Environmental Toxicology

Environmental Toxicology: is the study of the effects of chemicals on human health and the environment.

Webinars

SEP 12, 2018 6:00 AM PDT

SEP 12, 2018 6:00 AM PDT

Advancing Metagenomic Tools for Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance...

Next-generation DNA sequencing has opened new possibilities for microbial water quality monitoring, particularly for addressing emerging concerns like antibiotic resistance and opportunistic...

Speaker: Amy Pruden, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology and Immunology 2018

JUN 21, 2018 7:30 AM PDT

JUN 21, 2018 7:30 AM PDT

Keynote Presentation: Paving the Path Towards Precision Medicine...

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...

Speaker: Andres Hurtado-Lorenzo, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine 2018

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

A Comprehensive Strategy for Residue Analysis in Cannabis and...

Pesticide residue screening is a pre-sale requirement for all states which have legalized the recreational or adult use of cannabis and cannabis related products. In the absence of guid...

Speaker: Rick Jordan

Presented at: Cannabis Sciences 2018Sponsored By: Agilent

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

Cannabis as Immunonotherapy for 21st Century Acquired Immune Deficiencies

It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...

Speaker: Judy Mikovits, PhD

Presented at: Cannabis Sciences 2018

MAR 29, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

MAR 29, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

Cannabis Testing; Making Life Easier in the Laboratory

Testing is performed on cannabis and cannabis based products to ensure both quality and safety. The types of assays conducted often fall into one of two categories; profiling and...

Speaker: Katherine Stenerson

Presented at: Cannabis Sciences 2018

MAR 28, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

MAR 28, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

Sampling for Cannabis Testing

Compliance testing is the key to getting your cannabis products to market. But also ensuring your product safety and label accuracy require not only good laboratory analyses, but consis...

Speaker: Shawn Kassner

Presented at: Cannabis Sciences 2018

MAR 22, 2018 10:30 AM PDT

MAR 22, 2018 10:30 AM PDT

Measuring Cortisol in Clinical Settings: Pitfalls, Challenges...

March 22, 2018 09:00AM PST, 1:30 pm EST Cortisol plays a central role in the diagnosis of adrenal excess/insufficiency and in theassessment of stress adaptation and relate...

Speaker: LiSheng Chen, PhD, DABCC, FABC

APR 19, 2017 4:00 AM PDT

APR 19, 2017 4:00 AM PDT

WEBINAR: Patient Derived Micro Tumor systems: Future Trends towards...

DATE: April 20th, 2017TIME: 10:00AM SGT, 11:00AM KST, 12:00PM AEST, 2:00PM NZSTWith increasing breadth and depth of genomics studies across a range of cancers, it is now apparent that t...

Speaker: Giridharan Periyasamy, PhD

Sponsored By: PerkinElmer

DEC 14, 2016 7:30 AM PST

DEC 14, 2016 7:30 AM PST

Advances in modeling human diseases using induced pluripotent...

DATE: December 14, 2016 TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ET A major hurdle in developing relevant disease models for drug discovery is access to the healthy and diseased tissue of interest; induc...

Speaker: T.K. Feaster, PhD , Kile Mangan, PhD

Sponsored By: Cellular Dynamics, Cellular Dynamics

SEP 08, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

SEP 08, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

Plant Viruses: Everywhere and Often Mutualistic

Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...

Speaker: Marilyn Roossinck, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology & Immunology

SEP 07, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

SEP 07, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

Biofilm Diversity and Ecology

It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...

Speaker: Matthew Fields, CBE

Presented at: Microbiology & Immunology

SEP 07, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

SEP 07, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

Exploring the Great Indoors: Relevance of the Built Environment...

The human body is populated with trillions of microorganisms, collectively termed the human microbiome, that play vital roles in health including nutrition and metabolism, immune development,...

Speaker: Roxana Hickey, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology & Immunology

SEP 07, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

SEP 07, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

Keynote Speaker: You Want Me to Culture What? : Challenging Requests...

In an era of healthcare reform and evidenced-based medicine, it is important to use the most clinically relevant and cost effective methods in all aspects of microbiology. This session will c...

Speaker: Amy Leber, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology & Immunology

SEP 07, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

SEP 07, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

Invisible Influence: How the indoor microbiome influences health

The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...

