ERC Seminars: OSHA Update Regarding Topics of Interest to Occupational and Environmental Medicine
May 5, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
FXB G12
Brenda Gordon, Area Director, US Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Tools for Environmental Decision Making
May 5, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 213
Jonathan I. Levy

Sponsored by HSPH Environmental Health Club

Channing/EER Works in Progress Seminar Series: Neuropsychological Function in School-Age Children with Low Concurrent Mercury Exposures 
May 6, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Pamela Surkan 

MIPS Seminar: Generating Variability at the Host-Pathogen Interface: Does TB Need to Change? 
May 6, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Sarah Fortune, MD, HSPH 

Environmental Health Colloquium: Complex Responses to Environmental Agents
May 8, 2008 3:30-4:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Leona Samson, PHD, MIT 

MIPS Seminar: Receptor Trafficking and Signaling in Endocytosis
May 13, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Quan Lu, PhD, HSPH 

MIPS Seminar: Regulatory Mechanisms of Mucosal Tolerance
May 27, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
George Kraal, PhD, Vrije University Medical Center, The Netherlands

MIPS Seminar: Role of Scavenger Receptor MARCO in Influenza Infection
June 3, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Sanjukta Ghosh, PhD, HSPH 

MIPS Seminar: Obesity and Asthma - Lessons from Animal Models
June 10, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Stephanie A. Shore, PhD, HSPH 

MIPS Seminar: Proteomics.  Next Stop is Systems Biology
June 17, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Alex Ivanov, PhD, HSPH 

Environmental Health Colloquium
June 19, 2008 3:30-4:30PM 
Building 1, Room 1302
Roberta White 

Prenatal maternal cortisol response predicts increased total IgE in pregnant women and their children enrolled in an inner-city asthma birth-cohort: Project ACCESSh
June 5, 2007  12:30-1:20PM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Rosalind Wright

Source Apportionment of Ambient PM10 and PM2.5 at Santiago, Chile: 2004
June 15, 2007 11:00AM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Hector Jorquera, Ph.D.
Luksic Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS / Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University 

Aerosol Studies on Diesel Exhaust Emissions Including Nano Particles
June 26, 2007 10:00AM
Landmark 4th Floor West 
David Kittleson, Ph.D. 

Occupational Asthma Following Exposure to Organic Acid Anhydrides: Experimental Studies in Animal Models
July 16, 2007 12:00-1:00 PM
Kresge 502 
Xing-Dong Zhang, Research Associate
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Passive Sampler for Aerosols
July 23, 2007 10:30 AM
Kresge 502 
David Leith (ScD HSPH '75)
Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health 

Progressive Development of Using Biomarkers for Assessing Non-Persistent Pesticide Exposures
September 12, 2007 12:00-1:00PM
Kresge 206
Chensheng (Alex) Lu
Assistant Professor Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Rollins School of Public Health Emory University  

Time: 10:30AM
Location: Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 414A 

High-Throughput Quantitation of Macrophage Phagocytosis and Killing
September 25, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Glen Deloid
Research Fellow, MIPS 

Cases from the Front: Workings of a Pediatric Environmental Health Center
September 26, 2007 12:30-2:00PM
Landmark 3rd Floor East, Conference Room 006
Alan Woolf, MD, MPH
Director, Pediatric Environmental Health Center, Children's Hospital, Boston
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School 

James Whittenberger Lecture: Environmental Genetics and Epigenetics
September 28, 2007 1:00-6:00PM
Kresge G1

Introduction to Epigenetics
Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, MPH

Genetics & Epigenetics Studies of Neruodevelopment in Children"
Robert Wright, MD, MPH

Epigenetics and Environmental Asthma
David Schwartz, MD, MPH
Chief of the Laboratory of Environmental Lung Disease at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisor for Environmental Health

Air pollution and Cardiovascular effects in Taipei, Taiwan
October 9, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Kai-Jen Chuang 

The Future of our NIEHS Center for Environmental Health (Environmental Health Colloquium)
October 11, 2007 3:30-4:30PM
Kresge 502
Douglas Dockery, Les Kobzik, and Jack Spengler 

New Faculty Reception
October 11, 2007 4:30-5:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Refreshments will be served 

