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CATEGORIES:Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The University Research Corridor - Michigan State University, t
 he University of Michigan and Wayne State University - will host an all-da
 y conference on "Environmental Health Sciences" on Wednesday, January 20, 
 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Wayne State's McGregor Memorial Confer
 ence Center in Detroit, Michigan.
The goal of the conference is to develo
 p inter-institutional, multidisciplinary research collaborations in enviro
 nmental health science problems important to Michigan and the U.S.
Dr. Li
 nda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health S
 cience of the National Institutes of Health and the National Toxicology Pr
 ogram will be the keynote speaker. As NIEHS and NTP director, Dr. Birnbaum
  oversees a $730 million budget that funds multidisciplinary biomedical re
 search programs, prevention, and intervention efforts that encompass train
 ing, education, technology transfer, and community outreach. The NIEHS sup
 ports more than 1,240 research grants.
The afternoon will consist of brea
 kout sessions with the following-topics:

Air Pollution and Adverse Heal
 th Outcomes
Environmental Influences on Obesity and Chronic Diseases
Env
 ironmental Contaminants and Human Reproduction
Environmental Contaminants
 , Pediatric Health and the National Children’s Study
Epidemiology/E
 pigenetics/ Biomonitoring/lLarge Tissue Banks in Human Health
Great Lakes
  Urban Watersheds and Human Health
Halogenated Hydrocarbons and Disease I
 nteractions
Human Health Implications of Climate Change
Nano Materials a
 nd Health Effects
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DTSTART:20100120T083000
LOCATION:Community Arts AuditoriumMcGregor Conference Center
SUMMARY:University Research Corridor Environmental Health Sciences Conferen
 ce
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URL:http://events.wayne.edu/view/17187/date/72834
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