MEMCARE-SRC Speaker Series – Chengfeng Yang
Virtual In PersonWith Chengfeng, Yang, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center
With Chengfeng, Yang, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center
With Oh Youn Kim, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Environmental Health
Join WGH and speakers Dr. Aya Goto and Dr. Michio Murakami for a lunchtime talk and Q&A on their work surrounding the environmental and human health impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Lunch provided!
With Elisabeth M Simonin, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow
"Too often genetics gets the short end of the stick in public health. But I’m going to tell you how we can use genetics to save and improve lives and study environmental exposures." - Charleen D. Adams, PhD, MPH Research Fellow / Lead Scientist
With Dr. Xiaobin Wang, Zanvyl Krieger Professor in child health, and Director of the Center on the Early Life Origins of Disease at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of pediatrics and a board-certified pediatrician at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
With: Zunwei Chen, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zunwei will introduce the role of EVs in neurotoxicity caused by heavy metal cadmium exposure using human in vitro neuronal cells with a focus on novel microvesicles ARMMs and the underlying mechanisms. He will then explore the potential of EVs as therapeutical application targeting neurodegenerative diseases.
With Akram Alshawabkeh, PhD, PE, University Distinguished Professor and Snell Professor of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University Director, PROTECT Superfund Research Center
With Kevin Lanza, PhD, Assistant Professor at UT Health School of Public Health in Austin, member of the U.S. EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors’ Climate Change subcommittee
With PhD Candidate Sandra Dedesko