Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2019

portrait of Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D.

Motsinger-Reif takes biostats and computational biology lead

Internationally recognized statistical geneticist will meet big data challenges with innovative approaches.

Epidemiologist White moves into tenure-track role

A rising star and two-time NIEHS fellow plans to dig deep in the hunt for environmental risk factors in breast cancer.

Calendar

Jan
08

NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Series presents “Genes, Environment, Autism, and Precision Public Health: At the Nexus of Multi-Factor Etiology and Environmental Justice,' hosted by Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director, NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program
Event Details

Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., from the University of California, Davis

Jan
15-16

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions Workshop presents “Toward Understanding the Interplay of Environmental Stressors, Infectious Disease, and Human Health”
Event Details

Location: The NASEM Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001

Jan
17

Duke University Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program Spring Seminar Series presents “Characterizing Environmental Health Literacy Related to Fish Consumption Advisories: Knowledge and Beliefs of Informal Educators in a Southeastern State”
Event Details

Location: Field Auditorium, Grainger Hall, Duke University
Speaker(s): Kathleen Gray, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Jan
22

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Validating Alternative Methods Communities of Practice Webinar: “Nonanimal Approaches for Inhalation Toxicity Testing”
Event Details

Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Jan
31

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series
Event Details

Location: Keystone 1003AB
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, University of California, Berkeley

Feb
01

Triangle Global Health Consortium Career Day
Event Details

Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
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