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Department of Environmental Health

Fall 2007 Seminars

Fall 2007 Seminars

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

The Role of Rho Kinase Isoforms in Murine Allergic Airway Responses
June 12, 2007  9:30AM
Building 1 Room 1302
Ming Zhu
 
T cell regulation at birth--can it be related to in utero environmental exposures?
June 12, 2007  3:30-4:30PM
Building 1, Room 1302
Diane Gold

Improving Exposure Science through Discoveries in Human Dosimetry Research
June 12, 2007  10:00-11:00AM
FXB-G12
David Kim

Advanced Techniques for the Detection and Quantification of Bioaerosols
June 14, 2007 12:00-1:00
FXB-G12
James McDevitt

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 

Hot Topics Series: Boston Air Pollution and Its Effects
July 31, 2007 12:30PM
FXB-G13
Douglas Dockery

Exposure Biology Working Group
July 31, 2007 3:30PM
Landmark Center, 4th Floor West, Room 403Q

Responses of the Heart to Ambient Particle Inhalation
September 11, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1 Room 1302
John J. Godleski
Associate Professor of Pathology, HMS & HSPH
  

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  

Modeling Ground-Based and Space-Based Particle Measurements with Application to Environmental Epidemiology
Meredith Franklin  (Thesis Defense)
Date: September 14, 2007

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

ERC Seminar
September 17, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge 502
   
Traction, Stretch, and Multiscale Dynamics of the Cytoskeleton
September 18, 2007 9:30-10:30AM
Building 1, Room 1302
Ramaswamy Krishnan
Research Associate, MIPS
 
Lead Neurotoxicity: Molecular Effects & Therapeutic Strategies
September 19, 2007 12:30-2:00PM
Landmark 3rd Floor East, Conference Room 006
Tomas Guilarte PhD
Professor, Neurotoxicology & Molecular Imaging
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
 
ERC Grand Rounds
September 21, 2007 12:30-1:20PM
Kresge G3
    

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

Exposure Biology Working Group
September 25, 2007 3:30PM
Landmark 4th Floor West, Room 403Q
   

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