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