Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2020

Children receive gifts through NIEHS Angel Tree

gifts around the tree in the Keystone building

Employees donated bikes, toys, and other items, which were distributed to local families by the Salvation Army of Durham.

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Diversity Speaker Series addresses Native American health challenges

The National Toxicology Program’s Trey Saddler described how problems such as poor air and water quality affect tribal communities.

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Jan
10

NIEHS Office of Data Science presents “Chemmaps.com, Tox21BodyMap and InterPred: Webtools to Explore the Tox21 Data”
Event Details

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Location: Building 101, Room F193
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Alexandre Borrel, Ph.D., NIEHS Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch

Jan
16

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Early Life Determinants of Psychiatric Disorders”
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Location: Keystone Building, Room 1003AB
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Alan Brown, M.D., Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute

Jan
21

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Validating Alternative Methods Communities of Practice Webinar on “Use of Animal-free Affinity Reagents”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register for the webinar

Jan
24

The Society of Toxicology Carcinogenesis Specialty Section and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals International Science Consortium present “Mechanistic Assessment of Carcinogenicity”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Registration and more information

Jan
24

The University of North Carolina Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility presents “Environmental Regulation of the Estrogen Response in Single Living Cells”
Event Details

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Location: 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Time: noon – 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Joseph Rodriguez, Ph.D., from the NIEHS Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory
Learn more

Jan
27-28

National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop on “Emerging Technologies to Advance Research and Decisions on the Environmental Health Effects of Microplastics”
Event Details

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Location: Keck Center, Room 100, 500 5th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Agenda, registration, and more information

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