Past Seminars & Workshops

Recordings of CACHET Seminar Series – A monthly series of lectures sponsored by the ChicAgo Center for Health and EnvironmenT (CACHET).

2023-2024

May 23, 2024 "Are replacements for endocrine disrupting chemicals regrettable or responsible?"

May 21, 2024 Silent Spring 2.0: Adverse impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides on human and wildlife health

April 18, 2024 "Pre-conception and Prenatal Exposure to Agricultural Pesticides and Childhood ADHD: Linking High Dimensional Pesticide Use Records, Birth Certificates, and Medicaid Data in the State of Arizona"
April 4, 2024 The Hills: Documentary
February 8, 2024 The Sociome Data Commons

December 14, 2023 "A preliminary characterization of the environmental impact on breast cancer disparities in Chicago using metabolomics"

November 13, 2023 "Using the All of Us Researcher Workbench for Environmental Investigation"

October 20, 2022 Developmental Origin of Diabetes Following Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Role of Extracellular Vesicles

June 29, 2023 Mechanisms linking environmental chemicals to changes in developing brains

May 25, 2023 Ovarian disrupting effects of contaminants of emerging concern

May 18, 2023 Unraveling the contributions of genes versus environment in colorectal cancer metabolism

April 27, 2023 Mechanisms of Health Effects of Environmental Mitochondrial Toxicants

2022-2023

March 30, 2023 Endocrine Disruption and Developmental Neurotoxicity: Linking Exposure to Disease

March 9, 2023 Wristbands as personal exposure devices: current and future trends

February 23, 2023 Reporting Back Personal Chemical Exposure Results Using DERBI: Methods and Outcomes

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November 1, 2022 Applying Implementation Science Methods for the Control of Food and Waterborne Infections

October 21, 2022 From Micro-to Nanoplastics: What we don't know but should

October 20, 2022 Developmental Origin of Diabetes Following Gestational Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Role of Extracellular Vesicles

September 6, 2022 Endocrine Disruptors as Environmental Determinants of Diabetes Mellitus

May 19, 2022 Exploring the Environment & Air of Chicago
April 21, 2022 Placental Health and the Environment

April 21, 2022 Protein Kinase C Delta is a Central Regulator of UV DNA Damage Responses

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2021-2022

March 29, 2022 Cuba's Effort to Combat Climate Change
March 24, 2022 Data Talk: PHAME and the Chicago Health Atlas

March 3, 2022 Empowering Community Groups to Visualize Environmental Health Disparities

November 18, 2021 "Ovarian Toxicity of Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements"

Genoa Warner PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
“Ovarian Toxicity of Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements”

October 28, 2021 "Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Health"
Christopher Kassotis Ph.D
Wayne State University
“Environmental Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Mixtures and Metabolic Health”
September 30, 2021 "Sources of inequity in exposure to fine particulate air pollution"

September 30, 2021
Christopher Tessum PhD University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Sources of inequity in exposure to fine particulate air pollution”

2020-2021

March 27th, 2021 “How to Run a Water Utility: Affordability, Public Trust, and Equity amidst Climate Change”

Rachel Havrelock, Ph.D
University of Illinois at Chicago
“How to Run a Water Utility: Affordability, Public Trust, and Equity amidst Climate Change”
Dr. Rachel Havrelock is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Director and Founder of the UIC Freshwater Lab http://www.freshwaterlab.org/
March 25th, 2021 “The Perils of PFAS”

Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.
Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment
“The Perils of PFAS”

Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist, microbiologist and the former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, as well as the National Toxicology Program, positions she held from January 18, 2009 until October 3, 2019. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and as a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

November 19th, 2020 “Investigating the microbiota, microbiome and microbial metabolome in clinical and experimental samples.“

Eric Pamer, MD
The Duchossois Family Institute at the University of Chicago
“Investigating the microbiota, microbiome and microbial metabolome in clinical and experimental samples.“

 

 

September 24th, 2020 “Environmental exposures and children’s neurodevelopment; novel tools supporting new questions”
Megan Horton

Megan Horton, PhD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Environmental exposures and children’s neurodevelopment; novel tools supporting new questions”

April 30th, 2020 “Through the Window of a Baby’s Eyes: Associations of Prenatal Phthalate and Phenol Exposures with Early Cognitive Development”

Susan Schantz, Ph.D. (Zoom Webinar)
“Through the Window of a Baby’s Eyes: Associations of Prenatal Phthalate and Phenol Exposures with Early Cognitive Development”
April 22nd, 2020 “Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter”

2019-2020

February 27, 2020 “Environmental Epigenomics – New Paths to Precision Medicine”
February 12, 2020 CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium:Environmental Toxicants and Women’s Health
January 30, 2020 “Using Placental Genomics to Understand the Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Children’s Health”
November 21, 2019 “Exposomics and Precision Medicine”
October 31, 2019 “Quasi-experimental design methods to estimate causal effects of air pollution on health”
ENDOCRINE and METABOLIC DISEASE Technical Symposium
May 30, 2019 “Systems thinking approaches to environmental health: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)”
May 1, 2019 “CACHET Grantsmanship Workshop”

2018-2019

March 28, 2019 “Ambient and Household Air Pollution: The Unseen and Underestimated Global Health Threat”

Sola Olopade, MD, MPH
“Ambient and Household Air Pollution: The Unseen and Underestimated Global Health Threat”
February 28, 2019 “Environmental and Energy Advocacy at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic”
Mark Templeton
“Environmental and Energy Advocacy at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic”
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February 28, 2019 “Community Activism: A Framework for Mapping Community Assets”
William Kling
“Community Activism: A Framework for Mapping Community Assets”
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November 29, 2018 CACHET Endocrine and Metabolic Disease Technical Symposium
ENDOCRINE and METABOLIC DISEASE Technical Symposium Flyer
May 23, 2018 “Initial Lessons Learned with an Urban-Scale Sensing Infrastructure”

Charlie Catlett
(UofC, Argonne National Library)
“Initial Lessons Learned with an Urban-Scale Sensing Infrastructure”
April 26, 2018 Invisible Influence: The Microbiome in Environment and Human Health
Dr. Jack GilbertDr. Jack Gilbert
“Invisible Influence: The Microbiome in Environment and Human Health”
Dr. Jack Gilbert is a leading expert on the microbiome and he will discuss how the microbiome is influenced by the environment, how it modifies health, and how it can be used as a biomarker ofexposures.

 

 

 

February 15, 2018 Gail Prins (UIC) “Prostate Stem Cells as EDC Targets that Increase Cancer Susceptibility”
February 15, 2018 Habibul Ahsan (UofC) “Local and global environmental health research resource for CACHET investigators”