Environ 848S/Pharm 848S
Thursdays 12:00-1:15pm Eastern Time | Free and open to the public
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!
Jan 9 Boya Zhang, PhD; Harvard University: The Association of Environmental Factors with Aging-Related Outcomes
Jan 16* ITEHP Alumni Panel: Brook Tvermoes, Chelsea Landon, Elizabeth Chan, Jessica Hartman, Kirsten Overdahl, Laura Carlson, Paige Varner, Savannah Volkoff
*2:00-5:00-pm, Levine Science Research Center, room A158 – In person; NO livestream option. Invite only; RSVP required due to limited capacity.
Jan 23 CANCELLED: Daniel Rittschof, Ph.D; Duke University: Adventures in Plastic World: Learning Through Doing
Jan 30 Mike Bergin, PhD; Duke University: Low-cost sensors, satellite imagery, and deep learning: The future of improving environmental and human health
Feb 6 Manasi Agrawal, MD, MS; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Environmental pollutants and inflammatory bowel disease
Feb 13* Augustine Arukwe, PhD; Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Systems toxicology and One Health metabolic disorders
*Virtual Seminar only
Feb 20 Danny Schust, M.D.; Duke University: Studying Environmental Insults to Peri-implantation Human Pregnancy—Can Misguided Efforts in Reproductive Immunology Guide Us?
Feb 27 Eri Saikawa, PhD; Emory College of Arts and Sciences: Tackling Local, Regional, & Global Environmental Issues
Mar 6 Christine Marie George, PhD; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Effect of an Arsenic Mitigation Program on Arsenic Exposure in American Indian Communities: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Community-Led Strong Heart Water Study Program
Mar 13 No seminar – spring break
Mar 20 No seminar – SOT March 16-20
Mar 27 Jason Somarelli, PhD; Duke University: Life at a planetary boundary: How can we solve the plastic pollution crisis?
Apr 3 No seminar
Apr 10* Ilaria Merutka, PhD candidate, ITEHP; Duke University: Subcellular Mechanisms of Renal Dysfunction Induced by Chronic Exposure to Glyphosate and Nephrotoxic Metals
*Grainger Hall Board Room, room 5109
Apr 17 Christina Bergemann, PhD Candidate, ITEHP; Duke University: Investigating the Role of the Gut Microbiome and Intestinal Mucin on Mitochondrial Function and Chemical Susceptibility in C. elegans
May 16 Spring Symposium
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.