| Columbia Superfund Research Program Monthly Seminar Series and other events |
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Topics and presenters: Khalid Khan, Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology at Oregon Health and Science University, will present Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention for Reducing Arsenic Exposure in Rural Bangladesh and Alexander van Geen, Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University will give a talk on The new blanket survey of arsenic in tubewells of Araihazar: a step towards commercial testing throughout Bangladesh?
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Monday May 14th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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Health Sciences campus: Environmental Health Sciences Conference Room (eleventh floor, room 1101), Rosenfield Building, Columbia University, 722 West 168 Street, New York, NY. |
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2012
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| Monday May 14th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Topics and presenters: Khalid Khan, Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology at Oregon Health and Science University, will present Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention for Reducing Arsenic Exposure in Rural Bangladesh and Alexander van Geen, Lamont Research Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University will give a talk on The new blanket survey of arsenic in tubewells of Araihazar: a step towards commercial testing throughout Bangladesh?
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If you would like to join this seminar remotely, please send an email with "CU SRP May Webinar" in the subject line to <mgolden at ciesin dot columbia dot edu> by May 11th. An invitation to participate in the webinar will be sent to you.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Evaluation of a School-Based Intervention for Reducing Arsenic Exposure in Rural Bangladesh"
Khalid Khan
Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology
Oregon Health and Science University
khank at ohsu dotedu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"The new blanket survey of arsenic in tubewells of Araihazar: a step towards commercial testing throughout Bangladesh?"
Alexander van Geen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
avangeen at ldeo dot columbia dot edu
5:00pm Adjourn
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| Where: Health Sciences campus: Environmental Health Sciences Conference Room (eleventh floor, room 1101), Rosenfield Building, Columbia University, 722 West 168 Street, New York, NY. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Monday April 23rd 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Topics for the Columbia SRP seminar include: "Arsenic exposure, genetic susceptibility and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus" by David C. Christiani, Co-Principal Investigator of Harvard's SRP and Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics, Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, and "Arsenic in Vietnam's drinking water resources, exposure levels and mitigation" by Michael Berg, Research Group Leader with Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.
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Please note that this seminar is not accessible remotely. Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Arsenic exposure, genetic susceptibility and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus"
David C. Christiani
Harvard Superfund Research Program
Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health
dchris at hsph dot harvard dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
“Arsenic in Vietnam's drinking water resources, exposure levels and mitigation”
Michael Berg
Eawag
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology
michael dot berg at eawag dot ch
5:00pm Adjourn
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| Where: Comer Building, 1st floor conference room Columbia University Lamont Campus, 61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Monday March 19th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Akram Alshawabkeh, Co-Director of Northeastern University SRP, George A. Snell Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, will give an overview of the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT). Ivan Mihajlov, Graduate Research Fellow, Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will present: Contamination of a community well in Bangladesh: Where did the arsenic come from? |
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If you would like to join this seminar remotely, please send an email with "CU SRP March Webinar" in the subject line to <mgolden at ciesin dot columbia dot edu> by March 16th. An invitation to participate in the webinar will be sent to you on March 19th.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT)"
Akram Alshawabkeh
Co-Director of Northeastern University SRP
George A. Snell Professor of Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University
aalsha at coe dot neu dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Contamination of a community well in Bangladesh: Where did the arsenic come from?"
Ivan Mihajlov
Graduate Research Fellow
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University
mihajlov at ldeo dot columbia dot edu
5:00pm Adjourn
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Where: Pharmacology Library
William Black Medical Research Building, Room 724
Health Sciences Campus, Columbia University
650 West 168th Street, New York City |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Monday February 27th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
| Dr. Yan Zheng of City University of New York Queens College and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will present, "Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Arsenic Risks in Health, Water Supply and Agricultural Sector". |
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From 3pm to 4pm, Dr. Yan Zheng will give a presentation on "Challenges and Opportunities to Mitigate Arsenic Risks in Health, Water Supply and Agricultural Sector".
Occurrence of groundwater with elevated concentrations of arsenic is well recognized in several countries in South Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It has been estimated that about 50 million people are exposed to arsenic at concentration greater than 0.05 mg/L, the drinking water standard for most of these countries. In Bangladesh, 1 in 14 adult deaths is attributable to chronic exposure to arsenic at current exposure level, resulting in significant economic loss. Lowering exposure from drinking water is the most effective intervention strategy whereby coordinated efforts by the water supply and the health sectors can improve targeting the worst affected population.
When arsenic-laden groundwater is pumped for irrigation, arsenic accumulates in soil, and in turn, rice grains. This has been shown to reduce rice yield. Hence, it is only a matter of time that arsenic will have a significant impact on food security and food safety.
