February 2023| Center for Human Health and the Environment | |
Feb 15: Spring 2023 CHHE Pilot Project Application deadline Guidelines | |
7th Annual CHHE Symposium
Sex Differences in Response to Environmental Exposures
Please join us for the the 7th Annual CHHE Symposium on Feb 21, 2023. We're excited to host four outside speakers (Staci Bilbo, Erica Glasper, Meghan Rebuli, David Waxman) and eight CHHE speakers (John Meitzen, Mike Cowley, Scott Belcher, Vijay Sivaraman, Ayse Ercumen, Shobhan Gaddameedhi and Heather Patisaul). We will highlight our excellence in Sex Differences in Response to Environmental Exposures. There will also be a general poster session for all CHHE members and their labs to share their research. Be sure to register soon as space is limited. Register here. Agenda is now available on line here.
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Shoban Gaddameedhi contributed to an article published in the Technician
Shobhan Gaddameedhi, an associate professor in the department of biological sciences and principal investigator in the Circadian Clock and Genotoxic Stress Laboratory, said the body’s natural sleep-wake cycle is a circadian rhythm, meaning it is coordinated by an internal biological clock that is set by external cues. Gaddameedhi said a common disruption to students’ sleep-wake cycle is called social jetlag, which occurs when people stay up late and sleep in on weekends. This shift in one’s sleep schedule affects the circadian rhythm similar to traveling across time zones. Article
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Lacey Brown, New CHHE/Superfund Program Manager
Lacey is the Community Engagement Specialist for both CHHE and Superfund. As a North Carolina native, Lacey has forged connections with folks across the state and seen firsthand how environmental pollution can upend lives. After moving to Wilmington in 2021, she became aware of PFAS and their associated risks to human health and the environment. Since then, she has been an active member of the grassroots effort to reduce and eliminate PFAS contamination in the area. Lacey is a member of Clean Cape Fear’s Leadership Team. Lacey holds a double B.S. in Communication Studies and Public Relations. She is currently pursuing an M.S. via NC State’s Climate Change and Society program, studying climate change communication and environmental policy.
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Maria Rodgers, New Full Member
The Rodgers Lab broadly focuses on research questions in immunotoxicology. Ongoing projects include using microfluidic intestine-on-chip technology to examine how PFAS chemicals influence intestinal immunity and microbial assemblages, examining current PFAS levels in the Long Island Sound and how these levels will impact fish under future climate change scenarios, and examining humoral immune responses in wild sea turtles in the southeastern United States.
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Yang Zhang, New Full Member
Zhang’s research focuses on the development of functional fluorescent probes for imaging and sensing applications at the nanoscopic level. He further seeks the integration of novel functional imaging probes and multi-dimensional single-molecule optical imaging methods to map spatially-resolved omics, higher-order chromatin structures & epigenetics, and molecular interactions with nanometer resolutions. Further, He is interested in applying integrated molecular imaging tools to address biomedical questions related to human vision, eye disease, neurological disorders, and color perception.
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Tracey Leigh Woodlief, New Full Member
Dr. Woodlief's research program explores the impact of exposure to environmental contaminants on bioenergetics at the whole-body level, as well as within the immune system, liver, and skeletal muscle. We seek to uncover novel mechanisms within metabolism, fuel utilization, inflammation, and immunology as they relate to public health. Our research focus is on mechanisms to elucidate the molecular links between cell specific and whole-body bioenergetics and biological perturbations, such as diet, exercise, age, disease and toxicants. Altogether, we are especially interested in discerning how peroxisomal-mitochondrial energetics respond to and/or drive health and disease within the population as a whole and within various subpopulations, such as between different ethnic groups, young versus old, certain disease states (diabetes, obesity, cancer), and in contaminant-exposed populations.
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Clarlynda Williams-Devane, New Full Member | | |
Natalia Duque-Wilkins, New Full Member | | |
Announcements and Reminders | |
Job board: The CHHE Website posts job openings in the environmental health sciences field. Send us your postings for new jobs, email Michico (MJ) James. It's a great place for students and post-docs to see new available positions. | |
Cite the Center: Remember to 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.”
Publications citing the Center grant in the acknowledgements of a manuscript and in the deposit of the manuscript in NIEMS are the currency for the P30 renewal!
CHHE Resources and Facilities Page for NIH Grants is available on the CHHE website.
PINS: Remember when submitting your grants, be sure to select "Center for Human Health and the Environment" as a center in PINS.
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CHHE Seed and Voucher Funds Available - Use it or Lose it
CHHE provides Full Members up to $5,000/year for projects that are related to the mission of the Center. CHHE will provide these funds to defray costs associated with using the Systems Technology Core (STC) (metabolomics, metallomics, proteomics and genomics) and the Comparative Pathology Core (tissue embedding, sectioning, and staining). Seed Funds can also be used at other NC State core facilities including Analytical Instrumentation Facility, Cellular and Molecular Imaging Facility, and the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Lab.
To request Seed Funds or STC Voucher Funds click here.
The budget year is April 01 - March 31. The deadline to use these supplemental funds is March 31, 2023, work in core facilities must be completed by mid-March 2023.
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