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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.
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 MercadoEnLight 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 MercadoEnLight 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 MercadoEnLight 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 MercadoEnLight 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 MercadoEnLight 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 MercadoEnLight 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 TerryEnLight 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 TerryHousing, 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
Deadline: April 1st
Register Here
For questions or enquiries, please contact us at ihhe@urmc.rochester.edu
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 TerryEnLight 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 TerryEnLight 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 TerryTaking 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 TerryTaking 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 TerryEnLight 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 TerryEnLight 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