A key challenge in developing of a coordinated approach to support multi-sectorial implementation plans for arsenic mitigation is that it needs to be initiated by the highest level of the government. A regional dialogue among policy and decision makers and technical experts offers an opportunity towards re-defining the arsenic issue as being a multi-sectorial one, and to call on the highest level of political support from the government to address it with adequate financing. Such dialogue can also be used to articulate solutions drawn from experiences from countries in this region to be implemented in the near future.
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| Where: Columbia University Health Sciences Campus, Pharmacology Library, William Black Medical Research Building, 7th Floor, Room 724, 650 West 168th Street, New York City |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Monday December 19th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Topics for this Columbia SRP seminar include: "Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh" by Erica Field, Department of Economics (see paper), Duke University and "Arsenic and Cataracts" by Norman Kleiman, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. This seminar is accessible remotely, please see details. |
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If you would like to join this seminar remotely, please send an email with "CU SRP 2011 Webinar" in the subject line to <mgolden at ciesin dot columbia dot edu>. An invitation to participate in the webinar will be sent to you by December 16th.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh"
Erica Field
Department of Economics
Duke University
emf23 at duke dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Arsenic and Cataracts"
Norman Kleiman
Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
njk3 at columbia dot edu
5:00pm Adjourn
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| Where: Comer Building, 1st floor conference room Columbia University Lamont Campus, 61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Friday December 2nd 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Topics for the next Columbia SRP include: "Arsenic in Illinois Glacial Aquifers: Geochemistry and Removal at Water Treatment Plants" by Thomas R. Holm, Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute (PRI) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and "Updates on Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) and Bangladesh Vitamin E and Selenium Trial (BEST) studies in Bangladesh" by Habibul Ahsan, Director of Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago. This seminar is accessible remotely, please see details. |
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If you would like to join this seminar remotely, please send an email with "CU SRP Dec Webinar" in the subject line to <mgolden at ciesin dot columbia dot edu>. An invitation to participate in the webinar will be sent to you on December 1st.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00pm-4:00pm
"Arsenic in Illinois Glacial Aquifers: Geochemistry and Removal at Water Treatment Plants"
Thomas R. Holm
Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
trholm at illinois dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Updates on Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study (HEALS) and Bangladesh Vitamin E and Selenium Trial (BEST) studies in Bangladesh"
Habibul Ahsan
Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention and Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago
habib at uchicago dot edu
5:00pm Adjourn
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Where: Environmental Health Sciences Conference Room (eleventh floor, room 1101),
Rosenfield Building, Columbia University,
722 West 168 Street, New York, NY |
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| Monday October 17th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| "Who should make decisions about providing drinking water? An experiment with allocation of decision making authority in rural Bangladesh" by Malgosia Madajewicz, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University and "Glutathione and Arsenic Methylation in Bangladesh" by by Megan Niedzwiecki, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. The seminars will take place from 3pm to 5 pm. |
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3:00pm-4:00pm
"Who should make decisions about providing drinking water? An experiment with allocation of decision making authority in rural Bangladesh"
Malgosia Madajewicz
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University
malgosia at iri dot columbia dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Glutathione and Arsenic Methylation in Bangladesh"
Megan Niedzwiecki
Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
megan dot niedzwiecki at gmail dot com
5:00pm Adjourn
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| Where: Comer Building, 1st floor conference room Columbia University Lamont Campus, 61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics |
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| Monday September 19th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Topics for the September seminar include: "Arsenic and Respiratory Disease" by Matthew Perzanowski, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and "Direct evidence of contamination of a Pleistocene aquifer by incursion of high-arsenic groundwater in the Red River delta, Vietnam" by Alexander van Geen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.
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3:00 - 4:00 Arsenic and Respiratory Disease
Matthew Perzanowski
Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
4:00 - 4:05 Break
4:05 - 5:00 Direct evidence of contamination of a
Pleistocene aquifer by incursion
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River delta, Vietnam
Alexander van Geen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
5:00 Adjourn
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Where: Environmental Health Sciences Conference Room,
Allan Rosenfield Building, Room 1101,
Health Sciences Campus, Columbia University,
722 West 168th Street, New York City
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| Monday March 21st 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Open thesis defense: "Laboratory & field studies directed to accelerating arsenic remediation at a major US Superfund site in New Jersey" by Karen Wovkulich.
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| Where: Comer Building, 1st floor conference room Columbia University Lamont Campus,61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
| Invitees: Open to all |
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| Monday February 28th 3:00 pm - 5:00pm |
| Topics for the next Columbia SRP include "A Framework to Study Gene-Environment Interactions in Children" and "Impact of fecal contamination of shallow low-arsenic wells in Bangladesh on diarrheal disease". |
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3:00pm-4:00pm
"A Framework to Study Gene-Environment Interactions in Children"
Robert Wright
Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health
Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Boston
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
robert dot wright at channing dot harvard dot edu
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Impact of fecal contamination of shallow low-arsenic wells in Bangladesh on diarrheal disease"
Alexander van Geen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
avangeen at ldeo dot columbia dot edu
5:00pm Adjourn
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Where: Comer Building, 1st floor conference room
Columbia University Lamont Campus,61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
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| Monday January 24th 3:00 pm - 5:00pm |
| The topics for the January seminar include "Microbe-arsenic interactions in Asian and European aquifers: from mobilization to bioremediation" and "Effect of Arsenic on Histone Tail modifications". |
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3:00pm-4:00pm
"Microbe-arsenic interactions in Asian and European aquifers: from mobilization to bioremediation"
Jon Lloyd
Director of Research
School of Earth
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
jon dot lloyd at manchester dot ac dot uk
4:00pm-4:05pm Break
4:05pm-5:00pm
"Effect of Arsenic on Histone Tail modifications"
Max Costa
Professor and Chairman
Department of Environmental Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
max dot costa at nyumc dot org
5:00pm Adjourn
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| Where: Pharmacology Library, Black Building, Rm. 724, 650 West 168th Street, between Broadway and Fort Washington Ave, NYC |
| Invitees: Open to all |
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| Monday December 6th 2:45pm - 4:00pm |
| Dr. Courtney Kozul-Horvath from the Department of Immunology at Dartmouth Medical School will give a presentation on “Immunotoxic Effects of Developmental Arsenic Exposure". |
| Where: College of Physicians and Surgeons, 16th floor Conference Room 419, Columbia University Medical Center at 630 West 168th Street, New York City |
| Invitees: All interested in topic |
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| Monday October 18th 3:15 pm - 5:15pm |
| The topics for the October seminar include "The role of recharge in both flushing aquifers clean and mobilizing arsenic in Bangladesh" and "Mechanistic Work on Mn Neurotoxicity in Non-human Primates". |
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3:15pm-4:10pm
"The role of recharge in both flushing aquifers clean and mobilizing arsenic in Bangladesh"
Charles Harvey, PhD
Doherty Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
charvey at mit dot edu
4:10pm-4:20pm Break
4:20pm-5:15pm
"Mechanistic Work on Mn Neurotoxicity in Non-human Primates"
Tomás R. Guilarte, PhD
Leon Hess Professor and Chair
Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
trguilarte at columbia dot edu
5:15pm Adjourn
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| Where: Pharmacology Library, Room 724 of the William Black Medical Research Building, Columbia University Health Sciences Campus at 650 West 168th Street, New York City. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic. |
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| Monday March 22nd 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
| The topics for the March 22nd seminar include "Arsenical drugs in food animal production- where we should be, and how we'll get there" and "Sources, transformations, and mobility of roxarsone in the environment: Implications to risk assessment". |
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3:30PM-4:30PM
"Arsenical drugs in food animal production- where we should be, and how we'll get there"
Keeve E. Nachman, PhD, MHS
Science Director for Food Production, Health, and Environment
Center for a Livable Future
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
knachman at jhsph dot edu
4:30PM-4:35PM Break
4:35-5:30PM
"Sources, transformations, and mobility of roxarsone in the environment: Implications to risk assessment"
Benjamin C. Bostick, PhD
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
bostick at ldeo dot columbia dot edu
5:00PM Adjourn
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| Where: Hess Commons, 10th floor (entry level) of the Rosenfield Building, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University at 722 West 168th Street, New York City |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics. |
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| Monday December 21st 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| The Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program's next seminar will be held on Monday, December 21st. Dr. Yu Chen from NYU's School of Medicine will give a presentation on “Arsenic exposure, cardiovascular disease mortality, and the potential effect-modifiers”. The non-biomedical presentation will be posted soon. |
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| Where: Pharmacology Library, Room 724 of the William Black Medical Research Building, Columbia University Health Sciences Campus at 650 West 168th Street, New York City. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic |
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| Monday December 15th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| The Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program November Seminar will be held on Monday, December 15th. The speakers include Mrinal Kumar Sengupta from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Texas at Arlington and Leona Samson, Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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3:00PM-4:00PM "Groundwater Arsenic Contamination: An Overview on Magnitude of Calamity and Some Analytical Approaches for its Trace Level Detection in Environmental Samples" by Mrinal Kumar Sengupta (mrinalksengupta at gmail dot com)
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of Texas at Arlington
4:00PM-4:05PM Break
4:05-5:00PM "Gene expression in umbilical cord blood of As-exposed newborns" by Leona Samson (lsamson at MIT dot EDU) Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5:00PM Adjourn
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| Where: Pharmacology Library, Room 724 of the William Black Medical Research Building, Columbia University Health Sciences Campus at 650 West 168th Street, New York City. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic. |
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| Monday November 17th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| The Columbia University Superfund Basic Research Program November Seminar will be held on Monday, November 17th. The speakers include Matthew Polizzotto with the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and Richard Pilsner a Robert Wood Johnston Fellow at the University of Michigan. |
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3:00PM-4:00PM "Genomic Methylation of Peripheral Blood Leukocytes among Arsenic Exposed Maternal-Newborn Pairs"
Richard Pilsner (<rpils at umich dot edu>)
Robert Wood Johnston Fellow
University of Michigan
4:00PM-4:05PM Break
4:05-5:00PM "Coupled Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Processes Controlling Arsenic in Groundwater of Cambodia"
Matthew Polizzotto (<mattyp at stanford dot edu>)
School of Earth Sciences
Stanford University
5:00PM Adjourn
Please contact Daphnee Fromentin (845-365-8301) by Friday (11/14) if you will be arriving by car so that the security guard at the front gate will permit you to enter.
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| Where: Lamont Hall, Lamont Campus, Columbia University |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics. |
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| Monday September 15th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| The Columbia SBRP September Seminar will be held on Monday, September 15th. Presentations will be made by Khalid Khan from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and Yan Zheng from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. |
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3:00PM-4:00PM "Evaluation of an Elementary School-based Educational Intervention on Arsenic in Araihazar, Bangladesh: A Progress Report".
Khalid Khan <kmk2129 at columbia dot edu)
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
4:00PM-4:05PM Break
4:05-5:00PM "Arsenic in Bangladesh: A Geological and Human Perspective"
Yan Zheng (yzheng at ldeo dot columbia dot edu)
Department of Geochemistry
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
5:00PM Adjourn
The seminar is open to anyone interested in these topics.
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| Where: Columbia University Lamont Campus, Comer Building First Floor Conference Room, 61 Route 9W, Palisades New York. |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic |
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| Friday May 16th 11:00 am- Noon |
| Benjamin Bostick, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, will be presenting, "Coupled Iron and Sulfate Reduction Rates in Sediments, and Their Effect on Groundwater Arsenic Concentrations in Cambodia". |
Where: Comer Geochemistry Building, 1st Floor Seminar Room,
Lamont Campus |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic |
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| Monday April 21st 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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"Nutritional Influences on Arsenic Metabolism Among Children in Bangladesh" and "Effectiveness of Household-Level Arsenic Removal in Shahrasti, Bangladesh".
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Please contact Daphnee Fromentin (845-365-8301) by Friday (4/18) if you will be arriving by car so that the security guard at the front gate will permit you to enter.
Here is a more detailed schedule:
3:00PM-4:00PM "Nutritional Influences on Arsenic
Metabolism Among Children in
Bangladesh"
Megan Hall
(mh2825 at columbia dot edu)
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
4:00PM-4:05PM Break
4:05-5:00PM "Effectiveness of Household-Level
Arsenic Removal in Shahrasti,
Bangladesh"
Christine Marie George
(cmg2140 at columbia dot edu)
Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
5:00PM Adjourn
The seminar is open to anyone interested in these topics.
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Where: Lamont Hall
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
61 Route 9W
Palisades, New York |
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| Monday March 24th 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| The topics for the March seminar include "Arsenic and Rice: From Yield Reductions to Human Safety" and "Bangladesh Vitamin E and Selenium Trial (BEST): Current Progress and Challenges". |
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3:00PM-4:00PM "Arsenic and Rice: From Yield Reductions to Human Safety" by John M. Duxbury (jmd17 at cornell.edu), Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University
4:00PM-4:05PM Break
4:05-5:00PM "Bangladesh Vitamin E and Selenium Trial (BEST): Current Progress and Challenges" by Maria Argos (margos at health.bsd.uchicago.edu), Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
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Where: Lamont Hall
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
61 Route 9W
Palisades, New York |
| Invitees: All interested in the topics. |
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| Monday February 18th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
| The February Seminar, "Exposure from arsenic in rice: from Bangladesh to babies", will be presented by Dr. Andrew Meharg, Chair of Plant and Soil Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.
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If you would like more details on these topics, you may contact Dr. Meharg directly via e-mail (a dot meharg at abdn dot ac dot uk).
Additional information regarding Professor Meharg and his publications, can be found at his homepage on the University of Aberdeen website:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci/staff/details.php?id=a.meharg&filt=
His 2005 book, VENOMOUS EARTH: How Arsenic Caused the World's Worst Mass Poisoning, can be ordered online:
http://www.macmillanscience.com/1403944997.asp
For those interested, the University of Aberdeen is hosting the 20th New Phytologist Symposium on Arsenic: Unraveling its Metabolism and Speciation in Plants on 26-27 June 2008 (http://www.newphytologist.org/arsenic/default.htm).
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Where: Lerner Hall, Room 569
Columbia University, 2920 Broadway, New York City |
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