Environmental Factor Newsletter, December 2019

NIEHS honors military veterans with celebration, charity drive

The event was marked by powerful speeches — and miniature therapy horses.

Unique partnership improves care for people with limb loss

NIEHS biologist Stella Sieber and Duke nurse Nancy Payne recount the challenges of recovering from limb loss for Diversity Speaker Series.

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Dec
06

Duke University Program in Environmental Health and Toxicology Fall Seminar Series presents, “Using Zebrafish as a Model to Investigate the Potential Threat of Nanoplastics to Aquatic Species”
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Location: Duke University Levine Science Research Center, Love Auditorium B101, 308 Research Drive, Durham, North Carolina
Time: 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Rafael Trevisan, Ph.D., Duke University
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Dec
09

Signal Transduction Laboratory Seminar Series presents "Understanding and Targeting SIRT2 for Treating Cancer"
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Location: NIEHS Building 101, Room F193
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Hening Lin, Ph.D., Cornell University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Dec
10

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility and the Children's Research Institute present "Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure in Pregnancy in Association with Ultrasound and Delivery Measures of Fetal Growth"
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Location: UNC Bioinformatics Building Room 1131, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Kelly Ferguson, Ph.D., head of the NIEHS Perinatal and Early Life Epidemiology Group
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Dec
12

National Toxicology Program (NTP) Peer Review of the Draft NTP Technical Reports on the Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of 2-Hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone and Perfluorooctanoic Acid
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Location: Webcast
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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