Speaker Videos

  • Opening Remarks
  • KC Donnelly Speakers
    • Ariel Robinson – (KCD, University of Kentucky), Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sampling and analysis for characterization of sewer systems in Kentucky
    • Victoria Colvin – (KCD, Oregon State University), Utilization of the CometChip Assay for Observing DNA Damage in Primary Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells
    • Matthew Dunn – (KCD, University of Rhode Island), Validation of a novel cyclodextrin sorbent for use in an integrative passive sampler for PFAS
  • Keynote I
    • Dr. Jonathan Jackson – (Mass. General), Quantified Approaches to Health Equity in Clinical Research
  • Scientific Session 1 – Human Health Research: Advanced techniques for the detection, assessment, and evaluation of the effect on human health of hazardous substances
    • Maya Spaur (Columbia University), Association of arsenic, uranium exposures in private wells and community water systems with urinary biomarkers
    • Skarlet Velasquez (KCD, University of Georgia), Associations of phthalate mixtures and birth outcomes among women using exposomic sensors in New Hampshire
    • Guobin Xia (KCD, Baylor College of Medicine), Prenatal Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Augments Neonatal Hyperoxic Lung Injury: Role of Cytochrome P450 (CYP)1A1, 1A2, and 1B1
    • Edward D. Levin (Duke University), Bridging Across Model Systems to Advance Neurotoxicology Screening with Meaning Well into the 21st Century
  • Scientific Session 2 – Susceptibility and Risk Factors: Methods to assess the risks to human health presented by hazardous substances
    • Breandon Taylor (KCD, University of Louisville), Acute Toxicity of 1,3-Butadiene Exposure on Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells at the Air-Liquid Interface
    • Amanda Bullert (University of Iowa), PCB52 but not its metabolites were detected in adolescent rat brains after acute nose-only exposure        
    • Zunwei Chen (Harvard), Role of arrestin domain containing protein 1 (ARRDC1)-mediated microvesicles (ARMMs) in metal-induced neurotoxicity
  • Scientific Session 3 – Exposure Science and Detection Technologies: Methods and technologies to detect hazardous substances in the environment
    •  Timothy Swager (MIT), Selective Extraction and Sensing of N-Nitrosamines        
    • Prabha Ranasinghe (Duke University), The role of commensal microbiome on evolved resistance to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Atlantic Killifish
    • Jessie Chappel (NC State University), The Utility of Molecule Risk Scores to Associate and Visualize Molecular Changes
  • Wetterhahn Award Announcement and Lecture
  • Scientific Session 4 – Prevention, Intervention, Remediation: Basic biological, chemical, and physical methods to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous substances
    • Kamila Murawska-Wlodarczyk (KCD, University of Arizona), Phytoremediation potential and metal tolerance of Atriplex lentiformis – linking plant stress gene expression and plant-microbe interactions in metal-contaminated mine tailin        
    • Maria Victoria Klaus (University of Kentucky), Development of Hydrogel Composites for PFAS Removal in Aqueous Systems        
    • Tae-Kyoung Kim (University of California – Berkeley), Energy-efficient Reductive Transformation of Hexachloroethane by Ethanol Radical Chain Reaction during In Situ Chemical Oxidation Treatment        
    • Sara Thomas (The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station), Nanoparticle enhanced PFAS phytoremediation
  • Keynote II
    • Dr. Kim Fortun (University of California – Irvine), Cultural Analysis in Environmental Health Sciences
  • Scientific Session 5 – Tools and technologies to enable systems level science
    • Luisa Feliciano (KCD, PROTECT: U of Puerto Rico), Post-Hurricane Damage Assessment Near Superfund Sites Using a GeoAI Framework        
    • Julia Rager (UNC-Chapel Hill), The inTelligence And Machine lEarning (TAME) Toolkit for Introductory Data Science in Environmental Health
    • Theodros Woldeyohannes (University of New Mexico), Utilizing remote sensing to examine occurrence of fires at unregulated waste disposal sites        
    • Subham Dasgupta (KCD, Oregon State University), Using single cell sequencing to investigate the endogenous role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in zebrafish hematopoiesis
  • Scientific Session 6 – Systems Approaches and Environmental Justice: Addressing environmental justice through a systems approach: equitable resilience
    • Leanne Fawkes (Texas A&M University), Building Equitable Resilience through Community Engagement        
    • Rebecca Dickman (KCD, University of Buffalo), Towards Quantification Without Standards: Impacts of Environmental Matrices on the Solubilities and Ionization Efficiencies of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)         
    • Nancy Cardona Cordero (KCD, PROTECT: Northeastern University), Phthalate Exposure Disparities among the PROTECT Cohort: A Transdisciplinary Approach
    • Susan M. Pinney (University of Cincinnati), Lessons Learned Along the Road to Hazardous Waste Clean-up
  • Awards and Closing Comments