Seminars & Events
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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.
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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryTaking 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 TerryCANCELLED -- 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 TerryPublic 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.
Oct 21, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m.
Pre-registration for this session is requiredHost: 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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryToxicology 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 ZoomEHSC 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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryHost: 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 RegistrationEHSC 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 TerryOccupational 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 HerrmannHost: 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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryEHSC 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 TerryRole 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.
ZoomHost: 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