Center Member Research Presentation: Peng Gao, PhD
Join us for a Center Member Research Presentation by Dr. Peng Gao on Mapping the human exposome: From population pattern to cellular resolution. Following a brief presentation, there will be time for all participants to engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion with Dr. Gao and each other.
Summary: This presentation will explore cutting-edge approaches in environmental health that integrate chemical exposomics with multi-omics technologies to understand how environmental exposures influence human health. Dr. Gao will discuss our recent work on precision environmental health monitoring, including longitudinal profiling of personal exposomes and their connections to disease outcomes, with particular emphasis on applications in cancer, neurodegeneration, and respiratory health research. The talk will highlight opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration in advancing exposome science across scales, from population-level patterns to individual monitoring and down to molecular and cellular mechanisms.
About the speaker: Dr. Peng Gao is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposomics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on characterizing the human exposome, the totality of environmental exposures and their biological responses, and understanding its role in chronic disease development. Dr. Gao’s lab develops and applies advanced analytical chemistry and computational approaches to measure chemical and biological exposures in environmental and biological samples, integrating these with multi-omics data to investigate disease etiology. Before joining Harvard, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine.
This event will be held in person in HSPH Bldg. 1, 1302 and via Zoom. Register here
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