The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences invites you to attend a Toxicology Scholars Colloquium on Monday, April 15, 2019, from 10:00am - 11:00am, Pharmacy/Biology Building(PBB), room 338
Colloquium Speaker: Gary Miller, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Colloquium Title: "Using the Exposome to Advance Toxicology"
Biography
Dr. Miller moved to Columbia University in August, 2018 after 16 years at Emory University. From 2009-2018 Dr. Miller was Associate Dean for Research in the Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Miller was the founding director of the HERCULES Exposome Research Center at Emory University, the first exposome-based research center in the U.S. He authored the first book on the topic, The Exposome: A Primer published by Elsevier. His research focuses on environmental drivers of neurodegeneration. His laboratory uses a variety of methods including transgenic mouse production, immunohistochemistry, neurotransmitter transport assays, high-resolution metabolomics, electrochemistry, and behavioral assays. His work is conducted in several experimental models from cultured neurons and C. elegans to mice and human studies. He is an advisor to several exposome-associated research entities, including the Human Biomonitoring for the European Union (HBM4EU). He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Toxicological Sciences, the official journal of the Society of Toxicology.
For more information, contact: Dr. Jose Manautou at 860-486-3852