Fall 2026 Seminar Series

Grainger Hall in the autumn
Grainger Hall, exterior and interior, and roof top garden

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 28Mercedes Bravo, PhD, Duke University: Early Exposures, Lasting Effects? Air pollution and temperature extremes early in the life course
Sept 4David Carlson, PhD, Duke University: Measuring Urban Heat and Estimating the Effects of Mitigation Strategies
Sept 11Andrew West, PhD, Duke University: Emerging toxicant challenges in Lewy body disease risk and progression pathways
Sept 18No seminar: Fall Symposium: Highlighting Duke’s Environmental Health Community
Sept 25Andrew Jones, PhD, Duke University: Merging Population Dynamics, Kinetics, and Diffusion to Describe Dynamics of Microbiome-Immune Interactions
Oct 2John Wambaugh, PhD, UL Research Institutes: How to Think About Risk from “Data Poor” Chemicals
Oct 9TBD
Oct 16John Rooney, PhD, Syngenta: TBD
Oct 23Natalie Gassman, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham: Mapping DNA lesions offers new strategies for understanding genotoxicity and changes in the cellular microenvironment
Oct 30No seminar: Faculty Retreat
Nov 6Kylie Rock, PhD, Clemson University: TBD
Nov 13Ryan Emmanuel, PhD, Duke University: TBD
Nov 20Elizabeth Boxer, PhD candidate, ITEHP/ENV, Duke University: TBD
Nov 27No seminar: Thanksgiving Break
Dec 4Samantha Lewis, PhD, UC Berkeley: TBD

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 speakers and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.