Environmental Factor Newsletter, November 2016

Children’s Environmental Health Network awards Balbus

NIEHS Senior Advisor for Public Health John Balbus, M.D., received the CEHN Carol Stroebel Health Policy Award at an Oct. 13 ceremony.

Cushman takes on new NIEHS neurobehavioral research facility

Jesse Cushman, Ph.D., leads the new NIEHS Neurobehavioral Core Laboratory, a resource for in-house researchers and trainees.

Calendar

Nov
01

North Carolina State University (NCSU) Biological Sciences' Toxicology Program Seminar presents “Evaluation of 4-Methylcyclohexanemethanol Developmental Toxicity, the Primary Chemical in the Elk River Spill”
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Location: NCSU Centennial Campus, Toxicology Building Auditorium, Room 2104
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Chad Blystone, Ph.D., from the National Toxicology Program

Nov
01

NIEHS 50th Anniversary Celebration
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – noon
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Nov
02

Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture presents Jeffrey Gordon, M.D., from Washington University in St. Louis, discussing “Childhood Undernutrition and Gut Microbiota Immaturity: Human Development Viewed From a Microbial Perspective”
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon

Nov
03-04

NIEHS Science Days
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Location: Building 101, Rodbell Auditorium

Nov
18

Office of the Director seminar with Mike Taylor, Ph.D., from WinTech LLC, speaking on “Methodology Review of Environmental Health Hazard Assessments and Enhanced Data Utilization for Predictive Toxicology and/or Exposome Research.”
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Nov
29

Wetterhahn Awardee Seminar
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Nishad Jayasundara, Ph.D., from Duke University Superfund Research Center

Nov
30

“New Tools for Investigating Chemicals in Consumer Products” hosted by the National Toxicology Program Office of Health Assessment and Translation
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Location: Keystone Building 1003AB
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Katherine Phillips, Ph.D.; Kristin Isaacs, Ph.D.; and Kathie Dionisio, Sc.D.; from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Research Laboratory

Dec
05-08

NIEHS Environmental Health Science Fest
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Location: Durham Convention Center
More information, including agenda and free registration

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