NIEHS Spotlight
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Calendar of Upcoming Events
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Sep 03 (Off-site event), NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. — NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, featuring Andrew Feinberg, M.D., addressing “The Epigenetic Basis of Common Human Disease,"
webcast,
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Sep 09–10, Rodbell Auditorium, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, webcast
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Sep 10, Rodbell Auditorium 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — Inflammation Faculty Seminar Series with Tomas Guilarte, Ph.D., exploring “TSPO in Brain Injury and Inflammation: A Biomarker With Therapeutic Potential”
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Sep 15–16 (Off-site event), James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — Workshop for the Development of a Framework for Environmental Health Science Language, webcast Sept. 15 and Sept. 16
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Sep 16, Rodbell Auditorium 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM), register to attend or view webcast
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Sep 17, Keystone 1003AB 9:00 a.m.–noon — Data Science and Keystone Symposium
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Sep 19 (Off-site event), Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment Annual Conference, register
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Sep 22–24, Rodbell Auditorium 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Annual Meeting: Communication Research in Environmental Health Sciences — Environmental Health Literacy, register to attend.
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Sep 26, Rodbell Auditorium 11:00 a.m.–noon — Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Phillip Beachy, Ph.D.
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Sep 26 (Off-site event), Environment Hall Field Auditorium at Duke University noon–1:30 p.m. — Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program Fall 2014 Seminar Series, featuring Nicole Kleinstreuer, Ph.D., discussing “Computational Toxicology Tools: Constructing and Evaluating an Adverse Outcome Pathway for Embryonic Vascular Disruption”
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Sep 29–30 (Off-site event), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina — ToxCast Data Summit: Beginning the dialogue about using new data to transform chemical safety evaluations, register to attend
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Science Notebook
Extramural Research
Extramural papers of the month/2014/9/dert/index.htm
- Perinatal DDT exposure linked to later risk of metabolic syndrome
- DDT alternative linked to transgenerational inheritance of disease
- Marine bacteria produce polybrominated diphenyl ethers
- Combined action of Srs2 and Exo1 enzymes helps maintain DNA
Intramural Research
Intramural papers of the month/2014/9/dir/index.htm
- NTP research finds low doses of inorganic arsenic cause lung tumors in male mice
- Maternal smoking linked to altered DNA in newborns
- Control of histone expression by phosphorylation of an mRNA processing protein
- Retinoic acid-related orphan receptors involved in novel signaling pathway
- Crystal structure of an important inositol phosphate kinase