Environmental Health Colloquium
June 24, 2009 3:30-4:30PM 
Building 1, Room 1302
Majid Ezzati, ScD, Associate Professor of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Sixth International Conference on Innovations in Exposure Assessment (X2009), Boston, MA.
August 17 - 20, 2009

An international group of researchers, practitioners, and policy specialists interested in exposure assessment and related issues will come together to share ideas, discuss and debate approaches, and learn about on-going projects. Registrations are now being accepted.  For more information go to: http://www.x2009.org/index.htm

EH Special Seminar: Innovation in Sustainability Policy Development and Implementation in Asia
September 5, 2008 1:00-2:00PM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Winston Dang, PhD, MPH, Former Legislator and Minister, Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency 

Harvard ERC and EOME Seminar Series: Diacetyl and Food Flavorings: Exposure Assessment and Control Challenges
September 8, 2008 12:30-1:30PM
HSPH, Kresge 502
Kevin H. Dunn, MS, CIH, NIOSH and CDC 

Environmental Health Colloquium: Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge
September 11, 2008 3:30-4:30PM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Daniel Schrag, PhD, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment 

ERC Seminars: Environmental Conditions in Prison Cells and Their Relationship with Mental Health of Inmates; Spatial and Temporal Variation in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Concentrations, Based on Personal, Indoor, and Outdoor Monitoring Among Non-Occupational
September 11, 2008 3:30-4:30PM
HSPH, Building 3, Room 502
Seung-Sup Kim and Hyunok Choi

MIPS Seminar: Asthma - Cockroaches, Endotoxin and Air Pollution
September 30, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Daniel Remick, MD, Chair and Professor of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center

The Gene Environment Initiative (GENI) Mini-Symposium and Poster Session
October 3, 2008 9:30AM-3:00PM
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Pechet Room, Harvard Medical School
Registration is FREE, and is on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information go to: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/geni/index.html

MIPS Seminar: Spatial Variation of Mechanical Properties of a Single Smooth Muscle Cell
October 7, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Chan Young Park, PhD, HSPH, Research Fellow

MIPS Seminar: Pulmonary Innate Immunity in Viral Infection: Role of Macrophage Scavenger Receptor-MARCO
October 14, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Sanjukta Ghosh, PhD, HSPH, Research Fellow

MIPS Seminar: Mechanobiology: Molecular Regulation of Muscle Contraction
October 21, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Srba Mijailovich, PhD, HSPH, Research Scientist

Environmental Health Colloquium: Genome-Wide Association Studies as a Tool in Gene-Environment Interaction Analyses
October 23, 2008 2:00-3:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
David Hunter, ScD, Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, HSPH, Department of Epidemiology

EER Works-in-Progress Seminar Series: Exhaled NO in Childhood: Associations with Asthma, Allergy and Sitting in Front of the Screen
October 28, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
Landmark, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Joanne Sordillo, ScD, Research Fellow in Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital

MIPS Seminar: Development of a Genome-Wide shRNA Library for "Loss-of-Function" Studies in Human Cells
October 28, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Hui Pan, PhD, HSPH, Research Fellow

Distinguished Lecture Series
October 30, 2008 4:00-5:00PM
Randy Jirtle, PhD, Duke University

MIPS Seminar: Macrophage Killing of Intracellular Pathogen Francisella tularensis: Functional Genomic Analysis
November 4, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Hongwei Zhou, PhD, HSPH, Research Associate

James L. Whittenberger Symposium and Lecture
Fetal Origins of Chronic Disease: Effects of Perinatal Environmental Exposures
November 14, 2008 1:30-4:30PM
James B. Martin Conference Center - 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
David J. P. Barker, MD, PhD, FRS, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Southampton, UK
RSVP to envhlth@hsph.harvard.edu by Monday, 11/10 to reserve your space.

