Two ITEHP students were invited to present on their research at the 13th International Conference on Environmental Mutagens in Ottawa, Canada this week! Tess Leuthner, PhD (ITEHP class of ’22), presented her work entitled, “Resistance of mitochondrial DNA to cadmium and Aflatoxin B1-induced germline mutations over 50 generations of exposure […]
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Kirsten Overdahl successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled, “Characterizing Exposures and In Vitro Effects of Azobenzene Disperse Dyes in the Indoor Environment”, on October 27, 2021. Kirsten was co-advised during her time at Duke by P. Lee Ferguson, PhD, and Heather Stapleton, PhD. Having earned her PhD in Environment and […]
We invite HBCU students and alumni interested in ITEHP to The Duke University IDEALS Office HBCU Recruitment Event this Thursday, September 23, 2021, from 4-6 pm Eastern! This virtual event will introduce talented prospective applicants to Duke School of Medicine PhD programs and support mechanisms. (Being interdisciplinary in nature, ITEHP […]
Larisa Gearhart-Serna presented her PhD dissertation defense, “Investigation of the Role of Environmental Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Breast Cancer”, on July 19, 2021. Having successfully defended and earning her PhD in Pathology and her ITEHP certificate, Dr. Gearhart-Serna is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Feinberg […]
Marissa Guttenberg, rising fourth-year ITEHP student, recently was selected for the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Science Communications Training Award. This award is the result of a new collaboration between SOT and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, focusing on enhancing SOT members’ ability to effectively […]
Two ITEHP students recently defended their dissertations: Matthew Ruis “Using in vitro and in vivo Placental Models to Investigate the Localization of Brominated Flame Retardants and Implications for Thyroid Hormone Homeostasis” Advisor: Heather Stapleton Rose Schrott “The Effects of Cannabis sativa on the Sperm Epigenome” Advisor: Susan Murphy Congratulations, Matthew […]
The Graduate School just launched a new interactive guide to help students better understand the options, resources, and processes for addressing concerns of harassment, discrimination, and related problems. This resource is based on the amazing work that ITEHP student, Kirsten Overdahl, completed in Summer 2020, where she developed an interactive […]
Tess Leuthner, sixth-year ITEHP student in the Meyer lab, has been selected by The Graduate School to receive the 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. A committee of graduate deans, faculty, and graduate students selected Leuthner from a highly competitive pool of nominees to receive this award, recognizing her […]
As a member of the Bass Connections team “Bioremediation of Plastic Pollution to Conserve Marine Biodiversity,” Zoie Diana, ITEHP student and PhD student in Marine Science & Conservation, and her colleagues recently published an article entitled, “Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution” in Environment International. This article reviewed 52 […]
Rose Schrott, ITEHP trainee, received the First Place Award for Trainee Talks on November 9th for her presentation at the Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society of North Carolina’s (GEMS-NC) Fall 2020 Meeting! Her winning presentation was entitled “Let’s Be Blunt: Paternal Cannabis Smoke Extract Exposure in Rats Induces Heritable Epigenetic […]
We are excited to welcome five new ITEHP students this fall! Christina Bergemann has her bachelor’s in Environmental Science and has been working for the past two years in the Meyer lab investigating how preconception exposure to toxicants alters mitochondrial function in offspring Beverly deSouza is joining us after graduating […]
Paige Varner, a fifth-year ITEHP student pursuing her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently selected as a winner of the NIEHS Superfund Research Program’s K.C. Donnelly Externship Award. Through the K.C. Donnelly externship, Varner will be spending 3 months at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in Dr. Joshua […]
Richard Di Giulio, PhD, ITEHP Director, is also the Duke University Superfund Research Center (DUSRC) Director. He is the lead PI of a DUSCRC project focused on understanding the mechanisms and consequences of killifish adaptations to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Work performed by the Di Giulio lab was recently featured […]
ITEHP student, Matthew Ruis, was recently honored as a recipient of the 2020 Nicholas School Dean’s Award for Best Graduate Student Manuscript! Dean Toddi Steelman selected the top three papers published by Duke Nicholas School of the Environment students over the past year. Ruis was selected for his peer-reviewed paper, […]
Congratulations to ITEHP’s own Sam Hall and Kirsten Overdahl for being selected as recipients of the 2019 Pat McClellan-Green Student Travel Award! Each year, only 2-4 awards are given to eligible student members of CSETAC to fund travel to the annual SETAC North American Meeting, so we are thrilled to […]