Atherosclerotic Effects of Chronic Particulate Air Pollution
October 12, 2007 10:00-11:00AM
Building 1, Conference Room 1302
Barbara Hoffmann MPH, Dr. med.
Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology
Medical Faculty, University Hospital of Essen
University of Duisburg-Essen 

Current lead exposure and neurobehavior in 3-7 year old children in Chennai India; Circulating markers of endothelial function after short-term exposure to metal-rich particulate matter
October 19, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Ananya Roy and Shona Fang 

ERC Seminar
October 22, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, SP Techincal Research Institute of Sweden Technical University of Denmark Public Health Sciences, Karlstad University 

Neurotoxic effects of manganese exposures from industrial and natural sources: Effects in workers and communities
October 23, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Maryse Bouchard 

Airborne Lead Contamination at the Tar Creek Area of Oklahoma
October 24, 2007 12:30PM
Landmark Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 006
David Sullivan, MS
Director, Sullivan Environmental Consultants 

Biological Monitoring - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Exposure and Risk Assessment
October 31, 2007 1:00-2:00PM
FXB G11
Heiko U. Kafferlein, PhD
Head, Center of Toxicology
Research Institute of Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurances 

Meeting the Challenge of Our Aging Workforce
November 2, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
FXB G12
Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine 

Between Molecules and the Environment: Keeping Patients with Pancreatic Cancer in the Picture
November 6, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Marina Marinkovic

Between Molecules and the Environment: Keeping Patients with Pancreatic Cancer in the Picture
November 6, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
FXB G13
Miquel Porta Professor Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 

Who is more vulnerable to die from ozone air pollution?
November 6, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Mercedes Medina-Ramon

Environmental Health Colloquium
November 8, 2007 3:30-4:30PM
Kresge Building, Room 502
John Godleski, MD - Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Core in the NIEHS
Robert Wright, MD - Neuroepidemiology and Neuroscience Core in the NIEHS Center 

Considerations of Acute and Chronic Effects of Chlorine Gas Exposure
November 9, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge Building, Room 502
Kenneth Spaeth and Karen Huyck

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Acute Lung Injury
November 13, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Tom Martin
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Medicine and Director, Primary and Specialty Medicine Service Line

Biometals in Alzheimer's Disease
November 14, 2007 12:30-2:00PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Lee Goldstein
Director, Molecular Aging & Development Laboratory
Director, Center for Biometals
Boston University School of Medicine 

Dioxins and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Review; Circumstances of Occupational Same-level Falls and Risk of Wrist, Ankle and Hip Fracture in Women over 45 Years of Age
November 16, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
FXB G12
Olivier Humblet and Santosh Verma 

Fate of Inhaled Particles Deposited on Lung Surfaces - Particle-Cell Interactions and Cell-Cell Interactions
November 20, 2007 9:30-10:20AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Peter Gehr
Chairman, Institute of Anatomy 

Use of Receiver Operator Characteristic Curves to Evaluate Environmental Regulatory Thresholds
November 20, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Jim Shine  

Prenatal and Early Postnatal Exposures and Asthma Risk--How?
November 27, 2007 9:30-10:20AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Rachel L. Miller
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine 

Control of Neutrophil Release: Implications for Inflammatory Disease
November 29, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Benjamin T. Suratt  

Neuroimaging and Neurotoxicologic Research
December 3, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Roberta White
Chair, Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health 

Networks and Stochastics in Gene Expression Analysis
December 4, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
John Quackenbush 

Treatment of Severe Carbon Monoxide Poisening Using a Portable Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber in a Remote Setting
December 7, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Philip Parks

Developing multidisciplinary models to investigate occupational laryngeal cancer
December 10, 2007 12:00PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Omur Cinar Elci
Associate Professor
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Division of Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Impact of Occupational Exposure to Solvents During Pregnancy on Intrauterine Development: a Pregnancy Cohort Study in Brittany, France
December 10, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Sylvaine Cordier 

Inhaling Cationic Aerosols for the Control & Treatment of Airborne Infectious Disease
December 11, 2007 9:30-10:20AM
Building 1, Room 1302
David Edwards
Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering 

Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics: The New Generation of Quantitative Research in Environmental Health (Environmental Health Colloquium)
December 13, 2007 3:00-4:00PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Louise Ryan, Xihong Lin, Winston Hide, Deanne Taylor
Department of Biostatistics   

EOME Research Seminar
December 14, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Krishna Asundi and Amar Mehta

