SRP Progress in Research Webinar: Session I — Emergencies and Emerging Contaminants

This Progress in Research webinar series will showcase research from 11 new and renewed Multiproject Center grantees, funded by SRP in 2022. These awards were made as part of the P42 grant solicitation RFA-ES-20-014. In the four-part series, awardees will highlight their research projects, accomplishments, and next steps.

The Texas A&M University SRP Center works to understand how climate-related
disasters, coupled with the vulnerability of communities disproportionately exposed to environmental contamination, increase the health risks associated with contamination events. Center scientists develop, apply, and translate a comprehensive set of tools and models to help first responders, impacted communities, and government agencies characterize and mitigate the human health consequences of exposure to hazardous mixtures.

The Michigan State University SRP Center investigates pollutants in the halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon family — including dioxins, biphenyls, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — which are commonly found at Superfund sites and pose a
human health risk. The center's central theme is to define specific aspects of environmental, microbial, and mammalian biological responses to these environmental
contaminants, with the goal of understanding their environmental fate and developing state-of-the-art remediation technologies to reduce their toxicity.

The Yale University SRP Center is driven by community-based concerns about emerging contaminants that affect water resources and drinking water supplies at multiple sites across the U.S. Center researchers engage in problem-based, solution-oriented research related to 1,4-dioxane, an emerging water contaminant that is widespread and persistent in the environment, poorly regulated, has consistently shown carcinogenic effects, and is not mitigated using standard approaches. The center addresses critical gaps in the understanding of cancer mechanisms, chemical mixture interactions, and detection and treatment technologies through innovative techniques that inform risk assessment and help affected communities remove these contaminants from their water supplies.

To learn about and register for the other sessions in this webinar series, please see the SRP website.

Ivan Rusyn, Ph.D., Texas A&M University (irusyn@cvm.tamu.edu)
Ivan Rusyn is University Professor in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University in College Station. He is also Chair of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of Toxicology, Director of an NIEHS T32 training program in “Regulatory Science in Environmental Health and Toxicology,” and Director of the Superfund Research Center. His studies on health effects of chemical agents resulted in over 310 peer-reviewed publications which were cited over 30,000 times. He has served on and chaired several US National Academies committees, World Health Organization/International Agency for Research on Cancer monograph working groups. He is serving on the advisory board for Texas Department of Public Health, and on the Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute. Dr. Rusyn received a doctor of medicine degree from Ukrainian State Medical University in Kyiv and a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf. Dr. Rusyn's laboratory is funded by grants and cooperative research agreements from the National Institutes of Health and US Environmental Protection Agency, institutional funding from Texas A&M University, the industry, and other sources.

Garett Sansom, Dr.PH, Texas A&M University (sansom@tamu.edu)
Garett Sansom, DrPH, is a research assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. His research interests are health and sustainability, community health assessment, environmental justice, urban planning, environmental containments, and community resilience. Dr. Sansom can discuss the human health implications of the environment, urban planning, water security and disaster preparedness. He holds positions with the Texas A&M Institute for Sustainable Communities and the Texas A&M Superfund Research Center. Dr. Sansom received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from St. Edward's University, his MPH in epidemiology and his DrPH in epidemiology and environmental health, both from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health.

Natalie Johnson, Ph.D., Texas A&M University (nmjohnson@tamu.edu)
Natalie Johnson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health and Vice Chair of the Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program at Texas A&M University. Her research group focus is investigating effects of air pollution on maternal and infant immune and respiratory dysfunction. Dr. Johnson is the recipient of an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award from NIEHS and Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program award from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Johnson is currently leading an inhalation toxicology project within the Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center.

Norbert Kaminski, Ph.D., Michigan State University (kamins11@msu.edu)
Norbert E. Kaminski, Ph.D. is the Director for the Institute for Integrative Toxicology and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Michigan State University. Research being conducted in his laboratory is in the general areas of immunopharmacology and immunotoxicology and encompasses a number of extramurally funded projects. A major emphasis of all of the projects is the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms for impairment of signal transduction cascades and gene expression during lymphocyte activation by drugs and chemicals. Dr. Kaminski leads the Michigan State University SRP Center. He received his B.A. in Chemistry in 1978 from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, and his M.S. in Toxicology in 1981 and Ph.D. in Toxicology and Physiology in 1985 from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Brian Teppen, Ph.D., Michigan State University (teppen@msu.edu)
Brian Teppen, Ph.D., is a soil chemist at the Michigan State University who works mostly on mechanisms for sorption of organic pollutants to soil particles (such as clay minerals and soil organic matter) and how that sorption influences bioavailability of the pollutants. He has a B.S. in Agronomy and a Ph.D. in Soil Chemistry from the University of Arkansas.

Brian Johnson, Ph.D., Michigan State University (john3582@msu.edu)
Brian Johnson, Ph.D., specializes in the design, manufacturing, automation and testing of human derived models of development and disease to study intercellular signaling. Johnson Lab employs digital manufacturing to construct biomimetic microenvironments that recapitulate intercellular signaling in development and disease. The lab's translational research goals are to develop strategies and enabling technologies that increase precision in the treatment of disease and to identify chemical exposures that lead to birth defects in vulnerable populations.

Vasilis Vasiliou, Ph.D., Yale University (vasilis.vasiliou@yale.edu)
Vasilis Vasiliou, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Yale University. He received his BSc in Chemistry (1983) and PhD in Biochemical Pharmacology (1988) from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Dr. Vasiliou has established an internationally-recognized research program that has been continuously funded by NEI/NIH and NIAAA/NIH since 1997, and recently NIEHS. His research interests include the etiology and molecular mechanisms of environmentally-induced human disease, such as liver disease, obesity & diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Vasiliou is the director of the NIEHS-funded P42 Yale Superfund Research Center and also the director of the NIAAA-funded R24-Resource Center for Mouse Models and Metabolomics Tools to Investigate Alcohol Metabolism and Tissue Injury. Dr. Vasiliou has published over 250 papers and edited three books on Alcohol and Cancer. Dr. Vasiliou is the editor of Human Genomics and serves on the editorial boards of several toxicology and visual sciences journals.

Ying Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Yale University (ying.chen@yale.edu)
Ying Chen, M.D., Ph.D., has a broad background in environmental genetics and molecular toxicology, with specific training and expertise in redox biology, oxidative stress related diseases, and transgenic mouse models of redox dysregulation. Her research over the past ten years utilizes unique animal models and applies the system biology approach integrating multi-omics data and histopathology to understand the mechanistic roles of redox homeostasis in disease conditions related to environmental and dietary exposures.

Jaehong Kim, Ph.D., Yale University (jaehong.kim@yale.edu)
Jaehong Kim, Ph.D., is currently Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor of Engineering at Chemical and Environmental Engineering in School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale University. His areas of interest include: 1) environmental application of nanomaterials and single atom catalysts; 2) electrochemical technology for environmental and energy application; and 3) on-site synthesis of water treatment chemicals and catalytic advanced oxidation processes. Kim received B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical and biological engineering from Seoul National University in Korea in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.

Moderator:

Danielle Carlin, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., NIEHS Superfund Research Program (danielle.carlin@nih.gov)
Danielle Carlin, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., is a health scientist administrator with the NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP). Her position consists of providing guidance and advice to grantees applying for SRP Center grants and serving as the lead liaison between SRP trainees and the various training opportunities offered by SRP. Her current research interests include chemical mixtures, combined exposures, metals, asbestos, and xenobiotic metabolism. Dr. Carlin conducted her postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina, where she first studied aerosolized drugs/vaccines for treatment and prevention of tuberculosis for two years and then focused on the toxicological effects of exposure to Libby amphibole asbestos in the rat model. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Physiology. She also has a B.S. and M.S. in animal science from New Mexico State University.

• Slide Presentation for NIEHS Superfund Research Program Introduction - Michelle Heacock, Ph.D (846KB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for Presentation for Texas A&M SRP University SRP Center (9.79MB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for for Michigan State University SRP Center (2.55MB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for Yale University SRP Center (4.20MB/PDF)

Webinar Slides and References:

• Slide Presentation for NIEHS Superfund Research Program Introduction - Michelle Heacock, Ph.D (846KB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for Presentation for Texas A&M SRP University SRP Center (9.79MB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for for Michigan State University SRP Center (2.55MB/PDF)
• Slide Presentation for Yale University SRP Center (4.20MB/PDF)

Additional Resources:

• NIEHS Superfund Research Program Fact Sheet
• Register for Texas A&M University's HAZWOPER training.
• Register for Texas A&M University's Disaster Research workshop.
• NIEHS "Limited Competition: Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional)" funding opportunity, RFA-ES-23-001.
• NIEHS Superfund Research Program Funding Opportunities webinar on May 15, 2023, from 12-1 pm EDT.
• Email srpinfo@mail.nih.gov to be added to the SRP Risk e-Learning listserv.

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