Past Seminars & Workshops
Recordings of CACHET Seminar Series – A monthly series of lectures sponsored by the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET).Previous Seminars
Past Seminars 2023-2024
May 23, 2024 "Are replacements for endocrine disrupting chemicals regrettable or responsible?"
May 21, 2024 Silent Spring 2.0 : Adverse impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides on human and wildlife health
April 18, 2024 "Pre-conception and Prenatal Exposure to Agricultural Pesticides and Childhood ADHD: Linking High Dimensional Pesticide Use Records, Birth Certificates, and Medicaid Data in the State of Arizona"
April 4, 2024 The Hills: Documentary
February 8, 2024 The Sociome Data Commons
December 14, 2023 "A preliminary characterization of the environmental impact on breast cancer disparities in Chicago using metabolomics"
November 13 2023 " Using the All of Us Researcher Workbench for Environmental Investigation"
October 20, 2022 Developmental Origin of Diabetes Following Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Role of Extracellular Vesicles
June 29, 2023 Mechanisms linking environmental chemicals to changes in developing brains
May 25, 2023 Ovarian disrupting effects of contaminants of emerging concern
May 18, 2023 Unraveling the contributions of genes versus environment in colorectal cancer metabolism
April 27, 2023 Mechanisms of Health Effects of Environmental Mitochondrial Toxicants
Past Seminars 2022-2023
March 30, 2023 Endocrine Disruption and Developmental Neurotoxicity: Linking Exposure to Disease
March 09, 2023 Wristbands as personal exposure devices: current and future trends
February 23, 2023 Reporting Back Personal Chemical Exposure Results Using DERBI: Methods and Outcomes
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November 1, 2022 Applying Implementation Science Methods for the Control of Food and Waterborne Infections
October 21, 2022 From Micro-to Nanoplastics: What we don't know but should
October 20, 2022 Developmental Origin of Diabetes Following Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Role of Extracellular Vesicles
September 6, 2022 Endocrine Disruptors as Environmental Determinants of Diabetes Mellitus
May 19, 2022 Exploring the Environment & Air of Chicago
April 21, 2022 Placental Health and the Environment
April 21, 2022 Protein Kinase C Delta is a Central Regulator of UV DNA Damage Responses
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Past Seminars 2021-2022
March 29, 2022 Cuba's Effort to Combat Climate Change
March 24, 2022 Data Talk: PHAME and the Chicago Health Atlas
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March 3, 2022 Empowering Community Groups to Visualize Environmental Health Disparities
November 18, 2021 "Ovarian Toxicity of Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements"
11/18/2021
Genoa Warner PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Ovarian Toxicity of Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements”
October 28, 2021 "Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Health"
Christopher Kassotis Ph.D
Wayne State University
“Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Health”
September 30, 2021 "Sources of inequity in exposure to fine particulate air pollution"
September 30, 2021
Christopher Tessum PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Sources of inequity in exposure to fine particulate air pollution”
Past Seminars 2020-2021
March 27th, 2021 “How to Run a Water Utility: Affordability, Public Trust, and Equity amidst Climate Change”
March 27th, 2021
Rachel Havrelock, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago)
“How to Run a Water Utility: Affordability, Public Trust, and Equity amidst Climate Change”
Dr. Rachel Havrelock is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Director and Founder of the UIC Freshwater Lab http://www.freshwaterlab.org/
March 25th, 2021 “The Perils of PFAS”
March 25th, 2021
Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S. (Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment)
“The Perils of PFAS”
Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist, microbiologist and the former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, as well as the National Toxicology Program, positions she held from January 18, 2009 until October 3, 2019. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and as a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
November 19th, 2020 “Investigating the microbiota, microbiome and microbial metabolome in clinical and experimental samples.“
November 19th, 2020
Eric Pamer, MD (The Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago)
