Air Pollution and Health: A Never-ending Story – Jonathan Samet, MD, MS · March 24, 2014 · 10:00am – 11:05am · French Family Building, Room 2237 Join us for a Global Health Exchange lecture, sponsored by DGHI. This event is free and open to the public so please spread the word to your […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Avner Vengosh! Dr. Vengosh has received the Best Science Article Award of 2013 from Environmental Science and Technology for his paper titled, ” Impacts of Shale Gas Wastewater Disposal on Water Quality in Western Pennsylvania.” Co-authors include Nathaniel Warner (PhD, 2013) and Cidney Christie (MEM, 2013). Dr. Vengosh […]
Due to the Spring Symposium, we will not be hosting ToxSeminar this week. If you are looking for the symposium agenda, click here. Unfortunately, registration for this event was required and is currently closed. However, we host a symposium every semester, so keep on eye on our site for info […]
Wei Chou Tseng, ITEHP PhD Candidate, will present a talk titled Somato-dedritic axon initial segment outposts dependent on 480 kDa ankyrin-G organize GABAergic synapses in hippocampal neurons this Friday for ToxSeminar. The seminar will be held in LSRC A247 from Noon to 1:30PM. See you there!
CSETAC 2014 Announcement Clemson University is proud to announce that we will be hosting the 2014 Carolina Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (CSETAC) regional conference from April 24th through April 26th. The conference brings together students, professors, and industry, consulting and government professionals from across North and […]
Reminder: Spring meeting for the North Carolina Society of Toxicology (NC SOT) Regional Chapter, “Systems Toxicology: Integration From the Gene to the Population”. The meeting will be held at the US EPA Main Campus in RTP on Tuesday, March 11. For more information about registration, check out their website!
The 2014 Duke Toxicology Spring Symposium “Cognitive Impairment Caused by Developmental Neurotoxic Exposure: Mechanisms, Consequences and Therapeutic Treatment” will be held March 7, 2014, 9AM-3PM in the Searle Conference Center, Duke University. This symposium is sponsored by the Duke University Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program, Duke Superfund Research Center and […]
Laura Dishaw, an ITEHP Ph.D. Candidate in Heather Stapleton’s lab, presents her research this Friday, February 21 from Noon-1:30PM in LSRC A247. Her talk is titled, Uptake, Metabolism, and Neurodevelopmental Effects of Halogenated Organophosphate Flame Retardants. See you there!
Daniel Baden, Ph.D., the Director of the University of North Carolina Wilimington’s Marine Center, visits Duke this Friday, February 14th to present “From Beach Bedside: Getting our Feet Wet in Translational Marine Science“. We are looking forward to Dr. Baden’s talk, which will be held in LSRC A247 from […]
Dr. Gregory Goss from the University of Alberta, speaks at the ITEHP Spring 2014 Seminar Series this Friday, February 7th. His talk, titled “Nanoparticles: Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing”, will be presented in LSRC A247 from 12-1:30PM. We hope to see you there!
The National Toxicology Progam, US Environmental Protection Agency, and NC State University have coordinated to develop “a collaborative workshop on aquatic vertebrate models and 21st century toxicology.” This workshop will be held May 5-6 at North Carolina State University. The purpose of the workshop will be to explore, and discuss […]
Xinyu (Candy) Yang, an ITEHP PhD Candidate, will be speaking this Friday for our fourth seminar of the spring series. Her talk is titled, Mechanisms of silver nanoparticle toxicity in laboratory suspension and complex environmental media in Caenorhabditis elegans. We look forward to seeing you this Friday at […]
This week Mariah Arnold, an ITEHP PhD Candidate, will present Impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining in the Mud River, West Virginia: Selenium accumulation, trophic transfer, and toxicity in biofilms in fish for the ITEHP Spring Seminar Series. See you at Noon in LSRC A247!
Dr. Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, a new hire to Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and faculty member in the ITEHP, will kick off the Spring 2014 Seminar Series with his talk, “Exploring How Respirable Particles Affect Health: From Real-world Observations to Laboratory Experiments”. Join us on January 10th from […]
Environmental Factor, a monthly journal released by NIEHS, revisited our Fall 2013 Symposium on “Rapidly Emerging Nanomaterials: Insuring Human and Environmental Health” in this month’s edition. Follow this link to read the article.