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
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Dr. Alshawbkeh's research interests include geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration. His talk will focus on the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and the water purification technology being developed in the Center's Project 4."... Read more about Environmental Contamination and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome in Puerto Rico: Overview of the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and Update on Water Purification Technology Development

Marc Weisskopf, Sc.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Physiology
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Project Lead: MEMCARE-SRC Project 1: Early Life Metals Exposure and Cognitie Aging
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We are building on a landmark study in the 1950’s and 1960’s that collected over 300,000 baby teeth to assess exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons testing. With 100,000 of these teeth that have been recently found, we are tracking down the donors to ask questions of how early life exposures, including to metals, shape later life health. This talk will describe our efforts to date and preliminary results.

Kelly Bakulski, PhD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Data Management and Statistical Core Leader, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
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Dr. Bakulski's research interests include the environmental and genetic etiology of neurological disorders using molecular epidemiology and toxicology approaches. This talk will share findings from large population-based epidemiologic cohorts examining patterns between people in exposure to metals like lead and cadmium with future risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. It will also zoom in to brain region and cell type specific genomic responses to metals using animal models and cell model research, effectively linking complementary population and laboratory approaches.

Dr. Bakulski is a molecular epidemiologist and environmental health scientist who investigates the roles of environmental chemicals and genetics in the etiology of neurological diseases. Her team develops biomarker and cell type specific tools to inform population-based approaches. She is passionate about mentoring and has been awarded the School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award.

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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
 

Dr. Alshawbkeh's research interests include geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration. His talk will focus on the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and the water purification technology being developed in the Center's Project 4.... Read more about POSTPONED - Environmental Contamination and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome in Puerto Rico: Overview of the PROTECT Superfund Research Center and Update on Water Purification Technology Development

Chengfeng Yang, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Pathology
Stony Brook Cancer Center
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Non-coding RNAs are considered important regulators of physiological and pathological processes, this talk discusses their roles and mechanisms in mediating the adverse health effect of environmental exposure focusing on metal carcinogenesis

Chris Vulpe, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiological Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida
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Dr. Vulpe’s group uses systems level approaches in eukaryotes from yeast to people to identify the functional components that respond to and modulate the consequences of environmental stressors.... Read more about Functional Toxicology to Understand Superfund Relevant Chemicals

Bruce Rittmann, PhD
Director, Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
Regents’ Professor of Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University
Watch now... Read more about Recovering Highly Valuable Metals using Microbially Mediated Precipitation

Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD
DNA Repair Section, National Institute on Aging, NIH and University of Copenhagen

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Juliette C. Madan, MD, MS
Associate Professor Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Epidemiology & Quantitative Biomedical Data Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
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Hannah Laue, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Epidemiology at Dartmouth
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E. Christian Wells, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Director, Center for Brownfields Research & Redevelopment
President, Florida Brownfields Association

Presented jointly by MEMCARE-Superfund Research Center and the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT)
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Read the full article: Meeting the Water and Sanitation Challenges of Underbounded Communities in the U.S., E. Christian Wells, Abby M. Vidmar, W. Alex Webb, Alesia C. Ferguson, Matthew E. Verbyla, Francis L. de los Reyes III, Qiong Zhang, and James R. Mihelcic, Environmental Science & Technology 2022 56 (16), 11180-11188, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03076

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Diane B. RE, PhD
Assistant Professor
EHS Department, Columbia University
Watch now... Read more about Investigating the Role of Metals in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Andrew Geller, PhD
ORD Executive Lead on Lead (Pb) and Environmental Justice Research, US EPA Office of Research and Development 
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Laurel Schaider, PhD
Senior Scientist, Silent Spring Institute
Watch now... Read more about PFAS contaminants and their health effects: Scientists and affected communities working together to protect public health

Detlef Knappe
Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at NC State University
Deputy Director of NC State Superfund Center (“Environmental and Health Effects of PFAS")
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Kathy James, PhD, MSPH, MSCE
Associate Research Professor, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Denver
Watch now... Read more about Community Engagement in the Time of COVID