, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Laura Bean or Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: The Coupling of Air Quality and Climate Change
Lee Murray, PhD - Earth & Environmental Sciences - University of Rochester, Earth & Environmental Sciences - University of Rochester
EHSC Seminar Series Highlighted Topic: Climate change, Particulate Matter and Air Pollution
Sep 16, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
for Zoom link contact Laura Bean or Marissa Sobolewski TerryEHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf - University of Kentucky
Jun 10, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom InvitationThe 12th Annual Lung Research & Trainee day
Guest Speaker Dr. Anne Hilgendorff from Munich, Germany
Jun 07, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
ZoomToxicology Training Program Retreat: Microglia and the Lung-Brain Axis in Amyloid Pathology: Implications for Alzheimer’s Disease
Keynote speaker, Dr. Michelle Block - Indiana University School of Medicine
May 27, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
ZoomTOX 558 Seminar Series: Changes in the Glial Landscape Following Single-Dose Brain Radiation
TOX 558 Seminar Series: Characterizing Microglia in the Developing Cerebellum
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Causation in OEM: Judging work-related causation in individual patients
George Friedman-Jimenez, MD, DrPH - Director, Bellevue / NYU Occupational Environmental Medicine Clinic, Assistant Professor of Population Health, Medicine and Environmental Medicine Bellevue Hospital Center, NYU School of Medicine
May 13, 2021 @ 8:00 a.m.
ZoomTOX 558 Seminar Series: Cellular Effects of Zwitterionic-Coated Nanoparticles
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Caleb Finch - University of Southern California
May 06, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Comparative analysis of developmental toxicity mechanisms of mercury, lead, and arsenic in the Drosophila model
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Tom O’Connor - University of Rochester
Apr 22, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom InvitationLung Biology Research Seminar Series: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a role for aberrant cell quality control and dysfunctional endophenotypes in the distal lung epithelium
Michael F. Beers, MD - Robert L. Mayock & David A. Cooper Professor of Medicine, Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Apr 20, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Bioactivity of Environmental Microplastics and their Adsorbed Pollutants
TOX 558 Seminar Series: The aryl hydrocarbon receptor influences the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during viral infection
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Devon Payne-Sturges - University of Maryland
Apr 08, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom InvitationLung Biology Research Seminar Series: Dopamine signaling in lung fibrosis and resolution
Daniel J. Tschumperlin, PhD - Professor, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic
Apr 06, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationLung Biology Research Seminar Series: Viral manipulation of the cellular environment
Joshua C. Munger, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Mar 30, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Mesenchymal stem cell phagocytosis a facultative process that induces senescence
TOX 558 Seminar Series: Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) disrupts protective tight junction proteins in lung epithelial cells
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Type I Interferons as Regulators of Allergic Inflammation
Regina K. Rowe, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Mar 16, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Pregnancy is a critical window for endocrine disrupting chemical effects on maternal endocrine and metabolic health
Alyssa Merrill - TOX PhD Candidate
Mar 15, 2021 @ 1:00 p.m.
ZoomHost: Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, PhD, & Marissa Sobolewski, Ph.D.
EHSC Seminar Series: Old Order Mennonite lifestyle and protective factors against early childhood allergic disease
Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo - University of Rochester
Mar 11, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
ZoomTOX 558 Seminar Series: Flavoring Chemicals Found in E-Cigarettes Induce Inflammation in Macrophages
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Organoid modeling of lung disease and lung cancer
Carla Kim, PhD - Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Mar 02, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Biotransformation of MeHg to Hg2+ is a key determinant of toxicokinetics & toxicity
EHSC Seminar Series: Emerging Toxicology of Flavorings with a focus on menthol/mint on activation of Chemosensory Receptors and Respiratory Irritation Responses (Brain-Lung connection)
Sven Jordt - Duke University
Mar 01, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
ZoomHost: Joint Seminar with Center for Flavorings Toxicology
TOX 558 Seminar Series: Methylmercury perturbs the myotendinous junction of Drosophila during flight muscle development
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase and Lung Inflammation
Chen Yan, Ph.D. - Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research, Institute University of Rochester
Feb 16, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
ZoomTOX 558 Seminar Series: The Role of Lactate in Macrophage Polarization in RIPF
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Emily Barrett - Rutgers University
Feb 11, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
ZoomTOX 558 Seminar Series: Thyroid disrupters perturb thymocyte development in Xenopus laevis
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: The Natriuretic Peptide System – a New Surfactant Regulator?
Rita M. Ryan, MD - Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Feb 02, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Mediators and Moderators of Methylmercury Toxicity in Drosophila Neuromuscular Development
EHSC Seminar Series: TBA
Katarzyna Kordas - University of Buffalo
Jan 28, 2021 @ 11:00 a.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: The Influence of Developmental Iron Deficiency on Lead Exposure
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: CFTR-expressing ionocytes in the salivary gland
Catherine E. Ovitt, PhD - Professor, Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Jan 19, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
Zoom InvitationTOX 558 Seminar Series: Targeting the Proton Sensing GPCR OGR1 to Inhibit TGF-β Induced Myofibroblast Differentiation
Lung Biology Research Seminar Series: Inhalation exposure facility: Infrastructure to facilitate multidirectional translation
Alison Elder, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center
Jan 05, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m.
ZoomToxicology Training Program Seminar TOX 558: Paraquat Inhalation, a Translationally Relevant Route of Exposure, Produces Male-specific Deficits in Locomotor Behavior, Decreased Midbrain Dopamine, and Alterations to Striatal Glutamine and Serotonin
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds: Managing the Workforce During the Pandemic
Michael J. Apostolakos, MD, FCCP - Chief Medical Officer Vice President, University of Rochester Medical Center Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
Jan 04, 2021 @ 8:00 a.m.
Zoom