Environmental Challenges to Fertility and Pregnancy: The Role of Modern Chemicals
December 14, 2007 12:45-1:45PM
Kresge G3
Russ Hauser

Stiffness Gradient Effects on Lung Fibroblast Accumulation and Differentiation
December 18, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Fei Liu 

Bystander Risk Assessment for Fumigants
December 18, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Richard Reiss
Principal Scientist
Exponent

Muscarinic Receptors Regulate Eosinophil Interactions with Airway Nerves
December 19, 2007 10:00-11:00AM
HSPH Building I, Room 1302
Norah Verbout, Postdoctoral Candidate
Oregon Health and Sciences University

Fish, Mercury, and Child Neurodevelopment: Results from Project Viva
January 8, 2008 12:30-2:00PM
Landmark Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 006
Emily Oken
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care  

Hair Product Use and Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women; The Effect of Job Status and Job Demands on Hypertension in and Industrial Setting
January 11, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Tamara James-Todd and Jane Clougherty 

ERC Seminar
January 14, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
David Parker 

Lung-Liver Axis During Pneumonia
January 15, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Lee Quinton

The Effect of Prenatal Allergen Exposure on Maternal and Cord Blood Immune Response
January 15, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Junenette Peters 

Association of Black Carbon with Cognition among Children in a Prospective Birth Cohort Study; The Effect of Prenatal Allergen Exposure on Maternal and Cord Blood Immune Response
January 18, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Junenette Peters and Shakira Franco Suglia

Regulation of T Cell Responses in the Cardiovascular System
January 22, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Andrew Lichtman

Vitamin D in the Development and Control of Asthma
January 29, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Augusto Litonjua

Occupational and Environmental Exposures and Mortality in the Trucking Industry Particle Study
January 29, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Jaime Hart

Grand Rounds: Methicillin Resistant Stapholococcus Aureus (MRSA) in the Community - A 2008 Update
February 1, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G2
Philip D. Parks and John L. Brusch

Promoting Environmental Health via Sustainable Remediation Technologies for Water and Soil Media
February 1, 2008 11:30-2:30PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Konstantinos C. Makris

Tort Litigation as Preventive Medicine: Childhood Lead Poisoning as a Case Study
February 4, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Neil Leifer, Esq.
Partner at Thornton & Naumes, LLP, Boston, MA 

EOME Research Seminar
Indoor Airborne VOC Exposue and Symptoms of Asthma and Allergy Among Swedish Children - Hyunok Choi
Gene by Environment Interactions Predicting Serum Inflammatory Markers in the Normative Aging Study - Elissa Wilker
February 8, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502

ERC Seminar
Can Transparency Help Improve Health Outcomes?
February 11, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
David Weil 

Surveying Fibroblast Behaviors Across Three Log Orders of Substrate Stiffness
February 12, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Justin Mih 

Environmental Health Colloquium
Water and Health: What are the links and what needs to be done?
February 13, 2008 12:30-1:30PM
Kresge G3
John Briscoe, PhD
Senior Water Advisor and Country Director for Brazil
The World Bank 

Bioinformatics Core Seminar
In Silico Prediction of the Toxicologic Mechanisms of the Agricultural Fungicide Propiconazole using MetaDrug
February 14, 2008 2:00-3:00PM
HSPH Building 2, Room 426
Deanne Taylor 

ERC Grand Rounds
Occupational Health Issues and Considerations for Laboratories Handling Pathogens (Biosafety Levels I-IV)
February 14, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G2
Kenneth R. Spaeth (presenter) and Thomas H. Winters (discussant)

GEOSS and Environmental Health; US Environmental Protection Agency's Role
February 15 2008 1:00-2:00PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Edward (Ed) P. Washburn
Multimedia Team Leader and Co-Chair of EPA GEOSS Coordinating Committee
US EPA, Office of Research & Development & Office of Science Policy 

Nutrition, Acute Stress Resistance and Longevity
February 19 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
James R. Mitchell

Developing an In Vivo Model to Evaluate the Pulmonary Toxicity of Nanoparticles: Problems and Progress
February 19 2008 10:30-11:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Tina Sager,
Postdoctoral Candidate
Univ. of West Virginia, Morgantown