“Investigating the microbiota, microbiome and microbial metabolome in clinical and experimental samples.“
September 24th, 2020 “Environmental exposures and children’s neurodevelopment; novel tools supporting new questions”
September 24th, 2020
Megan Horton, PhD, MPH (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
“Environmental exposures and children’s neurodevelopment; novel tools supporting new questions”
April 30th, 2020 “Through the Window of a Baby’s Eyes: Associations of Prenatal Phthalate and Phenol Exposures with Early Cognitive Development”
April 30th, 2020
Susan Schantz, Ph.D. (Zoom Webinar)
“Through the Window of a Baby’s Eyes: Associations of Prenatal Phthalate and Phenol Exposures with Early Cognitive Development”
April 22nd, 2020 “Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter”
April 22nd, 2020
Vishal Verma, Ph.D. (WebEx Webinar)
“Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter”
Past Seminars 2019-2020
February 27, 2020 “Environmental Epigenomics – New Paths to Precision Medicine”
February 27, 2020
Andrea Baccarelli (Columbia Mailman School of Public Health)
“Environmental Epigenomics – New Paths to Precision Medicine”
February 12, 2020 CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium:Environmental Toxicants and Women’s Health
February 12, 2020
CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium:Environmental Toxicants and Women’s Health
Ayman Al-Hendy, MD, PhD (UIC)
“Hypovitaminosis D and increased risk of uterine fibroids”
Qiwei Yang, PhD (UIC)
“Developmental exposure to endocrine disruptors and increased risk of uterine fibroids”
Dezheng Huo PhD (UChicago) and Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy PhD (UChicago)
“Epidemiological Approaches to Uncovering the Environmental Drivers of Breast Cancer Risk”
Joanna Burdette, PhD (UIC)
“Reproductive biology on a chip: the role of endocrine disruptors in ovarian cancer”
January 30, 2020 “Using Placental Genomics to Understand the Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Children’s Health”
January 30, 2020
Carmen Marsit, PhD (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
“Using Placental Genomics to Understand the Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Children’s Health”
November 21, 2019 “Exposomics and Precision Medicine”
November 21, 2019
Robert Wright (UofC)
“Exposomics and Precision Medicine”
October 31, 2019 “Quasi-experimental design methods to estimate causal effects of air pollution on health”
October 31, 2019
Joel Schwartz, Ph.D.
“Quasi-experimental design methods to estimate causal effects of air pollution on health”
May 30, 2019 “Systems thinking approaches to environmental health: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)”
May 30, 2019
Kristen Malecki, Ph.D., MPH
“Systems thinking approaches to environmental health: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)”
May 1, 2019 “CACHET Grantsmanship Workshop”
May 1, 2019 Jerry Heindel, Ph.D. “CACHET Grantsmanship Workshop”
Past Seminars 2018-2019
March 28, 2019 “Ambient and Household Air Pollution: The Unseen and Underestimated Global Health Threat”
February 28, 2019
November 29, 2018 CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium
CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium
Monica Peek, MD, MPH (UChicago) “Leveraging the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research for Environmental Health Research”
Honggang Ye, PhD (UChicago) “Resources in the Chicagoland Diabetes Research and Training Center to Support Environmental Health Research”
Jonathan Ozik, PhD (Argonne National Laboratory) “Employing Simulated Populations to Study Environmental Health”
Gokhan Dalgin, PhD (UChicago) “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Study of Environmental Health”
Abhinav Bhushan, PhD (IIT) “Metabolic tissue-chips: Techniques to Study Environmental Toxicology and Metabolic Diseases”
May 23, 2018 “Initial Lessons Learned with an Urban-Scale Sensing Infrastructure”
April 26, 2018 Invisible Influence: The Microbiome in Environment and Human Health.
Dr. Jack Gilbert
Invisible Influence: The Microbiome in Environment and Human Health. Dr. Jack Gilbert is a leading expert on the microbiome and he will discuss how the microbiome is influenced by the environment, how it modifies health, and how it can be used as a biomarker ofexposures. Recorded on 4/26/18.
February 15, 2018 Gail Prins (UIC) “Prostate Stem Cells as EDC Targets that Increase Cancer Susceptibility”
“Prostate Stem Cells as EDC Targets that Increase Cancer Susceptibility”
February 15, 2018 Habibul Ahsan (UofC) “Local and global environmental health research resource for CACHET investigators”
“Local and global environmental health research resource for CACHET investigators”