Fall 2025 Seminar Series!

We are excited to announce our Fall 2025 seminar series lineup! From local to international speakers, our seminars will highlight various areas of environmental toxicology research.

Location: Field Auditorium* room 1112, Grainger Hall, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

*unless otherwise noted

Virtual Attendance: Most seminars will be streamed on Panopto. Click on each seminar’s link to access that day’s livestream!


Aug 29  Jillian Hurst, PhD; Duke University: The microbiome as a mediator of the host-environment interface

Sept 5  Janine Santos, PhD; NIEHS: Leveraging high throughput screening data to learn new mitochondrial biology

Sept 19  Samira Musah, PhD; Duke University

Sept 26  Dan Rittschof, PhD; Duke University: Adventures in Plastic World: Learning Through Doing

Oct 3  Anaís Roque, PhD; Duke University

Oct 10*  Augustine Arukwe, DSc; Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Systems toxicology and One Health metabolic disorders

*Virtual Seminar

Oct 17  Elena Craft, PhD; Health Effects Institute (HEI)

Oct 24  Megan Rebuli, PhD; UNC Chapel Hill

Oct 31  Natalia Duque-Wilckens, DVM, PhD; NC State University: Mast cells as a new link between early-life exposures and lifelong vulnerability to brain and body disorders

Nov 14  Rodrigo Franco Cruz, PhD; University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Nov 21  CEC/RTC workshop

This seminar series is supported in part by the National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under the Duke University Superfund Research Program (award P42ES010356) and the Duke University Program in Environmental Health (award T32ES021432). Seminar content is solely the responsibility of the