Speaker: Jack Gilbert, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology & Immunology

FEB 24, 2016 9:00 AM PST

FEB 24, 2016 9:00 AM PST

Keynote Presentation - Progress in the Precision Medicine Initiative

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI) (link is external) in his State of the Union address. Through advances in research, technology and...

Speaker: Kathy Hudson, PhD

Presented at: Precision Medicine 2016

DEC 02, 2015 8:00 AM PST

DEC 02, 2015 8:00 AM PST

WEBINAR: Novel Psychoactive Substances: challenges and choices...

Live Webinar: December 2, 2015 8:00am PST In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of new designer drugs designed to mimic the effects of controlled substances. &n...

Speaker: Julia Pearson, PhD, DABFT

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo Fisher Scientific

OCT 28, 2015 11:00 AM PDT

OCT 28, 2015 11:00 AM PDT

The Hidden Effects of Epigenetic Discoveries

DATE: October 28th, 2015TIME: 11am Pacific time, 2pm Eastern timeNew discoveries uncover that exposure to current environmental, dietary, behavioral, and medical conditions can significantly ...

Speaker: Jeffrey Kim, PhD , Christopher Scharer, PhD , Carlos Barrero, MD

Sponsored By: Rockland antibodies and assays, Rockland antibodies and assays

SEP 03, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

SEP 03, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

Challenges of Natural Preservative Application

Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...

Speaker: Philip Geis, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 03, 2015 12:00 PM PDT

SEP 03, 2015 12:00 PM PDT

CSPA Microbiology Preservative Subcommittee (MPS): Supporting...

Consumer, Household, and Industrial (CH&I) formulations have increasingly driven towards more environmentally acceptable ingredients within water-based formulations, microbial control str...

Speaker: Tony Rook

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 02, 2015 3:00 PM PDT

SEP 02, 2015 3:00 PM PDT

Fundamentals and Clinical Applications of Biofilms and Rapid Diagnostic...

Biofilm is an ancient and preferred mode of growth for microbes with 99% of all microbes residing in a biofilm. Biofilm is characterized by a community of microbes (usually polymicrobial ofte...

Speaker: Randall Wolcott, MD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 02, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

SEP 02, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

How Anthropogenic Chemicals are Altering the Microbial World

The world–as microbes perceive it–is composed of physical and chemical stimuli. These stimuli create conditions that result in life or death for microbes, affecting their survival...

Speaker: Erica Hartmann, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 02, 2015 10:30 AM PDT

SEP 02, 2015 10:30 AM PDT

Control Experiments for Reproducible Microbiome Research

Rapid advances in sequencing technology and spectroscopy have led to new measurements of the microbiome. Labs make choices based on their environment of interest and the questions they wish t...

Speaker: J. Paul Brooks, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 02, 2015 9:00 AM PDT

SEP 02, 2015 9:00 AM PDT

Keynote: Immunology and the Microbiome

The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...

Speaker: Jack Gilbert, BSc, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 02, 2015 7:30 AM PDT

SEP 02, 2015 7:30 AM PDT

Keynote: The Science of Biofilm Control with Antimicrobial Agents

This presentation will discuss fundamental physical, chemical, and biological concepts important to understanding control of detrimental biofilms. Four phenomena that are important in the act...

Speaker: Phil Stewart, PhD

Presented at: Microbiology

SEP 12, 2018 6:00 AM PDT

Advancing Metagenomic Tools for Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance...

Next-generation DNA sequencing has opened new possibilities for microbial water quality monitoring, particularly for addressing emerging concerns like antibiotic resistance and opportunistic...

JUN 21, 2018 7:30 AM PDT

Keynote Presentation: Paving the Path Towards Precision Medicine...

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

A Comprehensive Strategy for Residue Analysis in Cannabis and...

Pesticide residue screening is a pre-sale requirement for all states which have legalized the recreational or adult use of cannabis and cannabis related products. In the absence of guid...

MAR 29, 2018 12:00 PM PDT

Cannabis as Immunonotherapy for 21st Century Acquired Immune Deficiencies

It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...

MAR 29, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

Cannabis Testing; Making Life Easier in the Laboratory

Testing is performed on cannabis and cannabis based products to ensure both quality and safety. The types of assays conducted often fall into one of two categories; profiling and...

MAR 28, 2018 9:00 AM PDT

Sampling for Cannabis Testing

Compliance testing is the key to getting your cannabis products to market. But also ensuring your product safety and label accuracy require not only good laboratory analyses, but consis...

