Environmental Factor Newsletter, October 2020

COVID-19 safety plan brought all hands on deck at NIEHS

Behind-the-scenes efforts ensured employees can return safely to work and have resulted in zero on-site transmissions.

Calendar

Oct
08

NIEHS Women’s Health Awareness RealTalk With the Experts series presents “Self-Advocacy Starts With You: Breast Cancer 101”
Event Details

Location: Zoom
Time: 6:30-7:45 p.m.
Speaker(s): Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, M.D., and Jennifer Plichta, M.D., from Duke University; Marissa Howard-McNatt, M.D., from Wake Forest School of Medicine
Details and link to register

Oct
09

NIEHS Reproductive Developmental Biology Lab presents “Single-cell-based Characterization of Developmental Processes Using Dynamic Spanning Forests”
Event Details

Location: Zoom
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Benedict Anchang, Ph.D., NIEHS Stadtman investigator, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch
Zoom Meeting ID: 160 750 5223; Passcode: 668211

Oct
13

NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Series presents “Nuclear Receptors, Circadian Rhythms, and Metabolism”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Mitchell Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Join us on Zoom

Oct
15

“Application of animal-free antibodies” webinar, presented by the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods and others
Event Details

Location: Webinar
Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Giulio Russo, Ph.D., from Abcalis, will speak on the replacement of animal serum-derived secondary antibodies with animal-free multiclonal antibodies. Charu Chandrasekera, Ph.D., from the Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods, will provide an in-depth look at her experience replacing animal-derived affinity reagents in the laboratory.
Register to attend

Oct
21

Superfund Research Program Progress in Research Webinar Part 1: Metals
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Registration, speakers, and more

Oct
30

Duke University Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program presents “Marine Medicine Symposium: Oceans and Human Health”
Event Details

Location: Online
Time: 9:00 a.m.-2:55 p.m.
Speakers, registration, and more

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