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Seminars

Each student presents his or her research findings once per year in the internal Molecular Toxicology seminar series. We also have a seminar series of distinguished toxicology speakers as outlined below.

Fall 2022 Molecular Toxicology Seminars

Aaron Chapman, PhD
Chief of Staff and Project Manager of Biologics, West Pharmaceutical Sciences
"A Toxicologist's Journey from Academia to the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Wednesday October 26, 2022


Hakeem Lawal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Delaware State University
"Drosophila as a System for Modeling Toxin Interactions Relevant to Parkinson's Disease
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Past Molecular Toxicology ​Seminars

Julie Castañeda, PhD
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care (DPACC), US Food and Drug Administration
"The Role of Toxicology in FDA-Approved Therapeutics"
Wednesday, December 1, 2021


Jonathan Jacobs, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor-in-residence, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Air pollution as a contributing factor to intestinal dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disease"
Wednesday, November 24, 2021


Tian Xia, MD, PhD
Professor, California NanoSystems Institute, Department of Medicine, UCLA
"All Roads Lead to Rome: Diverse Mechanisms of Nanomaterial-Induced Cell Death"
Wednesday, October 13, 2021


Scott Ryan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario
"The Molecular Basis of Agrochemical Exposure in the onset of Neurodegenerative Disease"
Monday, May 11, 2020


Hae-Ryung Park, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University
"Mechanisms Underlying the Effect of Environmental Exposures on Neurodevelopment"
Monday, April 27, 2020


Wentao Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Genome-Wide Mapping of Environmentally Induces DNA Damage and Repair at Single-Nucleotide Resolution in Humans"

Monday, April 20, 2020


David Krantz, MD, PhD
Professor in Residence,  Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
“Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease”
Thursday, December 5, 2019


Olivia Ellis, MS, MPH, REHS
PhD Student, Environmental Health Sciences Department, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
"Methods for Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship"
Thursday, November 21, 2019


Christine Samuel-Nakamura, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UCLA
“Meta(loids) in American Indian Tea”
Thursday, November 14, 2019


Yinsheng Wang, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside
“Repair and Biological Consequences of Structurally Defined DNA Lesions in Human Cells”
Thursday, November 7, 2019


Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAP, Hon AIA, Hon ASLA
Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health Sciences Department,  Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
“Environmental Public Health - It touches All of Life: What could be more fascinating or important?”
Thursday, October 31, 2019


Harry Allen, BS, MS
On-scene Coordinator and LA Team Lead, Emergency Response Section, EPA Region 9
"Advances in Understanding Microplastic Pollution in the Environment"
Thursday, October 24, 2019


Frank Pajonk, MD, PhD
Professor, Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA
"Radiation and Cellular Plasticity"
Thursday, October 17, 2020


Stacy Farfan, MP, and Susie Santilena, MS, PE
LA River Works, Mayor’s Office, Los Angeles
"Solving a Water Puzzle in LA: Balancing Local Water Goals and LA River Revitalization"
Thursday, October 10, 2019


Jian Li, MD, PhD
Professor of Work and Health,  Environmental Health Sciences Department and School of Nursing, UCLA
"Psychosocial Stress in the Workplace: What to Know, What to Do"
Thursday, October 3, 20169


David Rojas-Rueda, MD, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Colorado State University
"Health Impacts of Urban and Transport Policies: European and Latin-American Examples"
Thursday, September, 2019

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