Duke University Program in Environmental Health & Toxicology Fall 2019 Seminar Series (Pharm 847-S/ENV 847-S) Fridays 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Field Auditorium, Grainger Hall unless otherwise noted Sept 6 Phillip West, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Mitochondrial Control of Innate Immunity in Health and Disease Sept 13 […]
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Summer 2019 Research Internship Application deadline is 5:00 pm EST, Friday, February 1, 2019. The World Health Organization defines environmental health as “encompassing the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments.” The field of environmental […]
Our Toxicology Seminar Series, is taking place this Thursday, February 1, from 11:45 am – 1:00 pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, on Duke’s West Campus. During Thursday’s seminar, Dr. Lisa Satterwhite will be speaking about her research with the Latino farmworker communities of eastern NC. Her talk is entitled […]
Our seminar speaker on Friday, November 10, from 12:00 – 1:20pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, will be our own Jessica Brandt, a 5th year UPEH/ITEHP PhD candidate in Dr. Rich Di Giulio and Dr. Emily Bernhardt’s labs. She will be speaking about “Tracing coal ash through aquatic food webs: enrichment, bioaccumulation, and […]
Our speaker this Friday, November 3, is Dr. Andrew Whitehead from UC Davis. We be in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, on Duke’s West Campus, for his talk from 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm. Please join us! Dr. Whitehead will be speaking about “The Solution to Pollution is … Evolution? The Genomic Basis of Rapid Adaptation in Killfish.” The abstract […]
A friendly reminder about the upcoming Friday, October 27, UPEH/ITEHP Seminar from 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm in Love Auditorium, LSRC B101, on Duke’s West Campus. Laura Maurer, PhD, MPH, will be speaking about “Applying toxicological data to regulatory decision making.” Dr. Maurer was postdoc in the Nicholas School from […]
Please join us on Friday, October 20, at 12:00 pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, to hear Dr. Robert Tighe speak about “Links between pulmonary macrophage function and environmental exposures.” Dr. Tighe is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine within the Pulmonary, Allergy and […]
Please join us on Friday, October 13, at 12:00 pm in Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, to hear Dr. Chris Kassotis speak about “Mechanisms of adipogenic activity of environmental contaminants and mixture.” Dr. Kassotis is currently an NRSA postdoctoral research fellow in the Nicholas School of the Environment. He works in […]
On Friday, October 6, at 12:00 pm in Environment Hall’s Field Auditorium, Dr. Rebecca Fry will present a talk entitled “The Placental Epigenome as a Driver of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.“ Dr. Fry serves as the Director of the UNC Superfund Research Program and is a professor with the […]