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A Note from the Director
Hello Everyone,
Welcome back to faculty and students. It was great to see so many of you at the CHHE summer retreat last week! There was amazing attendance from our colleagues from ECU and NC Central, and from our Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB)! Thank you for making the drive to NC State. I heard a lot of great comments afterward regarding the presentations made by our SAB and the panel discussion that followed, and walked by some interesting discussions following the pilot project program presentations. Thanks again to the organizing team (Fred, David, MJ, Surabhi, Katy, Lacey, Hong and Yogesh) and all presenters - great job! If you missed the event, there will be a recording on our website, along with presenters' slides. Please see more below.
This is a super busy month for me - I will be in WI for a family reunion and a class reunion on two different weekends, and in between will provide testimony at the request of Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) at the Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice and Regulatory Oversight hearing on September 19 focused on PFAS human health exposure and effects. Then myself, Katy May, Lacey Brown, and several invited CHHE members (David Aylor, Jen Richmond-Bryant, Jen Runkle, Vijay Sivaraman, and Natalia Duque-Wilckens) are traveling to Baltimore for the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers national meeting, hosted by Johns Hopkins, Sept 22-25. On the 26th, I will join other NIEHS-funded Center directors and engagement specialists on Capitol Hill to speak with elected officials from NC, MI, and KY regarding the impact of our Center research accomplishments for polluted communities and what a level or decreased NIEHS budget may mean in future years. I hope you will participate in some of our local upcoming events.
Sue Fenton
sefenton@ncsu.edu
Toxicology Bldg. 1104E
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Sept. 06: Behavior and Neuroscience RIG Monthly Meeting, Kurt Marsden lab presenting with Melody Hancock (Phd candidate in Bioinformatics) talking about her project on a zebrafish model of CHARGE syndrome 12:00 Fox 306.
Sept. 15: HIVE Mini-proposal Submission deadline, contact gga-research@ncsu.edu
Sept. 17: Pilot Project Application deadline, contact chhepilotprogram@ncsu.edu
Sept. 18: Jennifer Alexander-Brett, “Mechanistic Insights into Human Chronic Airway Disease” 3:00pm NC Central BBRI 2nd floor/Zoom
Sept. 25: Environmental Health Disparities Monthly Meeting 1:00 Zoom
Sept. 30: Community Grant Program Application deadline, contact kmay2@ncsu.edu
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The CHHE Summer Retreat was held on August 28, 2024
The retreat featured an overview of the newly reorganized CHHE structure and services offered to full members, highlights of new services offered by our career development program, and changes to the pilot project program. This year three of our recent Community Grant awardees presented the significant work they accomplished with the funds they were provided through CHHE. The presentations were followed by a panel discussion led by Katy May and Lacey Brown. Fred Wright presented some best practices for citing the Center and making sure that those publications are entered in NIHMS. The afternoon was rounded out by short presentations by five selected recipients of Pilot Project Program grants and a social hour for further discussions.
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Welcome To Our Newest CHHE Member, Pingping Meng
Dr. Meng is an Assistant Professor at ECU in the Department of Environmental Chemistry. Welcome Pingping!
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NC State Leading New Collaborative Grant to Study Immune Receptors
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $1.5million award to an interdisciplinary, interinstitutional team of researchers from NC State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The grant includes a $645,180 award for NC State. The lead principal investigator is Jeff Yoder, executive director of the Genetics and Genomics Academy and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Article
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Ayse Ercumen Promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Ercumen was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. She is one of the core faculty in the Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster and is the current co-lead for the CHHE Water and Emerging Contaminants RIG. Congratulations Ayse!
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances alter innate immune function: evidence and data gaps. Phelps DW, Connors AM, Ferrero G, DeWitt JC, Yoder JA.
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Combined screening and retroactive data mining for emerging perfluoroethers in wildlife and pets in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. Bangma J, Pu S, Robuck A, Boettger J, Guillette T, McCord J, Rock KD, Sobus J, Jackson TW, Belcher SM.
