NIEHS Spotlight
Inside the Institute
Calendar of Upcoming Events
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Dec 02, Building 101, Room D250, 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. — Amanda MacLeod, M.D., from Duke University School of Medicine, speaking on “Mechanisms of UV-induced Immunosuppression in the Skin,” hosted by Jennifer Martinez, Ph.D.
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Dec 02–04 (Off-site event), Bethesda, Maryland — Tribal Ecological Knowledge Workshop and training sessions.
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Dec 02, Rodbell Auditorium 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors meeting, register to attend in person or via webcast
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Dec 03, (webinar), 11:00 a.m.–noon — In Vitro to In Vivo Extrapolation for High Throughput Prioritization and Decision Making, register to attend
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Dec 04, Rodbell Auditorium 9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. — Joaquin Espinosa, Ph.D., from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, speaking on "Taming the p53 Network for Effective Cancer Therapies," hosted by Thuy-Ai Nguyen, Ph.D., and Mike Resnick, Ph.D.
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Dec 07, Rodbell C 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. — Data Science Seminar Series presents Praveen Sethupathy, from University of North Carolina School of Medicine, discussing “Discoveries From Functional Genomics: Non-coding RNAs as Mechanistic Links Between Environment and Human Physiology”
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Dec 09, (webinar), 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — NIEHS-EPA Children's Environmental Health Research Centers Webinar on Food and Children's Health, featuring Asa Bradman, Ph.D., from the University of California, Berkeley; Anne Hoen, Ph.D., from Dartmouth College; Karen Peterson, D.Sc., from the University of Michigan; and discussion leader Laura Anderko, Ph.D., R.N., from Georgetown University, register
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Dec 14, (webinar), 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. — NIEHS Partnerships for Environmental Public Health presents “Meet the Editors,” featuring editors in chief Sally Darney, Ph.D., of Environmental Health Perspectives; Craig Slatin, Sc.D., of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy; and John Allegrante, Ph.D., of Health Education and Behavior, registration is required
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Dec 17, Rodbell Auditorium 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. — National Toxicology Program Peer Review of the Draft RoC Monograph on Selected Viruses, register to attend in person or via webcast
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Science Notebook
Extramural Research
Extramural papers of the month/2015/12/dert/index.htm
- Green office environments linked with higher cognitive function
- Lead exposure can cause multigenerational epigenetic changes
- Maternal and fetal exposure to parabens
- Prenatal exposure to PBDEs associated with later attention problems
Intramural Research
Intramural papers of the month/2015/12/dir/index.htm
- NTP finds toxicity associated with organophosphorus flame retardants
- High resolution structure of the APE1-DNA complex
- Role of a T-type Ca2+ channel in fertility
- Mechanism of nuclear uptake of a DNA repair scaffold protein revealed
- Refined mining of GWAS data reveals new insights into airway disease