Please join Wayne State University's Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES) for their upcoming seminar on May 9, 2024 at 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. EST. The seminar will be offered in person and virtually, and is free to attend; registration is required. The Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants prior to May 9.

The guest speaker will be Dr. Andres Cardenas, assistant professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University. Dr. Cardenas will present, "Epigenetic Insights into Health and Disease."

Abstract:

Recent developments of molecular, genomic and data science tools have allowed us to test complex hypotheses providing crucial insight on the relationship between the early-life environment and human health. This seminar will present data from epidemiological cohorts that illustrate the relationship between prenatal and early-life environmental exposures on the epigenome of children and their contribution to the developmental origins of health and disease. The studies presented will highlight the emerging key role of epigenetics, molecular biomarkers, and statistical approaches to study environmental mixtures in epidemiological studies.

Biography:

Dr. Andres Cardenas is an environmental epidemiologist and serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University. His research focuses on characterizing molecular and epigenetic biomarkers and the extent to which these alterations contribute to disease risk throughout the life course. His research utilizes computational and statistical approaches to investigate environmental chemical mixtures, biological aging biomarkers and fetal epigenetic programming in health and disease. His group has multiple studies investigating chemical and non-chemical stressors in early-life and subsequent health including; neurodevelopment, obesity, aging and immune function programming.