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Differential gene expression between central and peripheral retinal regions in dogs and comparison with humans. Salzman MM, Takimoto T, Foster ML, Mowat FM.
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Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC): Human Studies Design and Protocol. Group MR, Jakicic JM, Kohrt WM, Houmard JA, Miller ME, Radom-Aizik S, Rasmussen BB, Ravussin E, Serra M, Stowe CL, Trappe S, AbouAssi H, Adkins JN, Alekel DL, Ashley E, Bamman MM, Bergman BC, Bessesen DH, Broskey NT, Buford TW, Burant CF, Chen H, Christle JW, Clish CB, Coen PM, Collier D, Collins KA, Cooper DM, Cortes T, Cutter GR, Dubis G, Fernandez FM, Firnhaber J, Forman DE, Gaul DA, Gay N, Gerszten RE, Goodpaster BH, Gritsenko MA, Haddad F, Huffman KM, Ilkayeva O, Jankowski CM, Jin C, Johannsen NM, Johnson J, Kelly L, Kershaw E, Kraus WE, Laughlin M, Lester B, Lindholm ME, Lowe A, Lu CJ, McGowan J, Melanson EL, Montgomery S, Moore SG, Moreau KL, Muehlbauer M, Musi N, Nair VD, Newgard CB, Newman AB, Nicklas B, Nindl BC, Ormond K, Piehowski PD, Qian WJ, Rankinen T, Rejeski WJ, Robbins J, Rogers RJ, Rooney JL, Rushing S, Sanford JA, Schauer IE, Schwartz RS, Sealfon SC, Slentz C, Sloan R, Smith KS, Snyder M, Spahn J, Sparks LM, Stefanovic-Racic M, Tanner CJ, Thalacker-Mercer A, Tracy R, Trappe TA, Volpi E, Walsh MJ, Wheeler MT, Willis LH.
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Exercise FITT-V during pregnancy: Association with birth outcomes. Claiborne A, Wisseman B, Kern K, Steen D, Jevtovic F, McDonald S, Strom C, Newton E, Isler C, Devente J, Mouro S, Collier D, Kuehn D, Kelley GA, May LE.
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Improved Child Feces Management Mediates Reductions in Childhood Diarrhea from an On-Site Sanitation Intervention: Causal Mediation Analysis of a Cluster-Randomized Trial in Rural Bangladesh. Contreras JD, Islam M, Mertens A, Pickering AJ, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Hubbard AE, Rahman M, Unicomb L, Luby SP, Colford JM Jr, Ercumen A.
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Is detection of enteropathogens and human or animal faecal markers in the environment associated with subsequent child enteric infections and growth: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Mertens A, Arnold BF, Benjamin-Chung J, Boehm AB, Brown J, Capone D, Clasen T, Fuhrmeister ER, Grembi JA, Holcomb D, Knee J, Kwong LH, Lin A, Luby SP, Nala R, Nelson K, Njenga SM, Null C, Pickering AJ, Rahman M, Reese HE, Steinbaum L, Stewart JR, Thilakaratne R, Cumming O, Colford JM Jr, Ercumen A.
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Erratum: "Drinking Water-Associated PFAS and Fluoroethers and Lipid Outcomes in the GenX Exposure Study". Rosen EM, Kotlarz N, Knappe DRU, Lea CS, Collier DN, Richardson DB, Hoppin JA.
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Robust analyzes for longitudinal clinical trials with missing and non-normal continuous outcomes. Liu S, Zhang Y, Golm GT, Liu GF, Yang S.
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Oral histories document community mobilisation to participate in decision-making regarding a hazardous waste thermal treatment facility. Richmond-Bryant J, Odera M, Subra W, Vallee B, Rivers L 3rd, Kelley B, Cramer JA, Wilson A, Tran J, Beckham T, Irving J, Reams M.
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Cite the Center
Cite and acknowledge NIH award support and the CHHE’s P30 grant in future publications and presentations by including this –
“Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30ES025128. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”
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