Environmental Factor Newsletter, October 2019

New technique reveals how mitochondria respond to exposures

NIEHS grantees developed a tool that showed how certain exposures in mitochondria led to damage to the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres.

Anticancer protein is linked to severity of viral disease in infants

The p53 tumor suppressor protein — well known as the guardian of the genome — may also play a more obscure role guarding immune integrity.

Extramural papers of the month /2019/10/papers/dert/index.htm

Intramural papers of the month /2019/10/papers/dir/index.htm

Calendar

Oct
03

Superfund Research Program Risk e-Learning Webinar Series presents Bioremediation — Expanding the Toolbox Session II: Novel Omics Approaches
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Presentation abstracts and link to register

Oct
04

Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory Seminar Series presents “Role of RNA Modifications in Germ Cell Differentiation”
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Location: Building 101 Room D450
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Marcos Morgan, Ph.D., Stadtman Investigator, NIEHS Male Reproduction and RNA Biology Group

Oct
04

Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory Training Advisory Committee Fellows Invited Guest Lecture presents "Structural Assembly and Reaction Chemistry of DNA Replisomes"
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Location: Building 101, F193
Time: 3:00 p.m –
Speaker(s): Wei Yang, Ph.D., from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Oct
07

North Carolina Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting: “Dealing with the Complexity of Real Life: Combined Exposures and Mixtures”
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Location: US EPA Research Triangle Park campus
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
More information, including agenda and registration

Oct
10

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Development of a Training Program on Opioids and the Workplace”
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Location: Keystone Building Room 1003AB
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Jonathan Rosen, National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training

Oct
11

Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory presents “Cell Fate Decisions in the Development of Sex Ducts”
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Location: Building 101 Room D450
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Fei Zhao, Ph.D., from the NIEHS Reproductive and Developmental Biology Group

Oct
11

Superfund Research Program Risk e-Learning Webinar Series presents Bioremediation — Expanding the Toolbox Session III: Emerging Opportunities
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
More information and link to register

Oct
21

NIEHS Superfund Research Program Wetterhahn Lecture on “Environmental PPARy gamma Ligands That May Not Be So Brite!”
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Location: Keystone Building Room 1003AB
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Stephanie Kim, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Oct
23-24

Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative 2019 Summit on “PFAS: Integrating Science and Solutions in NC”
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Location: NC Biotech Center
Times, agenda, registration, and more information

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