Scientific Sessions and Presentations

Monday – Celebrating Collaboration and Training

October 22, 2012

Keynote

• Hazardous Waste, Vulnerable Populations and the Superfund Research Program (2MB)
  Philip Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Scientific Session 1: Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Moderator: Alicia Timme-Laragy, Ph.D., Woods Holed Oceanographic Institution

• Environmentally Persistent Free Radical Exposure Enhances Influenza Severity in Neonates
  Greg Lee, Louisiana State University
• Arsenic Species Have Differential Impacts on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Induced Immune Response in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells
  Emily Notch, Ph.D., Dartmouth College
• Software for Geostatistical Estimation of Superfund Chemical Contaminants in Stream Water (1MB)
  Prahlad Jat, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Carbon Nanotubes and Asbestos Fibers: Interdisciplinary Research on Emerging and Re-Emerging Contaminants (2MB)
  Agnes Kane, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert Hurt, Ph.D., Brown University

Scientific Session 2: Risk Assessment and Remediation

Moderator: Tiffany Bredfeldt, Ph.D. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

• The Risk Assessment/Risk Management Nexus: How Each Discipline Informs the Other (686KB)
  Mark Maddaloni, Dr.P.H, DABT, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Investigating Pathways of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Developmental Toxicity in Zebrafish With a Comparative Systems Approach (2MB)
  Britton Goodale, Oregon State University
• Compound- and Mixture-Specific Differences in Resistance to PAHs and PCB-126 Among Fundulus heteroclitus Subpopulations Throughout the Elizabeth River Estuary (Virginia, USA)
  Bryan Clark, Ph.D., Duke University
• Green and Responsive Materials for Remediation (1MB)
  Li Xiao, University of Kentucky
• Catalyzing Site Restoration via Research Translation and Trans-Disciplinary Partnerships (1MB)
  James Rice, Ph.D., Brown University

Alumni Presentations

• My Journey from Student to Professor: How the Karen Wetterhahn Award Inspired My Career Choices
  Anne Spuches, Ph.D, Dartmouth College Graduate, East Carolina University
• Two-Stepping Between Science and Policy (2MB)
  Elena Craft, Ph.D., Duke University Graduate, Environmental Defense Fund
• From PCBs to DDGS: A Journey From Environmental Remediation to Biorefining
  Scott Lewis, Ph.D., University of Kentucky Graduate, Ashland Water Technology

Tuesday – Celebrating Research and Community

October 23, 2012

Trainee Award Presentations

Wetterhahn Awardee Presentation
Gwen Collman, Ph.D., NIEHS

• The Role of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Development of Diabetes (1MB)
  Nicki Baker, University of Kentucky, 2012 Wetterhahn Awardee

2011 KC Donnelly Awardee Presentations
Moderator: Timothy Phillips, Ph.D., Texas A&M University

• Temporal Assessment of Regulatory Water Quality Measurements in the Northern Karst Aquifer of Puerto Rico: A Significant Outcome of the K.C. Donnelly Externship (1018KB)
  Celys Irizarry, University of Puerto Rico – Mayagϋez
• Comparative Toxicogenomic Analyses to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Toxicity of SRP Chemicals (473KB)
  Alvina Mehinto, Ph.D., University of Florida
• 3,3',4,4',5-Pentachlorobiphenyl (PCB 126) Decreased the Ratios of Epoxide Metabolites to their Corresponding Diols in Male Rodents (653KB)
  Xianai Wu, Ph.D., University of Iowa

Scientific Session 3: Research to Inform the Community

Moderator: Anthony Oliveri, Duke University

• Informing Communities – A Collaborative Investigation of Native American PAH Dietary Exposure Scenarios and Possible Risks to Human Health (1MB)
  Norman Forsberg and Anna Harding, Ph.D., Oregon State University
• Improving Understanding of Community Knowledge and Concerns at Newly Designated National Priorities List (NPL) Sites in North Carolina (2MB)
  Tracey Slaughter and Kathleen Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The AESOP Study: A Transdisciplinary Study to Assess Inhalation Exposure to PCBs in Children and their Mothers
  Rachel Marek and Peter Thorne, Ph.D., University of Iowa

Special Presentation

• Emergence of Global Chronic Disease and the Future of Public Health Interventions
  John Groopman, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Scientific Session 4: Research on a Global Scale

Moderator: Joel Meyer, Ph.D., Duke University

• Early-life Arsenic Exposure in Northern Chile: Examining Cancer Risks Decades after High Exposure
  Craig Steinmaus, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Size-Resolved Aerosol Contaminants Associated with Copper and Lead Smelting Emissions in Australia and Arizona: Implications for More Effective Emissions Management and Human Health Risks
  Janae Csavina, Ph.D., University of Arizona
• Creatinine, Arsenic Metabolism, and Renal Function in an Arsenic Exposed Population in Bangladesh
  Brandilyn Peters, Columbia University
• Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Among Pregnant Women Living in Northern Puerto Rico
  David Cantonwine, Ph.D., Northeastern University
• Children's Environmental Health in Vulnerable Regions, the Participation of the Dean Carter Binational Center for Environmental Health Science
  Fernando Diaz, Ph.D., Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Wednesday – Special Symposium: Exploring Novel Approached to Complex Exposures

October 24, 2012

Symposium Session I: What is the Exposome?

Moderator: Laura Macaulay, Duke University

• Exposome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) for Discovering Environmental Causes of Disease (1MB)
  Steve Rappaport, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Concentrations in Human Serum and Brain Tissue and Their Relation to Disease: Evaluating Two Vulnerable Population Groups, Children and the Elderly
  Dana Barr, Ph.D., Emory University

Symposium Session 2: Novel Tools for Exposure Analysis

Moderator: Elyse Rodgers-Vieira, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Emerging Tools for Characterizing the Personal Environment
  David Balshaw, Ph.D., NIEHS
• Characterizing the Eco-exposome with Ubiquitous Sensing and Spatiotemporal Analyses
  Michael Jerrett, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Low-Cost Multiplexed Sensors Made From Paper (1MB)
  Jason Rolland, Ph.D., Research Diagnostics for All
• Exposure Biomonitoring as a Component of National Health Surveillance and Forecasting System
  Dean Jones, Ph.D., Emory University

Symposium Session 3: How Are Complex Exposures Modeled?

• ToxCast Revisited: A Comprehensive Statistical Analysis of Predicting In Vivo Hazard Using High-Throughput In Vitro Screening (6MB)
  Russ Wolfinger, Ph.D., SAS
• Application of PBPK Modeling and In Vitro Assays to Conduct Cumulative Risk Assessments for Environmental Exposures (944KB)
  Harvey Clewell, Ph.D., The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
• Dosimetry Anchored Systems Models of Toxicity for Derivation of No Effect Levels (2MB)
  Katrina Waters, Ph.D., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Symposium Session 4: What Disease Outcomes/Burdens Result from Complex Exposures?

Moderator: Daniel Brown, Duke University

• From Individuals to Community: A Molecular-Based Systems Approach to Understanding Bioremediation
  Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• The Use of Chemical Genetics to Dissect the Complex Pathway of Aflatoxin Carcinogenesis (2MB)
  John Essigmann, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Special Presentation

• Integration of Complex Exposures and Response (726KB)
  Tina Bahadori, D.Sc., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Panel Discussion

• Moderator: Bruce Hammock, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• Julia Gohlke, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Shane Snyder, Ph.D., University of Arizona
• Teresa Fan, Ph.D., University of Louisville
• Anne Spuches, Ph.D., East Carolina University
• Alicia Timme-Laragy, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution