2018 Events

Superfund Research Program

• Celebrating 30 Years of Science for a Safer World: 2018 Update Meeting
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley SRP
  January 30, 2018
  Berkeley, California

• Assessment of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia Coli in Karst Hydrosystems
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  February 5, 2018 • 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Offering Well Tests for Arsenic in Sonargaon, Bangladesh
  Ricardo Maertens, Ph.D.
  Harvard University
  
  Arsenic, Targeted Metabolomics, and Diabetes-Related Outcomes: Connecting the Dots in Population-Based Studies
  Miranda Jones Spratlen, Ph.D.
  Columbia University
  
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  February 26, 2018 • 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
  Palisades, New York and Online

• Spring 2018 Symposium: Breast Cancer and the Environment
  Grant Recipient Event: Co-Sponsored by the Duke University SRP
  March 9, 2018
  Durham, North Carolina

• Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
  March 11 - 15, 2018
  San Antonio, Texas

• Superstorms and Superfund Sites: Preventing Toxic Exposures from Climate Change Disasters
  Grant Recipient Event: Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  March 13, 2018 • 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Strong Heart Water Study: Participatory Interventions to Reduce Arsenic Exposure Among Private Well Users in American Indian Communities
  Christine Marie George, Ph.D.
  Johns Hopkins University
  
  Reducing Exposure to Legacy Pb and As Pollution in Urban Soils: Advances in New York City
  Daniel Walsh, Ph.D.
  New York City Office of Environmental Remediation
  
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  March 19, 2018 • 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT
  New York, New York and Online

• Arsenic Journal Club
  Article Under Discussion: Estimating the high-arsenic domestic-well population in the conterminous United States
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  March 20, 2018 • 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. EDT
  New York, New York and Online

• 2018 SRP Annual Poster Winners Trainee Webinar Series 
  March 27, 2018 • 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Remediation Technologies for Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Soil, Ground Water, and Sediments (Session 2)
  March 28, 2018 • 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Understanding the Combined Effects of Environmental Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors: Atherosclerosis as a Model
  April 3 - 4, 2018
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• How Do Community Contribution Requirements Affect the Provision of a Local Public Good? Experimental Evidence from Safe Water Sources in Bangladesh
  Anna Tompsett, Ph.D.
  Stockholm University
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  April 16, 2018 • 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. EDT
  Palisades, New York and Online

• ASPET Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2018
  April 21 - 25, 2018
  San Diego, California

• 2018 Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference
  April 23 - 26, 2018
  Cincinnati, Ohio

• 3rd International Conference on One Medicine One Science
  April 29 – May 2, 2018
  Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Down the Drain with PFAS: The Latest on Testing, Measuring, and Mitigating Community Water Contamination
  Grant Recipient Event: Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  May 1, 2018 • 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Risk e-Learning Webinar: New Approaches and Alternatives for Toxicity Testing
  Session I - Toxicity Testing Strategies and Model Systems
  May 14, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• NIEHS Distinguished Lecture: Metabolic and Immune Control of Liver Tumorigenesis (778KB)
  Michael Karin, Ph.D.
  University of California, San Diego SRP
  May 15, 2018 • 11:00 a.m. – noon EDT
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• Exploring the Characterization of Human Variability with In Vivo and In Vitro Experimental Models
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  May 21, 2018 • 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Citizen Science and Community Engagement: Approaches for Improving Environmental Data
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Texas A&M University SRP
  May 22, 2018 • 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• What's in Your Fish?
  Afternoon Forum (154KB)
  Grant Recipient Event: Co-Sponsored by the Boston University SRP
  May 22, 2018
  Boston, Massachusetts

• SRP Risk e-Learning Webinar: New Approaches and Alternatives for Toxicity Testing
  Session II - Tools for Assessing Exposure and Toxicity
  May 23, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• SRP Risk e-Learning Webinar: New Approaches and Alternatives for Toxicity Testing
  Session III - Modernizing Safety Testing
  May 31, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Central and Eastern European Conference on Health and the Environment (CEECHE)
  June 10 – 14, 2018
  Krakow, Poland

• New Jersey Township Ordinance for Arsenic Treatment Reduces Cancer Risk
  Megan Rockafellow-Baldoni, Ph.D., M.P.H.
  Rutgers University
  
  Arsenic Journal Club
  Article: AS3MT-mediated tolerance to arsenic evolved by multiple independent horizontal gene transfers from bacteria to eukaryotes
  Discussants: Anne Bozack and Athena Nghiem
  
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  June 18, 2018 • 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT
  New York, New York, and Online

• Innovations at the Intersections of the Aquatic Sciences: Water Quality, Health, Materials, Technologies
  June 24 – 29, 2018
  Holderness, New Hampshire

• Workshop on Developing a Data Science Competent EHS Workforce
  August 14 – 15, 2018
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• SRP Progress in Research Webinar: Multiproject Center Grants - Research Across Disciplines
  Session I - Duke University and University of Arizona
  August 23, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• 38th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants
  August 26 – 31, 2018
  Krakow, Poland

• 10th International PCB Workshop
  August 26 – 31, 2018
  Krakow, Poland

• SRP Progress in Research Webinar: Multiproject Center Grants - Research Across Disciplines
  Session II - University of Louisville, University of New Mexico, and University of Washington
  September 4, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• Total Exposure Health 2018
  September 6 – 7, 2018
  Rockville, Maryland

• SRP Progress in Research Webinar: Multiproject Center Grants - Research Across Disciplines
  Session III - Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Rhode Island
  September 10, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• 5th Annual International Scientific Conference on Occupational and Environmental Health
  September 10 – 12, 2018
  Hanoi, Vietnam

• Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Asia-Pacific Conference: Data, Science, and Management Promoting Environmental Welfare
  September 16 – 19, 2018
  Daegu, South Korea

• Metal Mixtures and Child Neurodevelopment in Bangladesh: Investigating Joint Effects and Windows of Susceptibility Using Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression
  Linda Valeri, Ph.D.
  Columbia University
  
  Declining Exposure of Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) Cohort Over 18 Years: Causes and Consequences
  Alexander van Geen, Ph.D.
  Columbia University
  
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  September 17, 2018 • 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT
  New York, New York and Online

• Triangle Global Health - 2018 Annual Conference
  September 27, 2018
  Raleigh, North Carolina

• SRP Progress in Research Webinar: Multiproject Center Grants - Research Across Disciplines
  Session IV - Boston University, Texas A&M University, and University of California, Davis
  October 1, 2018 • 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
  Webinar

• 15th International Phytotechnology Conference
  October 1 – 5, 2018
  Novi Sad, Serbia

• Development of Magnetic Nanocomposite Materials as Low-Cost Reusable Adsorbents for Chlorinated Organics in Contaminated Water (Wetterhahn Awardee Lecture) (120KB)
  Angela Gutierrez, Ph.D.
  October 3, 2018 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EDT
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• North Carolina Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting
  October 15, 2018
  Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

• Assessing Exposures from Drinking Water at the Point of Use: USGS Collaborative Tapwater Research
  Paul Bradley, Ph.D.
  Michael Focazio, Ph.D.
  U.S. Geological Survey
  
  Arsenic and Health Effects in the Strong Heart Study: Opportunities for Prevention
  Ana Navas-Acien, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
  Columbia University
  
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  October 15, 2018 • 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT
  Palisades, New York and Online

• Conference on Connections Between Soil Health and Human Health
  October 16 – 17, 2018
  Silver Spring, Maryland

• 6th Annual International Experimental Biology and Medicine Conference
  October 19 – 21, 2018
  Chengdu, China

• Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable
  November 7, 2018
  Reston, Virginia

• Without Consent: Chemical Exposures and Our Health
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Northeastern University SRP
  November 26, 2018 • 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Superfund Research Program 2018 Annual Meeting
  Hosted by the UC Davis SRP Center in collaboration with the UC Berkeley and UC San Diego SRP Centers
  November 28 – 30, 2018
  Sacramento, California

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Detection, Evaluation, and Remediation
  Grant Recipient Event: Co-Sponsored by the University of Washington SRP and the Oregon State University SRP
  December 6, 2018 • 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. EST
  Webinar

• Arsenic Journal Club
  Article Under Discussion: Multi-generational impacts of arsenic exposure on genome-wide DNA methylation and the implications for arsenic-induced skin lesions
  Grant Recipient Event: Sponsored by the Columbia University SRP
  December 17, 2018 • 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST
  New York, New York and Online