Please join the Department of Environmental Health for the Mechanisms of Environmental and Lung Diseases (MELD) T32 Seminar Series. Date: May 6, 2025, 9:30am – 10:30am Location: Building 1, Room 1302 Topic: Infrared Molecular Fingerprinting and Proteomic Profiling of Firefighters: Assessing Occupational Exposure-Related Biochemical Alterations Speaker Information Organizers

With Dr. David Christiani

With Vanessa Kerry, MD, MSc, Director of Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change

With Dr. Rick Woychik, NIEHS Director, and Principal Investigator

Jade Benjamin-Chung, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Her group conducts research to identify interventions to control, eliminate, or eradicate environmentally-transmitted infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea, soil-transmitted helminths, and influenza. Her research uses a variety of epidemiologic, computational,...

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 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: 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.

"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 Elisabeth M Simonin, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow

With Oh Youn Kim, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Environmental Health