Duke University Program in Environmental Health (UPEH)
Fall 2018 Seminar Series (PHARM 847-S/ENV 847-S)
Fridays 11:45 am – 1:00 pm; Field Auditorium, Environment Hall
Sept 7 Natalie Saini, PhD, NIEHS: The contributions of DNA damage and repair to genome-wide human somatic mutation loads
Sept 21 Christopher D. Heaney, PhD, Johns Hopkins University: Arsenic exposure and immune response to infection and vaccination during pregnancy and early life
Sept 28 Symposium: Emerging Contaminants in the Ambient Environment (held at The Washington Duke Inn)
THURSDAY, Oct 4 Ben Van Houten, PhD, University of Pittsburgh: Using nanosurgery to investigate mitochondria-telomere crosstalk
Oct 19 Gary H. Perdew, PhD, Pennsylvania State University: Ligand selectivity and evolutionary divergence of the human Ah Receptor: Implications in innate immunity
Oct 26 Robert A. Waterland, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine: Early environmental influences on human developmental epigenetics
Nov 1-2 Environmental Health Scholars Fall Forum – JB Duke Hotel
Nov 9 Folami Y. Ideraabdullah, PhD, UNC–Chapel Hill School of Medicine: Developmental programming of the epigenome: Defining the role of vitamin D
Nov 16 Chris J. Coutts, MPH, PhD, Florida State University: Ecology of Health
Nov 23 Thanksgiving Break
Nov 30 Kate D. Meyer, PhD, Duke University, Department of Biochemistry: mRNA Methylation and Gene Expression Control
Dec 7 Allison L. Phillips, Duke UPEH Program, PhD Candidate: Exposure, Metabolism, and In Vitro Effects of Isopropylated Triarylphosphate Esters