Talk Title: "Pharmaceuticals and personal care products as agents of ecological change" Bio: Dr. Rosi’s research focuses on how human activities affect aquatic life and water quality in diverse ecosystems around the world. Her work examines aquatic ecosystem health with a focus on ecosystem function and food webs. She has conducted ground-breaking research on how…
Talk Title: "Genes, environment and a roll of the dice: Epigenetic mechanisms of metabolic disease variation." Bio: Dr. J. Andrew Pospisilik is a leading expert in the study of how the epigenome regulates complex trait variation as well as disease susceptibility and heterogeneity. He earned his B.Sc. with honors and his Ph.D. in Physiology from…
Talk Title: "Prenatal environmental stressors synergize to impact neuroimmue function and behavior in male mice: relevance for neurodevelopmental disorders" Bio: Dr. Staci Bilbo is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Neurobiology, and Cell Biology at Duke University whose research is broadly focused on the mechanisms by which the immune and endocrine systems interact with the…
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Talk Title: "Exploding cells by proptosis to eradicate intracellular infection" Bio: Dr. Edward Miao’s MD/PhD degree program, focusing my clinical electives on infectious disease and immunology. Although he did not pursue a residency, his MD training has instructed the trajectory of his research program. Dr. Miao has a broad whole-body foundation of anatomy and physiology…
Talk Title: "Environmental modulators of tryptophan metabolism and maternal health" Bio: Martha Susiarjo graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2007 with a PhD in Genetics. During her PhD training, she worked with Patricia Hunt on the impacts of bisphenol A exposure on meiotic aneuploidy in mouse germ cells. She continued with a postdoctoral training…
Talk Title: "APOBEC3A-induced mutagenesis during cancer development and treatment" Bio: Dr. Steven A. Roberts is an associate professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University in Pullman, WA where his lab studies mechanisms of mutagenesis during cancer development. His interests in DNA damage, DNA repair, and mutation began during his Ph.D. research…
Talk Title: “Designing epidemiologic studies of exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and antibody response to vaccination” Bio: Dr. Starling is an environmental epidemiologist with a focus on chemical exposures during critical periods of the lifecourse and their influence on chronic disease risk, including epigenetic mechanisms. In her recent work with the Center for…
Talk Title: "The expanding skin redox exposome: From environmental stressors to skin cancer prevention" Bio: Dr. Georg Wondrak’s research examines the pathological role of oxidative stress in solar photodamage and skin cancer (melanoma and nonmelanoma) aiming at the design of novel molecular strategies for redox-directed prevention and therapeutic intervention, investigations with potential relevance to other…
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Talk Title: "RNA methylatation in stress response and environmental carcinogenesis" Bio: Yu-Ying He is currently a Professor of Medicine with Tenure at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2000 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Then she was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship and worked with Dr. Donat-P.…