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.
Toxicology Training Program Annual Retreat
Keynote Address
11:00am - 12:00pm, SMD Large Auditorium (2-6424)
Cheryl Walker, PhD
Alkek Presidential Chair in Environmental Health; Director, Center for Precision Environmental Health; Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
May 29, 2025 @ 9:00 a.m.
Medical Center |
Host: Department of Environmental Medicine
Future Researchers in Environmental Science and Health (FRESH) Seminar
Xiao Wu - Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University
May 22, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
EnLight Seminar Series: "Biomonitoring New York"
Karen Wilson, MPH - Research Scientist, NYS Department of Health
Highlighted topic: TBD
May 08, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoJack Finkelstein Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the EHSC, IHHE, and the Division of Neonatology
Rebecca Simmons, MD - Professor of Neonatology; Associate Director, Center for Research, Reproduction and Women’s Health, University of Pennsylvania
Highlighted topic: TBD
May 01, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Adolph Lower Auditorium (1-7619)
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "TBA"
Jacques Robert, PhD - Professor, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: TBA
Apr 17, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series “Emerging endocrine disruptors: learning from and looking beyond the usual suspects”
Emily Barrett, PhD - Professor, Rutgers University School of Public Health
Highlighted topic: Endocrine disruptors, maternal child health, food contaminants
Apr 10, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the IHHE and the Center for Community Health & Prevention: A Green Heart for Healthy Communities
Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES - Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville
Highlighted topic: Climate and health, health equity, air quality, extreme heat
Mar 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Helen Wood Hall | 1W-304 School of Nursing Auditorium
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Follow Your Passion, Not the Rules: My Atypical 'Cell to Society' Approach to Studying Wildfire Smoke Health Effects"
Luke Montrose, PhD - Assistant Professor of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University
Highlighted topic: TBD
Mar 06, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Examining the in vivo effects of microplastics: Gut and Systemic Response"
Eliseo F. Castillo, PhD - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Highlighted topic: Gut microbiota, intestinal epithelium, the mucosal immune system
Feb 27, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoWilmot Cancer Institute and the IHHE Seminar Series: "Making Space for Radon in Lunch Cancer Prevention Efforts”
Stacy Stanifer, PhD, APRN, AOCNS - Assistant Professor, College of Nursing University of Kentucky
Feb 14, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m.
Medical Center | Formicola Conference Room – Wilmot 2.0727
EnLight Seminar Series: “Brain Organoids + AI = Organoid Intelligence (OI)”
Thomas Hartung, MD PhD - Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Highlighted topic: Organoid culture, mini-brains, artificial intelligence
Jan 30, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah MercadoEnLight Seminar Series: "Complete Electrocatalytic Aqueous Defluorination of PFAS with Nonprecious Materials"
Astrid M. Müller, PhD - Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Highlighted topic: PFAS defluorination, Perfluorooctane sulfonate, Perfluorooctanoic acid, GenX, Aqueous electrocatalysis
Jan 23, 2025 @ 11:00 a.m.
Medical Center | 4-8820
For Zoom link contact Anisah Mercado