Fall 2024 Seminar Series


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 30   Jeseth Delgado Vela, PhD; Duke University: Microbial ecology, cell-cell signaling, and implications for environmental health

Sept 6     Surabhi Shah, US EPA: Cumulative Impacts and Authentic Community Partnerships  Location: Love auditorium, LSRC B101

Sept 13 Subham Dasgupta, PhD; Clemson University: Leveraging zebrafish as a model to study maternal-to-zygotic transition and dorsoventral patterning as targets of developmental toxicants 

Sept 27 Peter van den Hurk, PhD; Clemson University: Phylogenetic patterns of phase II biotransformation enzymes in lower vertebrates 

Oct 4    Amina Salamova, PhD; Emory University: Quaternary Ammonium Compounds: A Chemical Class of Emerging Concern 

Oct 11   Arlene Blum, PhD; Green Science Policy Institute: Reducing Chemical Harm: Organohalogens and the Class Concept 

Oct 18   Natalie Johnson, PhD; Texas A&M: Air Pollution and Susceptible Populations

Oct 25   Anna Villalobos Santeli, PhD candidate; Duke University: Investigation of leachable and bioaccessible polymer additives in microplastics  Location: Love auditorium, LSRC B101

Nov 1 John McCracken, PhD; University of Georgia: Household Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Effects 

Nov 15 Sam Samon, PhD; Reporting back Research Results 

Dec 6 Shaza Gaballah, PhD candidate; Duke University: Investigating in utero Accumulation of Legacy and Emerging Flame Retardants in the Maternal and Fetal Placenta and Associations with Placental Thyroid Hormones

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.