Youth dictates susceptibility to mutations and cancer caused by a DNA damaging agent with Bevin Engelward, ScD
Please join the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and the Department of Environmental Health for a talk by Bevin Engelward, ScD, Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Engelward will discuss “Youth dictates susceptibility to mutations and cancer caused by a DNA damaging agent.”
This event will be held in person (HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302) and via Zoom. Register here
Trainee meeting for students and postdocs immediately following the seminar, 2-2:30 pm, in 1306A! Come in-person to discuss research interests, career plans, and funding opportunities. RSVP here!
About the speaker
Dr. Bevin Page Engelward is Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, Director of the MIT Superfund Research Program, and Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her doctoral degree in Molecular Toxicology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the MIT faculty in 1997 and has been a Full Professor since 2014.
Dr. Engelward’s research focuses on how genes and environmental factors influence susceptibility to DNA damage, mutations, and cancer. Her work spans fundamental research and technology development, including creation of the first mouse model in which cells harboring sequence rearrangements fluoresce, enabling studies of mutagenesis in vivo. Her laboratory has also developed innovative cell-array technologies, including the CometChip for high-throughput analysis of DNA damage.
Dr. Engelward is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a past President of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. Her honors include the EMGS Hollaender Award, EMGS Mentor Award, and Society of Toxicology Education Award.
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