| Columbia Superfund Basic Research Program Monthly Seminar Series and other events |
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Next Columbia SRP Seminar will be held on Monday December 21st. Details to be announced.
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Monday December 21st |
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2009
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| Monday December 21st |
| Next Columbia SRP Seminar will be held on Monday December 21st. Details to be announced. |
| Where: location TBD |
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2008
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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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Here is a more detailed schedule:
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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Here is the detailed agenda:
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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Here is the detailed agenda:
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 |
| The topics for the April seminar include
"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 |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic |
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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 |
| Invitees: All interested in the topic. |
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