Environmental Factor Newsletter, November 2018

North Carolina researchers gathered to discuss a group of chemicals called PFAS that contaminate some of the state’s drinking water.

The state of opioid-related hazards in the workplace was the focus of the 2018 Worker Training Program workshop at NIEHS.

After Hurricane Florence devastated southeastern North Carolina, NIEHS grantees hit the ground running to test for contaminants.

Nov
07

New Approaches for Characterizing Mitochondrial Signaling in Response to Environmental Stress Grantee Meeting
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Nov
09

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health webinar, “E-Waste and Environmental Health”
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Location: Webinar
Time: noon – 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Stephani Kim, Ph.D., from NIEHS; Aimin Chen, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Cincinnati; Julius Fobil, Dr.P.H., from the University of Ghana; and moderator Brittany Trottier from NIEHS
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Nov
09

NIEHS Scholars Connect Program Fall Presentation, “Elevator Pitch: Overview of Research Work”
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Nov
13

Hans L. Falk Memorial Lecture on “Microglia as Purveyors of Sex Differences in Brain Development and Adult Behavior”
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Nov
26

PROTECT (Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats) webinar, “Without Consent: Chemical Exposures and Our Health”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Tracey Woodruff, Ph.D., from University of California at San Francisco
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Nov
27

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Epigenomic Reprogramming in Response to an Environmental Toxicant”
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Dec
04

Distinguished Lecture Series on “A New Role for Amino Acid Metabolism in Macrophage Biology
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