2020-2021 CURES Seminar Series

ALL CURES Seminars for the 2020-2021 season will be held in a virtual format via Zoom and will take place on Thursdays from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM. 

Click the link on each speaker's name to join the seminar. Have questions? Please contact marshamoore@wayne.edu.

 
October Guest Speaker Seminar Series Title
22 Lance A. Waller, Ph.D., Emory University "Mapping Inequity: "The Geography of Environmental Justice"
29 Heidi Lempradl, Ph.D., Van Andel Institute " piRNAs Mediate Intergenerational Inheritance of Metabolic State"
November    
19

Leonardo Trasande, Ph.D., NYU Langone - View a recording here

"Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: New Knowledge of Health Effects and Policy Implications"
December    
10

Linda H. Nie, Ph.D., Purdue University - View a recording here

"Quantification of Metals and Trace Elements in Human Body and Small Animals in Vivo"
17

Wanqing Liu, Ph.D., WSU and Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow, HFHS - View a recording here

"The Role of Heavy Metals in Fatty Liver Disease"
January    
21

Rosemarie De La Rosa, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco - View a recording here

"Assessing Cumulative Risk From Multiple Environmental and Psychosocial Stressors"
28

Allen Rosenspire, Ph.D., Wayne State University - View a recording here

"The Mercury / Autoimmunity Connection: New Perspectives"
February    
18 Martin Wagner, PhD., Norwegian University of Science and Technology "The Human Health Aspects of Plastic Chemicals and Nanoplastics"
March    
18

Gwen W. Collman, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - View a recording here 

"Current Advances and Opportunities in Environmental Health Research: A View from NIEHS"
25

Steve Georas, M.D., University of Rochester Medical Center - View a recording here

"Environmental Exposures and the Asthma Epidemic: Airway Epithelial Cells at the Frontline".  
April    
1 Yuan He, Ph.D., WSU Biochemistry "Inflammasome: Activation Mechanisms and Role in Inflammation"
8 Jacklyn Goodrich, Ph.D., University of Michigan "The Role of Early Life Exposures and Epigenetics in Children's Health"
May    
6 Megan M. Niedzwiecki, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  "Metabolomic Profiling of the Pregnancy Exposome in Two Urban Cohorts"
13 Moh H. Malek, Ph.D., Wayne State University "Prenatal Exposure to Arsenic Adversely Affects Offspring Skeletal Muscle Function"
20 John Wise, Sr. Ph.D., University of Louisville "Of Whales and Men, Insights into the Mechanisms of Chromate Carcinogenesis from a One Environmental Health Perspective"

 

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