November/December 2019 CURES NEWSLETTER
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Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors
Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core
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The IHSFC has created this E-Newsletter to promote communication throughout the center and to inform our members of important events and issues. Please contact us if you have something to share and visit us online to continue the conversation (see links at the bottom of the newsletter.)
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Head over to the Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core website to keep up with the latest news, funding, access to data sets, and much more.
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*UPCOMING CURES SEMINARS*
November 21st:
Chris Trentacosta, PhD
"Prenatal Exposures, Fetal Brain Development, and Early Childhood Behavior"
December 12th:
Nathan Cherrington, PhD
"Phenoconversion in NASH: Inter-individual Variability and Opportunites"
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CURES 2019-2020 Seminar Series
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The new season of CURES Seminar Speakers has begun! Please note there is a new day and time for our seminars. They will now take place on:
Thursdays from 12:30- 1:30 pm at the Integrative Biological Sciences (IBio) Building
These seminars are open to all and CURES members are highly encouraged to attend. A list of speakers and their presentations titles can be found on the CURES website
here
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CURES will host the 2020 NIEHS Environmental Health Core Centers Meeting on July 22-24!
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Planning is in the works for the
July 22-24th
NIEHS Environmental Health Core Center Annual meeting. This event will give us the opportunity to showcase the exciting work of CURES and the city of Detroit to all of the other national Environmental Health ScienceCore Centers!
If you have topics that you would like to see addressed at this important meeting, please
contact the IHSFC
. We would love to hear your ideas.
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Dr. Tracie Baker featured in PBS Documentary and Detroit TEDx
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Dr. Tracie Baker
presented at TEDx Detroit last week. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, three broad subject areas that are shaping our future. TEDxDetroit is an independently produced offspring of the annual TED gathering of big brains and cool creators.
TEDx Detroit's mission:
We are the X. The multipliers. The catalysts. The connectors. The amplifiers. We challenge the status quo. We come together to collaborate, to share fresh ideas and to find inspiration. We are optimistic about our future. We believe Detroit's best days lie ahead. We are the people who are making it happen. We believe that is an idea worth spreading.
Tracie's presentation focused on 'boomerang toxicants' in our water supply. She also introduced the idea and hashtag #ToxicFreeThursday as a parallel to similar movements such as #MeatFreeMonday and #TacoTuesday. We are excited about this idea and plan to incorporate throughout our P30 center and beyond!
More details about this exciting event can be seen
here.
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T
he CURES December Program Leaders Meeting will take place on:
Friday, December 13, 2020
from 10:30- 11:30 am in IBio Conference Room 1A
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Found in Translation: NIEHS Translational Research Framework
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IHSFC Co-leader, Graham Parker, PhD, was invited by our partner P30 center at Iowa University to speak as part of their seminar series focused on research translation. His presentation highlighted some of CURES translational research stories within the context of the
NIEHS Translational Research Framework
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This tool provides a method by which Environmental Health Science Core Centers, like CURES, can tell the 'translational story' about their research.
The presentation was met with enthusiasm and news of the research series was widely shared via social media, as many other centers are working on using this new NIEHS tool. We are grateful to Dr. Parker for putting CURES at the forefront of this new discussion on research translation.
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CURES Member Spotlight: Peter Lichtenberg, PhD
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We are adding a new feature to the newsletter this month in order to help our members get to know one another, and our center, better. Each month, we will focus on a center member and give a short bio, describing them and their role within CURES.
This month, we will focus on the CURES Community Engagement Core Leader, Peter Lichtenberg, PhD.
Peter is the Director of both Merrill Palmer Skillman Instiute, the Institute of Gerontology and the Founding Director of the WSU Lifespan Alliance. Having served at Wayne State for over 26 years, he is
a national expert in financial capacity assessment and financial exploitation of older adults.
Peter has been instrumental in building the impressive CURES Community Advisory Board at the heart of our center. His lifelong dedication to community engagement is evident in all that he does and we at CURES are extremely grateful for his partnership.
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CURES Pilot Projects Awarded!
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The full Pilot Project proposals were reviewed and five new projects were funded. The recipients of the 2019 CURES Pilot Project funding are as follows:
- Tracie Baker, Shawn McElmurry, Nancy Love; Impact of changes in drinking water quality on gut microbiome
- Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia, Carol Miller, Mala Hettiarachchi; Decoding PFAS Exposure in Cancer Initiation and Progression
- Douglas Ruden, Daniel Rappolee; Effects of Phthalates on Epigenetic Reprogramming of Embryonic Stem Cells
- Marianna Sadagurski, Ulrike Klueh; Benzene exposure promotes neuroinflammation and metabolic dysregulation
- Jennifer Straughen, Yalei Chen; Bridging exposure to BTEX and preterm birth in African Americans: the role of DNA methylation
We congratulate these awardees and extend gratitude to all who applied for the pilot project program. All of at CURES are excited to watch these projects develop!
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Recent CURES Publications
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If you have an event, accomplishment, or something you would like to share in the monthly newsletter, please contact Jessica Worley at the IHSFC.
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Supported by NIEHS Grant #
P30 ES020957
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