SCEHSC/ShARP Seminar: Dr. Sue Fenton

Description
Join us for October’s SCEHSC & ShARP Joint Seminar, where Dr. Sue Fenton will be presenting her seminar “Playing the hand you are dealt: Latent reproductive health effects following gestational PFAS exposures.” She will be discussing the impacts of PFAS: PFAS are present in the blood of nearly all American newborns, so there is an urgent need to understand the extent of latent health effects and potential health biomarkers of disease. Numerous reproductive effects are known, but mechanisms are poorly characterized. The mammary gland appears to be particularly sensitive to some PFAS, and using this tissue as an example, new mechanisms have emerged.

Dr. Sue Fenton is Director of the Center for Human Health and the Environment and Professor of Biological Sciences at NC State University. She has worked on the health effects of PFAS for more than 2 decades with her previous research teams at the US EPA and NIEHS. She led the recent writing of the PFAS Report to Congress sections on animal toxicology and her current work aims to develop health-based predictive biomarkers for occupationally and chronically PFAS-exposed humans.

The seminar will be held at room 115/116 at Soto 1 at USC HSC.

Please register below to attend the seminar in-person or on Zoom. Please note that due date for lunch orders is noon on October 1st. After this, we will no longer accept lunch orders, but we will still take sign-ups for attendees both on Zoom and in person. Thank you!