MAR 22, 2018 10:30 AM PDT

Measuring Cortisol in Clinical Settings: Pitfalls, Challenges...

March 22, 2018 09:00AM PST, 1:30 pm EST Cortisol plays a central role in the diagnosis of adrenal excess/insufficiency and in theassessment of stress adaptation and relate...

APR 19, 2017 4:00 AM PDT

WEBINAR: Patient Derived Micro Tumor systems: Future Trends towards...

DATE: April 20th, 2017TIME: 10:00AM SGT, 11:00AM KST, 12:00PM AEST, 2:00PM NZSTWith increasing breadth and depth of genomics studies across a range of cancers, it is now apparent that t...

DEC 14, 2016 7:30 AM PST

Advances in modeling human diseases using induced pluripotent...

DATE: December 14, 2016 TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ET A major hurdle in developing relevant disease models for drug discovery is access to the healthy and diseased tissue of interest; induc...

SEP 08, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

Plant Viruses: Everywhere and Often Mutualistic

Virus Ecology is a field that is gaining momentum, fueled in part by metagenomic studies from many environments previously ignored. Biodiversity studies of plant viruses show that they...

SEP 07, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

Biofilm Diversity and Ecology

It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...

SEP 07, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

Exploring the Great Indoors: Relevance of the Built Environment...

The human body is populated with trillions of microorganisms, collectively termed the human microbiome, that play vital roles in health including nutrition and metabolism, immune development,...

SEP 07, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

Keynote Speaker: You Want Me to Culture What? : Challenging Requests...

In an era of healthcare reform and evidenced-based medicine, it is important to use the most clinically relevant and cost effective methods in all aspects of microbiology. This session will c...

SEP 07, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

Invisible Influence: How the indoor microbiome influences health

The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...

FEB 24, 2016 9:00 AM PST

Keynote Presentation - Progress in the Precision Medicine Initiative

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI) (link is external) in his State of the Union address. Through advances in research, technology and...

DEC 02, 2015 8:00 AM PST

WEBINAR: Novel Psychoactive Substances: challenges and choices...

Live Webinar: December 2, 2015 8:00am PST In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of new designer drugs designed to mimic the effects of controlled substances. &n...

OCT 28, 2015 11:00 AM PDT

The Hidden Effects of Epigenetic Discoveries

DATE: October 28th, 2015TIME: 11am Pacific time, 2pm Eastern timeNew discoveries uncover that exposure to current environmental, dietary, behavioral, and medical conditions can significantly ...

Speaker: Jeffrey Kim, PhD , Christopher Scharer, PhD , Carlos Barrero, MD

Sponsored By: Rockland antibodies and assays, Rockland antibodies and assays

SEP 03, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

Challenges of Natural Preservative Application

Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...

SEP 03, 2015 12:00 PM PDT

CSPA Microbiology Preservative Subcommittee (MPS): Supporting...

Consumer, Household, and Industrial (CH&I) formulations have increasingly driven towards more environmentally acceptable ingredients within water-based formulations, microbial control str...

SEP 02, 2015 3:00 PM PDT

Fundamentals and Clinical Applications of Biofilms and Rapid Diagnostic...

Biofilm is an ancient and preferred mode of growth for microbes with 99% of all microbes residing in a biofilm. Biofilm is characterized by a community of microbes (usually polymicrobial ofte...

SEP 02, 2015 1:30 PM PDT

How Anthropogenic Chemicals are Altering the Microbial World

The world–as microbes perceive it–is composed of physical and chemical stimuli. These stimuli create conditions that result in life or death for microbes, affecting their survival...

SEP 02, 2015 10:30 AM PDT

Control Experiments for Reproducible Microbiome Research

Rapid advances in sequencing technology and spectroscopy have led to new measurements of the microbiome. Labs make choices based on their environment of interest and the questions they wish t...

SEP 02, 2015 9:00 AM PDT

Keynote: Immunology and the Microbiome

The human race, like all macrobiological life, evolved in a sea of microbes. There was no way to keep the bacterial and archaeal hoards at bay, so instead life evolved mechanisms to live with...

SEP 02, 2015 7:30 AM PDT

Keynote: The Science of Biofilm Control with Antimicrobial Agents

This presentation will discuss fundamental physical, chemical, and biological concepts important to understanding control of detrimental biofilms. Four phenomena that are important in the act...