Fall 2025 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 29  Jillian Hurst, PhD; Duke University: The microbiome as a mediator of the host-environment interface

Sept 5  Janine Santos, PhD; NIEHS: Leveraging high throughput screening data to learn new mitochondrial biology

Sept 19  Samira Musah, PhD; Duke University: Human Organ Chip Models for Nephrotoxicity Screening and Biomedical Applications

Sept 26  Dan Rittschof, PhD; Duke University: Adventures in Plastic World: Learning Through Doing

Oct 3  Anaís Roque, PhD; Duke University: Community Water Governance in the Wake of Disasters: Insights from Puerto Rico

Oct 10*  CANCELLED Augustine Arukwe, DSc; Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Systems toxicology and One Health metabolic disorders

Oct 10* Caren Weinhouse, PhD; Oregon Health & Science University: Epigenetic memory of environmental stress response

*Virtual Seminar

Oct 17  Elena Craft, PhD; Health Effects Institute (HEI): Independent Science, Real-World Impact: Inside HEI

Oct 24  Megan Rebuli, PhD; UNC Chapel Hill: Wood smoke alteration of respiratory mucosal immune health

Oct 31  Natalia Duque-Wilckens, DVM, PhD; NC State University: Mast cells as a new link between early-life exposures and lifelong vulnerability to brain and body disorders

Nov 14  Rodrigo Franco Cruz, PhD; University of Nebraska – Lincoln: Cell fate determination by metabolic adaptations upon environmental stress and viral infection

Nov 21  Community Engagement & Research Translation Core workshop, Duke University: Models of Community-Engaged Scholarship in Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology

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.