Seminars & Workshops
CACHET Seminar Series – A monthly series of lectures sponsored by the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET).Upcoming Seminars
January 28, 2021
TBD
February 25, 2021
TBD
March 25, 2021
TBD
Previous Seminars
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.“
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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“
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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“
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April 22nd, 2020
Vishal Verma, Ph.D. (WebEx Webinar)
“Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter“
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February 27, 2020
Andrea Baccarelli (Columbia Mailman School of Public Health)
“Environmental Epigenomics – New Paths to Precision Medicine“
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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
Carmen Marist, PhD (Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University)
“Using Placental Genomics to Understand the Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Children’s Health“
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October 31, 2019
Joel Schwartz, Ph.D.
“Quasi-experimental design methods to estimate causal effects of air pollution on health”
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May 30, 2019
Kristen Malecki, Ph.D., MPH
“Systems thinking approaches to environmental health: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)”
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March 28, 2019
12 – 1pm | UIC
Sola Olopade, MD, MPH
“Ambient and Household Air Pollution: The Unseen and Underestimated Global Health Threat”
February 28, 2019
Mark Templeton
“Environmental and Energy Advocacy at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic”
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William Kling
“Community Activism: A Framework for Mapping Community Assets”
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November 29, 2018
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
Charlie Catlett (UofC, Argonne National Library)
“Initial Lessons Learned with an Urban-Scale Sensing Infrastructure”
April 26, 2018
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 of exposures. Recorded on 4/26/18.
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February 15, 2018
Habibul Ahsan (UofC)
“Local and global environmental health research resource for CACHET investigators”
February 15, 2018
Gail Prins (UIC)
“Prostate Stem Cells as EDC Targets that Increase Cancer Susceptibility”