EDC-NC, our regional working group of scientists working on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in North Carolina, had a very successful Second Annual Scientific Meeting. The event was held at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) on April 5th, 2019. The meeting consisted of three main sessions:
- EDCs and wildlife,
- EDCs and community outreach in North Carolina, and
- EDCs and epigenetics.
There were two Keynote speakers, Nsedu Witherspoon, of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), and Heather Stapleton of Duke University.
Awards were given to the best graduate student and post-doc posters.
The graduate student poster winners were 1) Thomas Jackson (NCSU) “Gestational exposure to ultra low doses of CdCl2 sex-specifically alters metabolic function and hepatic transcriptome in adult CD-1 mice” and 2) Bevin Blake (NIEHS/UNC) “Perfluoroalkyl substances induce adverse maternal fetal phenotypes and disrupt the placenta.”
The post-doc poster winners were 1) Iman Hassan (US EPA) “In vitro to in vivo extrapolation of high-throughput screening assay for thyroid peroxidase inhibition” and 2) Colette Miller (US EPA) “Per-implantation ozone exposure induces sexually dimorphic placental-fetal brain axis abnormalities.”
Also see the NIEHS Environmental Factor May 2019 article, “NC researchers circle on chemicals that disrupt hormones.”
Dr Linda Birnbaum, Director of NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) met with students over lunch to talk about opportunities in the environmental health field.
