EPA/NIEHS Children's Centers 2012 Webinar Series

Role of Home Indoor Environment and Diet on Childhood Asthma
Gregory Diette
Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Nrf2 Directed Environmental Stress Response Against Oxidative Stress and Inflammation
Shyam Biswal
Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Home Interventions to Improve Indoor Air Quality and Asthma Health
Nadia Hansel
Johns Hopkins Children's Center

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In Utero and Early Life Exposure to Arsenic - Sources and Potential Health Impacts
Margaret Karagas
Dartmouth

Toxicant Exposures and the Development of Obesity in Childhood
Karen Peterson and Dana Dolinoy
University of Michigan

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Improving Knowledge of the Environmental Causes of Leukemia in Children: the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment (CIRCLE)
Patricia Buffler
University of California Berkeley,
School of Public Health

Global Perspectives on Childhood Leukemia Research - the Childhood Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC)
Catherine Metayer
University of California Berkeley,
School of Public Health

DNA methylation in blood cell development and leukemia : building a framework to study environmental effects on methylation
Joseph Wiemels
University of California - San Francisco

Estimating Exposures to Indoor Contaminants using Residential Dust
Todd Whitehead

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Novel Approaches to Assessing Cognitive Function in Early Infancy
Susan Schantz
University of Illinois

Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Pesticides on Brain Development and Cognitive Function
Virginia Rauh
Columbia University

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Tipping the Balance of Neural networks with Persistent Organic Pollutants: Relevance to Autism Risk
Isaac Pessah
UC Davis

What Have We Learned about Autism and the Environment: An Epidemiologist's Perspective
Irva Hertz-Picciotto
UC Davis

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Effects of Prenatal Environmental Exposures on Child Health and Development
Frederica Perera
Columbia University

Embracing Complexity: Animal Models of Environmental Exposure Health Effects
Richard Auten
Duke University

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History of CHAPS-SJV: How We Came to Asthma, Immunology, Birth Outcomes with a Focus on PAHs
A Bit of PAH Chemistry and How We Create Exposure Estimates
Katherine Hammond
University of California - Berkeley

PAHs and Asthma--Relation to Phenotype; Relevance to Birth Outcomes
Kari Nadeau
Stanford University School of Medicine

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A Pediatric Specialist's Perspective on Early Origins of Disease
Phil Gruppuso
Brown University

Developmental Origins of Male Reproductive Tract Disorders
Kim Boekelheide
Brown University

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Biomarkers to Predict and Monitor Asthma Therapy
Stanley J. Szefler
National Jewish Health

Environmental Triggers of Asthma Exacerbations
Rachel Miller
Columbia University

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Sharing Lessons from the Field: Understanding Factors that Define Variability in Pesticide Exposure and Response for Children
Elaine Faustman
Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Principal Investigator for the UW Children’s Center

California Initiative to Improve Environmental Quality in Early Care and Education Environments
Asa Bradman
Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health at University of California, Berkeley

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