Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2018

Society of Toxicology 2018 awards recognize Birnbaum, Ramaiahgari

SOT awardees for 2018 include NIEHS and National Toxicology Program Director Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., and NTP postdoc Sreenivasa Ramaiahgari, Ph.D.

Angela Gutierrez honored with 2017 Wetterhahn Award

The Superfund Research Program named Angela Gutierrez, from the University of Kentucky, as this year’s Wetterhahn Memorial Award winner.

Calendar

Jan
08

Signal Transduction Laboratory Seminar Series presents 'How to Turn Them On and Off: Regulation of Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells in Health and Disease'
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Location: Room F193
Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): David Sullivan, Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School

Jan
09

The NIEHS Receptor Mechanisms Discussion Group presents “Morphine Withdrawal Alters Cell Excitability and Synaptic Transmission in the Extended Amygdala”
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Location: Lake View Conference Room
Time: Noon-1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Zoe McElligott, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jan
10-11

The Promise of Genome Editing Tools to Advance Environmental Health Research — an Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions Workshop presented by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Location: 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, D.C., and webcast

Jan
12

NIEHS Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory presents “Targeting Obesity for Endometrial Cancer Treatment”
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Location: Rodbell A
Time: 11:00 a.m.-Noon
Speaker(s): Victoria Bae-Jump, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jan
16

NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Seminar Series presents Michael Snyder, Ph.D., from Stanford University
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 11:00 a.m.-Noon

Jan
19

Triangle Global Health Consortium Career Day
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
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Jan
24

National Toxicology Program Peer Review of the Draft Report on Carcinogens Monograph on Antimony Trioxide
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Jan
24

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Non-Targeted Environmental Exposomics: New Approaches for Identifying Organic Pollutants Relevant to Ecological and Human Exposure”
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Location: Keystone 1003AB
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): P. Lee Ferguson, Ph.D., from Duke University

Jan
25

Duke University Program in Environmental Health and Toxicology presents Matt Longley, Ph.D., from NIEHS, discussing “Single-molecule Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Replication”
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Location: Duke University Environment Hall, Field Auditorium
Time: 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
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Jan
30

NIEHS Exposure Science and the Exposome Webinar Series presents “Integrating Spatial Data with Machine Learning to Predict Health-related Behaviors in Context”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Marta Jankowska, Ph.D., from the University of California, San Diego
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