2025

Dr. Robyn Tanguay, Distinguished Professor, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University. “Leveraging Scalable In Vivo Phenotyping Screening to Predict Toxicity of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.” May 2, 2025

Dr. Jessica S. Plavicki, Manning Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University. “AHR signaling pathway in neurovascular development and disease.” April 25, 2025

Dr. W. Kimryn Rathmell, Former Director, National Cancer Institute.“Cancer at the Crossroads.” February 17, 2025

Dr. Tamara Tal, Mechanistic Toxicology Group Leader, Chemicals in the Environment Research Section, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; Professor of Integrated Systems Toxicology, Medical Faculty, Leipzig University. “This is your brain on environmental chemicals: Multi-behavioral phenotyping and neuroactivity fingerprints reveal bad actors in early-life stage zebrafish.” February 12, 2025

2024

Dr. Martha Susiarjo, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. “Environmental Exposure Modulates Genomic Imprinting and Maternal-Fetal Health.” June 11, 2024

Dr. Julia Yue Cui, Sheldon D. Murphy Endowed Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health; Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington. “Exploring the Gut-Liver-Brain Axis for Precision Environmental Health.” May 21, 2024

Dr. Fernanda Laezza, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch.“Precision Environmental Health: Mechanisms and Therapies.” May 16, 2024

Dr. Kenneth Ramos, Alkek Chair of Medical Genetics; Professor of Translational Medical Sciences; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Services, The Texas A&M University System. “Beyond the Coding Genome: A Story of LINEs and Genome Plasticity in Health and Disease.” May 15, 2024

Jackie Medcalf, Founder & Executive Director, Texas Health & Environment Alliance. “Lessons Learned by Engaging Communities Surrounding Superfund Sites.” April 25, 2024

Dr. Aileen F. Keating, Professor, Department of Animal Science; Director, Interdepartmental Toxicology Graduate Program; Faculty Success Advisor, Iowa State University. “Ovarian Toxicants – Modes of Action and Physiological Influences on Toxicity.” April 4, 2024

2023

Dr. Matt Cave, Distinguished University Scholar; Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Louisville School of Medicine. “Environmental Liver Disease.” December 12, 2023

Dr. Sonia de Assis, Associate Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center. “Environmentally-Induced Epigenetic Inheritance of Cancer and Metabolic Phenotypes.” November 14, 2023

Dr. Zdenko Herceg, Head, Branch of Epigenomics and Mechanism International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO). “Epigenome Deregulation and Environmental Origins of Cancer” September 28, 2023

Dr. Robyn Leigh Tanguay, University Distinguished and Director of the Superfund Research Program, Oregon State University. “Using Multidimensional Zebrafish Data to Protect and Improve Human Health” May 16, 2023

Dr. Angelike Stathopoulos, Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology. “Regulatory Steps Driving Patterning of Drosophila Embryos Illuminated by Single-Cell Transcriptomics” April 26, 2023

Dr. Richard T. Di Giulio, Klegerg Professor of Environmental Toxicology, Duke University. “Effects of PAHs on Development in Fish and Evolutionary Consequences” April 20, 2023

Dr. Samantha Morris, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Departmental Biology, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. “New genomic technologies to deconstruct and control cell identity” April 19, 2023

Dr. Kathryn Wellen, Associate Professor, Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. “Acetyl-CoA Metabolism in Health and Disease” March 8, 2023

Dr. Matthew Campen, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of New Mexico. “Placental effects of inhaled ozone and implications for maternal cardiovascular health” February 23, 2023

Dr. Karen Adelman, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular, Harvard Medical School. “Gene control during development” February 1, 2023

Dr. Diana Rohlman, Associate Research Professor, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University. “Community Engagement Across the Study Lifespan: Wildfire Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy” January 24, 2023

2022

Dr. Jeanette Stingone, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. “Data Sharing in the Environmental Health Sciences: A Tour of the HHEAR Data Repository” December 8, 2022

Dr. Nicholas D.E. Greene, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. “The glycine cleavage system in development and neurometabolic disease – investigating mechanisms and potential treatments” November 4, 2022

Dr. Shelly Buffington, Assistant Professor of Department of Neurobiology, the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. “The gut microbiome as a mediator of gene: environment interactions modulating neurodevelopment and behavior” November 3, 2022

2021

Dr. Kathleen Gray, Director of Center for Public Engagement with Science, UNC Institute for the Environment. “Environmental health literacy: How assessment can inform education and engagement” October 12, 2021

Dr. Cigall Kadoch, Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. “Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer” April 28, 2021

Dr. Chi Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside. “Epigenetic inheritance mediated by sperm RNAs & RNA modifications” March 26, 2021

Dr. Christopher Bradfield, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Early Insights from Novel Ahr Alleles” February 26, 2021.

2020

Dr. Mike Denison, Professor of Environmental Toxicology, UC Davis. “And Now For Something Completely Different: Ligand Diversity in Ah Receptor Signaling and Response” December 4, 2020

Dr. Luciano Di Croce, Center for Genomic Regulation. “Chromatin regulators in cell differentiation and cancer processes center for genomic regulation” November 11, 2020

Dr. Manish Arora, Professor of Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “Environmental Biodynamics: the role of time in environmental health research” June 2, 2020

Dr. Natalie Johnson, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University. May 20, 2020

Dr. Wendy Nembhard, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Epidemiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. “Birth defects, fetal exposures, and adult chronic disease” May 5, 2020

Dr. Julia Cui, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health. “How developmental exposure to environmental chemicals reprograms the epigenetic memory and nuclear receptor-signaling to modulate drug metabolism and transport during and beyond childhood” April 7, 2020

Dr. Jennifer Schlezinger, Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health. “How endocrine disruptors modulate PPARg signaling” March 3, 2020

Dr. Donna Zhang, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Arizona Health Sciences. “NRF2 in Environmental Response and Disease Intervention” January 14, 2020