EOME Research Seminar
Lead Exposure and Serum Homocysteine in Older Men: A Mechanism of Neurotoxicity and Vascular Toxicity? ;Arrhythmia Events in Boilermaker Construction Workers Exposed to Metal-Rich Fine Particles
February 22, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Jennifer Weuve and Jennifer Cavallari 

ERC Grand Rounds
Recurrent Abdominal Pain in a Painter: Occult Lead Poisening Strikes Again
February 29, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G2
Philip Parks (presenter) and Howard Hu (discussant)

Networks and Stochastics in Gene Expression Analysis
March 4, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
John Quackenbush 

Heart Rate Variability in SAPALDIA: Associations with Air
Pollution and Effect of Physical Activity in Normal Weight and Obese Subjects
March 4, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Denise Felber Dietrich
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland  

EOME Research Seminar: Gene-Environment Interactions - Apoptosis Gene Polymorphisms, Smoking and the Risk of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
March 7, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Monica Ter-Minassian  

ERC Seminar: Work, Health and Well-being: New Research Opportunities at HSPH
March 10, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
Glorian Sorensen

Exposure Assessment Tools for Physical Risk Factors for MSDs in VDT workers
March 11, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Jack Dennerlein, Che-Hsu (Joe) Chang, and Krishna Asundi

Environmental Health Colloquium:Progress in the Application of Germicidal Ultraviolet Room Air Disinfection
March 13, 2008 3:30-4:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Edward Nardell 

ERC Grand Rounds: Dyspnea in a 30 Year Old Mason
March 14 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G2
Kenneth R. Spaeth (presenter) and William S. Beckett (discussant) 

Metals Core Seminar (co-sponsored by the HSPH Children's Center for Environmental Health)
The Olfactory Vector Hypothesis and Parkinson's Disease
March 21, 2008 12:30-1:30PM
Landmark 3rd Floor East, Room 006
Richard L. Doty 

An Epidemiological Study of the Relationship between Occupational Exposure and Gonarthrosis
March 21, 2008 1:30-2:30PM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
Ilias Vrezas, MBE, Dr. med.
Occupational Medicine Resident Physician
Dusseldorf, Germany

Channing/EER Works-in-Progress Seminar Series: Infectious Disease in a Warming World: How Weather Influenced West Nile Virus in the United States (2001-2005)
March 25, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Murray Mittleman

ERC Seminar- Solving Problems Through NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations
March 31, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G12
Ayodele Adebayo 

Grand Rounds: Cardiopulmonary Complications of Asbestosis - Progressive Shortness of Breath in a Shipyard Worker
April 4, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G2
Aaron Thompson (presenter) and David C. Christiani (discussant)

ERC Seminar: The State of the U.S. Labor Movement - A Comparative Perspective
April 7, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G12
Elaine Bernard 

EER/Channing Works in Progress Seminar: Why Peaks Matter: Linking Discrete Responses, to Exposure Distributions - A New Dose Metric
April 8, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Thomas Smith 

The Male Predicament: The Role of the Environment
April 10, 2008 12:00-1:30PM
HSPH, Kresge 502
Theo Colborn, PhD (author of Our Stolen Future)
[Registration closed]

Improving Near-Miss and Case-Crossover Designs to Reduce Risk Factors for Traumatic Injuries (Thesis Defense)
April 11, 2008 1:00PM
FXB G-11
Ilana Lina Lander

Joint Seminar Environmental Statistics and Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program: Modeling Intra-urban Variation in Air Pollution Exposure to Assess Effects on Cardiovascular Health
April 11, 2008 12:30-1:30PM
HSPH, Building 2, Room 426 (Biostatistics Conference Room)
Adam Szpiro, PhD, University of Washington

MIPS Seminar: Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Type 2 Diabetes: Recent Developments and Future Directions
April 15, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, HSPH 

Mortality Risk from Ambient and Work Exposures in Two Working Populations (Thesis Defense)
April 16, 2008 3:00-5:00PM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Jaime Hart

Environmental Health Colloquium: The Blue Death: The Past, Present and Future of the Water We Drink
April 17, 2008 12:30-1:30PM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Robert Morris, MD, PhD

MIPS Seminar: Selective Transduction of Sustained Mechanical Loading in Bronchial Epithelial Cells
April 22, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Daniel J. Tschumperlin, PhD, HSPH

MIPS Seminar: Prenatal and Early Postnatal Exposures and Asthma Risk - How?
April 29, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302