CURES 2019-2020 Seminar Series
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The new season of CURES Seminar Speakers will begin this month. 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
Please look for an email invitation in the near future. Special thanks to Chris Cowen and Graham Parker for their excellent efforts in making this series happen.
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CURES will host the 2020 NIEHS Environmental Health Core Centers Meeting on July 22-24!
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CURES is thrilled to host our annual meeting of P30 Environmental Health Science Core Centers from across the country. This event will take place from
July 22-24th
and will give us the opportunity to showcase the exciting work of CURES and the city of Detroit! Look for more details in the coming months.
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The CURES 2019 Pilot Project Program Update
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The Pilot Project informational meetings were successful and CURES received an impressive number of LOIs in response to the RFA. Those selected to submit a full proposal have done so and their proposals are now under review. A new round of successful Pilot Projects will be announced soon!
You can read the full RFA
here
.
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Growing the next generation of scientists
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Doug Ruden, PhD, co-leader of the CURES Exposures Signature Facility Core, recently welcomed high school student, Jakar Dhillon, to assist in his laboratory. Jakar was a 2019 Michigan Science and Engineering Fair Grand Award winner, for his project, "A Novel Approach to Environmental Biosensors Using a Two-Step Genetic Circuit."
An excerpt from his Research Plan reads as follows:
HYPOTHESIS: I predict that the creation of an environmental biosensor using a two-step genetic circuit would be drastically more effective at sensing and even eliminating harmful chemicals such as arsenic and mercury. I propose the use of a genetic circuit with the integration of AND Boolean logic that is able to analyze input signals from the ArsR operon (for arsenic) and the MerR operon (for mercury) and result in a quantitative fluorescent output. The outputs of this circuit become the inputs for the next circuit, which is able to analyze the concentration of arsenic in the environment and result in a sufficient production of S-adenosylmethionine, which is known to neutralize the toxicity of arsenic in aqueous solution.
Mr. Dhillon clearly has a bright future ahead of him and we commend Dr. Ruden for his commitment to fostering a passion for research in the next generation. The issues that the research of CURES addresses are not likely to go away anytime soon and it is young people like Mr. Dhillon, with guidance from current scientists, that will carry the torch of our center's important work.
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T
he CURES September Program Leaders Meeting will take place on:
September 6, 2019
from 10:30- 11:30 am in IBio Conference Room 1A
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The Signature Symposium is Here!
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Wayne State University's Office of the Vice President for Research, in conjunction with CURES, Healthy Urban Waters (HUW), Transformative Research in Urban Sustainability Training (T-RUST), the Graduate School, and the Global Health Alliance, is pleased to host the first annual
Global Health, Justice and the Environment conference
on
September 10 – 11, 2019.
The conference will focus on the important priorities needed for responding to environmental factors that impact human health, as well as the justice needed to expand beyond access to health care that includes a focus on issues such as air pollution, chemical pollution, water quality, food and drug safety, public health, childhood health and many environmental factors causing health differences. Health justice may provide an important view for understanding environmental and resource struggles around the globe, and may offer opportunities to shape broader global processes. This conference will provide a framework for shaping the critical priorities needed for global health, justice and the environment.
The
conference
will be held at Wayne State's
Student Center Ballroom
, and is open to all. To register, visit
here
! The fee to attend this two-day conference is $25. Students may register for free by entering the word "student" under special requirements - you may ignore the invoice that is sent to you!
For the full agenda, visit
here
.
Questions regarding the conference may be emailed to research@wayne.edu.
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Dr. Tracie Baker wins School of Medicine Research Excellence Award
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All of us at CURES would like to join in to congratulate our own Dr. Tracie Baker on her recent recognition by the School of Medicine and Dean Jack Sobel, MD, as a recipient of the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Research Excellence Award in Basic Science. She will be formally honored at the School of Medicine Faculty Awards and Promotion and Tenure Ceremony this October.
Dr. Baker has made amazing strides in her water research program using the zebrafish model. You can read more about her work at her lab's webpage:
http://www.bakerwaterlab.com/
or check out
this feature article
describing Dr. Baker's research path. We are very proud to have her on our team!
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Podcast: From the Lab to Real-World Impacts: NIEHS Tools for Translational Research:
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Translational research refers to the process of moving from basic laboratory research to improvements in human health on a larger scale. The NIEHS Translational Research Framework is a model and tool that helps researchers design environmental health research programs by allowing them to follow fundamental research questions, using cells or microbes for example, all the way through meaningful public health impacts. These impacts could include reduced exposure to harmful contaminants or improved health at the population level, among others.
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