MIPS Seminar: How Fragile is a Cell?
November 18, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Enhua Zhou, PhD, HSPH, Research Fellow

Nanomaterials, Nanotoxicology, and Risk Assessment
November 19, 2008 3:30-6:30PM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Jo Anne Shatkin, Ph.D., CLF Ventures
Christopher Long, Sc.D., Gradient Corporation
Joseph D. Brain, Sc.D., Harvard School of Public Health

Environmental Health Colloquium: Occupational Safety Science, Where to From Here?
November 20, 2008 2:45-3:45PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Y. Ian Noy, PhD, Vice President and Director, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

ERC Seminar: Mexico City Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposures and Changes in Heart Rate Variability in a Young Population
November 21, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, Kresge Room 502
Jennifer Cavallari, ScD CIH, Postdoctoral Fellow

MIPS Seminar: The Role of Prenatal Stress in Asthma Susceptibility
November 25, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Building 1, Room 1302
Robert Lim, M.D.?Research Associate in MIPS, HSPH 

NIEHS Organics Core Seminar: Green Chemistry: Sustainability at the Molecular Level
December 2, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, FXB G13
John C. Warner
President and Chief Technology Officer
Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry

MIPS Seminar: Spontaneous Emergence of a Fibrogenic Phenotype Across a Stiffness Gradient
December 2, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
Fei Liu, PhD, Research Fellow, HSPH

ERC Grand Rounds:
December 8, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, FXB G12
Marc Cullen

MIPS Seminar: Matrix Stiffness and Stretch: Hidden Variables in Cellular Mechanoprotection?
December 9, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
Rama Krishnan, PhD, Research Fellow, HSPH

EER Works in Progress Seminar Series: Exposure to traffic and the risk for myocardial infarction
December 9, 2008 12:00-1:00PM
Landmark, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Annette Peters, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, HSPH

Environmental Health Special Colloquium: Translation of Molecular Biomarkers to Cancer Prevention Strategies
December 10, 2008 10:30-11:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
John D. Groopman, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Environmental Health Colloquium: Exposure to Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs): From Product to Person
December 11, 2008 3:30-4:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Thomas F. Webster, ScD, Boston University School of Public Health

ERC Grand Rounds:
December 12, 2008 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, Kresge Room 502
Saeher Muzaffar

MIPS Seminar: Mechanical Stress Induces Goblet Cell Hyperplasia in Airway Epithelial Cells
December 16, 2008 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
Jin-Ah Park, PhD, Research Fellow, HSPH

MIPS Seminar: Unanswered Questions
January 6, 2009 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
John Godleski, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology, HSPH and Mary Williams, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Boston University School of Medicine

ERC Seminar: Does Communication Play a Role in Hospital Nurse Musculoskeletal Injury?; Exposure to Traffic Pollution and Increased Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
January 9, 2009 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, Kresge 502
Peter Lee, MD, MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Resident and Jaime Hart, ScD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow 

ERC Monday Seminar: Evaluating the Oxidative Stress Paradigm for Screening and Exposure Assessment of Nanomaterials
January 12, 2009 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, Kresge 502
Dhimiter Bello, ScD MSc, Assistant Professor of Occupational Hygiene and Work Environment Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell 

MIPS Seminar: Tuberous Sclerosis and LAM: Pathogenic Mechanisms
January 13, 2009 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
Elizabeth Henske, MD, Director, LAM Center Brigham & Women's Hospital and HMS 

ERC Seminar: Evaluation of the Israeli Navy's Contaminated Water Diving Program for Possible Application to US Navy Requirements; Beryllium Sensitization and Lung Function Among Former Workers at the Nevada Test Site
January 16, 2009 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, Kresge 502
Patrick Hennessey, MD PhD MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Resident and Ema Rodrigues, DSc MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow 

MIPS Seminar: Inhaled Insulin: The Rise and Fall of Exubera; Part II. Pharmacokinetics of Insulin in Human and Rat Lungs
January 20, 2009 9:30-10:30AM
HSPH, Bldg 1, Room 1302
Joseph D. Brain, SD, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology, HSPH and Ramon M. Molina, DSc, Research Scientist, HSPH 

EER Works in Progress Seminar Series: Maternal Interpersonal Trauma in Pregnancy and Cord Blood IgE: A Life Course Perspective
January 20, 2009 1:30-2:30PM
HSPH, Landmark, 4th Floor West, Room 414A
Michelle Sternthal 

ERC Seminar: Gender and Occupational COPD in the NHANES Study; Promoting Discussion of Workplace Factors in an Initial Evaluation for Occupational Acute Low Back Pain
January 23, 2009 12:30-1:20PM
HSPH, FXB G12
Saeher Muzaffar, MD, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Resident and Edward Chin, MD, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Resident 

MIPS Seminar
January 27, 2009 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Ping Yang, MD, Research Associate, HSPH 

Environmental Health Colloquium
February 12, 2009 3:30-4:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Robert Pojasek, PhD, Senior Associate, First Environment, Inc.