Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Announcements

January 2014

New Center Member – Jessica Savage

Please welcome our newest Center Member, Jessica Savage, MD, MS, MHS. Jessica is an allergist and clinical investigator at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Her research interests involve the study of early exposure to triclosan and parabens and their effects on the human microbiome and development of allergic disease. She is currently working with Russ Hauser in the Center’s Organic Chemicals Research Core.

Pilot Project Grants – Applications due February 6th

We are now accepting applications for Pilot Projects in Environmental Health Science. Center Members and their collaborators are welcome to apply for awards of up to $25,000. Applications are due February 6th. For details see:

Center Facility Access Funds

Facility access funds in the amount of $5,000 were awarded to David Gregory and Les Kobzik for their project, Proteomic Characterization of a Translational Switch. The project investigates factors that render macrophages susceptible to respiratory pathogens. Funds will be used for services of the FAS Center for Systems Biology, Mass Spectroscopy and Proteomics Resource Laboratory.

Facility Access Funds are still available for use of internal or external services. See for details.

External Funding Opportunities

See our website for up-to-date postings:

  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD): Epigenetic Modification in Gametogenesis and Transgenerational Inheritance (R01)(PAR-13-385) Due: January 30, 2014 (and January 30, 2015)
  • Validation and Demonstration of Devices for Environmental Exposure Assessment (R21/R33) (PAR-13-013) Due: February 4, 2014
  • Analysis of Genome-Wide Gene-Environment (G x E) Interactions (R21) (PAR-13-382) Due: February 14, 2014
  • NSF Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology, Due: February 20, 2014
  • Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award (R01), (RFA-ES-13-014), Due: February 28, 2014
  • Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants in a Changing World andEarly Career Award: Particulate Matter and Related Pollutants in a Changing World, (EPA-G2014-STAR-G1; EPA-G2014-STAR-G2), Due: March 14, 2014
  • Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engaged Research Efforts (R01) (PA-13-209) and (R21) (PA-13-212), Exploratory/Developmental Grant – standard due dates
  • Transition to Independent Environmental Health Research (TIEHR) Career Development Award (K22) (PA-12-188), NIEHS, standard due dates

Center Events

See our Center Events Calendarat for details. To post an event, email details to .

Thu Jan 23, 2014

NanoLecture Series: Commercialization of CNT-enabled Products: Tradeoffs ThroughtProdcutLifecyckes- Jackie Isaacs, Professor, Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering, Northeastern University, HSPH 1, Rm 1302, 12:30pm

Fri Jan 24, 2014

Metals Core Research Day! Landmark Center, 3rd Floor East Atrium, 1pm-5pm

Tue Jan 28, 2014

MIPS Seminar: Environmental Lung Injury: Steven Kleeberg, PhD, Senior Investigator, Respiratory Biology Lab, Environmental Geetics Group NIEHS, Location: HSPH Bldg I, Rm 1302, 9:30am

Tue Feb 4, 2014

MIPS Seminar: Why Children Survive when Adults do not: Mapping the Pediatric Survivome, Lester Kobzik, MD, Directors MIPS, HSPH.Location: HSPH Bldg I, Rm 1302, 9:30am

Sun Feb 9, 2014

COEC Outreach Event: Air Quality & Public Health at the Dorchester Winter Farmers Market

Volunteers wanted for Air Quality Demonstrations. Training in advance or on site. No experience necessary! Volunteers needed to work one or both shifts (11am-2pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm). Contact Madeleine for details:

Location: Codman Square Great Hall, 6 Norfolk St, Dorchester

Tue Feb 11, 2014

MIPS Seminar: Unjamming the jammed epithelial monolayer bystretching -BomiGweon, PhD Research Fellow, MIPS. Location: HSPH Bldg I, Rm 1302, 9:30am

NE-EDC Seminar: Chris Gennings, Professor of Biostatistics, Virginia

Commonwealth University,Kresge 502, 12:30pm

Tue Feb 18, 2014

MIPS Seminar: Augmented responses to acute ozone exposure in obese mice: role of IL-17A - Joel Mathews, PhD Research Fellow, MIPS, HSPH Bldg I, Rm 1302, 9:30am

Thu Feb 20, 2014

EH COLLOQUIUM, HSPH, Building I, 1302, 4pm

Mon Feb 24, 2014

NanoLecture Series: Predicting the Impact of Engineered Nanomaterialson Lung Diseases, James C. Bonner, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology, North Carolina University, HSPH1 1302, 12:30pm

Tue Feb 25, 2014

MIPS Seminar: Contractility and Tension of the Endothelium Under Fluid, Shear Stress - Robert Steward, PhD Research Fellow, MIPS, HSPH Bldg I, Rm 1302, 9:30am

Recent Center Publications

These Publications that cited the Center Grant were recently indexed in PubMed:

The relationship between indoor and outdoor temperature, apparent temperature, relative humidity, and absolute humidity.
Nguyen JL, Schwartz J, Dockery DW.,Indoor Air. 2014 Feb;24(1):103-12. Epub 2013 Jun 18.PMID:23710826

Environmental epigenetics: from novelty to scientific discipline.
Burris HH, Baccarelli AA., J ApplToxicol. 2014 Feb;34(2):113-6.Epub 2013 Jul 9. PMID: 23836446

Ambient particulate air pollution and microRNAs in elderly men.
Fossati S, Baccarelli A, Zanobetti A, Hoxha M, Vokonas PS, Wright RO, Schwartz J., Epidemiology. 2014 Jan;25(1):68-78., PMID:24257509

Bisphenol A concentrations in maternal breast milk and infant urine.
Mendonca K, Hauser R, Calafat AM, Arbuckle TE, Duty SM., Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2014 Jan;87(1):13-20. Epub 2012 Dec 5. PMID: 23212895

Short-term exposure to air pollution and lung function in the Framingham Heart Study.
Rice MB, Ljungman PL, Wilker EH, Gold DR, Schwartz JD, Koutrakis P, Washko GR, O'Connor GT, Mittleman MA.,Am J RespirCrit Care Med. 2013 Dec 1;188(11):1351-7, PMID: 24200465

The association of bisphenol-A urinary concentrations with antral follicle counts and other measures of ovarian reserve in women undergoing infertility treatments.
Souter I, Smith KW, Dimitriadis I, Ehrlich S, Williams PL, Calafat AM, Hauser R. ReprodToxicol. 2013 Dec;42:224-31. Epub 2013 Oct 4. PMID: 24100206

Urinary bisphenol A concentrations and cytochrome P450 19 A1 (Cyp19) gene expression in ovarian granulosa cells: an in vivo human study.
Ehrlich S, Williams PL, Hauser R, Missmer SA, Peretz J, Calafat AM, Flaws JA.,ReprodToxicol. 2013 Dec;42:18-23. doi: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.06.071. Epub 2013 Jul 10. PMID: 23850856

An in vivo and in vitro toxicological characterisation of realistic nanoscaleCeO₂ inhalation exposures.
Demokritou P, Gass S, Pyrgiotakis G, Cohen JM, Goldsmith W, McKinney W, Frazer D, Ma J, Schwegler-Berry D, Brain J, Castranova V., Nanotoxicology. 2013 Dec;7(8):1338-50. Epub 2012 Nov 8.PMID:23061914

Modifying roles of glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms on the association between cumulative lead exposure and cognitive function.
Eum KD, Wang FT, Schwartz J, Hersh CP, Kelsey K, Wright RO, Spiro A, Sparrow D, Hu H, Weisskopf MG., Neurotoxicology. 2013 Dec;39:65-71. Epub 2013 Aug 16.PMID:23958642

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