Environmental Factor Newsletter, August 2022

Links between pandemic stress, brain circuitry explored during lecture

Renowned neuroscientist Amy Arnsten, Ph.D., delivered the 2022 NIEHS Martin Rodbell Lecture.

Burning plastic can affect air quality, public health

Researchers discuss implementation projects and tools used to examine contaminants, and how they work to reduce exposures.

NIEHS trainee finds her calling as a physician-researcher

Sherice Simpson, a medical student, gains valuable career experience in biomedical research at NIEHS through NIH-wide program.

Ashley Phoenix (top left), Sharonda Lovett (top right) and Kiran Kelly-Rajan (bottom)

Interns explain their research — in three minutes or less

They participated in the NIEHS “Big Picture, Small Talk” competition in July.

Fleshing out a fungal toxin’s role in liver cancer

NIEHS grantee John Groopman, Ph.D., studies the biological effects of aflatoxin, a potent carcinogen, with the goal of disease prevention.

Calendar

July-Aug
29-26

NIH Funding Opportunity: Research Coordinating Center to Support Climate Change and Health Community of Practice
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Aug
01-04

Children’s Environmental Health: A National Academies Workshop on Future Priorities for Environmental Health Sciences
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Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
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Aug
05

NIEHS Webinar Series — Accelerating Precision Environmental Health: Demonstrating the Value of the Exposome, Part 2. Biological Responses and Impact on Health and Disease
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Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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Aug
10

NIEHS Early-Stage Investigators Webinar Series, Session Seven
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Location: Online
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Angelico Mendy, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, and Shelly Buffington, Ph.D., University of Texas. Event hosted by Maria José Rosa, Dr.P.H., and Douglas Walker, Ph.D., EHS Core Center at Mount Sinai.

Aug
12

NIEHS Webinar Series — Accelerating Precision Environmental Health: Demonstrating the Value of the Exposome, Part 3. Future of Clinical and Prevention Trials, Cohorts and Epidemiology
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Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration available Aug. 6

Aug
19

NIEHS Webinar Series — Accelerating Precision Environmental Health: Demonstrating the Value of the Exposome, Part 4. Social and Societal Impacts
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Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration available Aug. 13

Aug
24-25

NIEHS Workshop — Complex Exposures in Breast Cancer: Unraveling the Role of Environmental Mixtures
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Location: Online
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Multiple speakers
Preregistration required

Aug
26

NIEHS Webinar Series — Accelerating Precision Environmental Health: Demonstrating the Value of the Exposome, Part 5. Data Infrastructure and Data Analytics
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Location: Online
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration available Aug. 20

Aug
31

NIEHS Worker Training Program: Looking Back at COVID and Planning Ahead for Future Threats
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Location: Online
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Sharon Beard, NIEHS Worker Training Program; Chris Brown, Ph.D., CDC Center for Preparedness and Response; Michael Flynn, NIOSH; and Amy Liebman, Migrant Clinicians Network
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