{"id":17907,"date":"2024-12-09T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T22:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:46:22","slug":"steep-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/steep-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"STEEP Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<strong>STEEP 2024-2025 Seminar Series<\/strong>&nbsp;will explore PFAS and their health impacts through a series of expert-led presentations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17799\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/BRAUN-364x324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/BRAUN-364x324.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/BRAUN-149x133.jpg 149w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/BRAUN-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/BRAUN.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The series begins with&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Joseph Braun<\/strong>, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, on&nbsp;<strong>Wednesday, November 20, 2024<\/strong>, from&nbsp;<strong>11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET<\/strong>. Dr. Braun will present&nbsp;<em>PFAS Exposure and Its Health Impacts: Understanding Sources, Health Risks, and Interventions,<\/em>&nbsp;focusing on the relationship between PFAS exposure and long-term metabolic diseases, as well as approaches for assessing and mitigating these risks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17412\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3-364x493.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3-364x493.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3-98x133.jpg 98w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3-500x677.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/grandjean_philippe-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Following Dr. Braun,&nbsp;on <strong>Wednesday, December 11th, 2024<\/strong>, at <strong>12:00PM ET<\/strong>, join us for an eye-opening webinar, <em>PFAS Research: Facts, Fiction, and Fraud<\/em><strong>, <\/strong>&nbsp;featuring STEEP Project 1 lead Philippe Grandjean,&nbsp; founding editor of the journal&nbsp;<em>Environmental Health<\/em>, as he delves into the complex world of PFAS research. Although science is meant to be neutral and objective, Grandjean has uncovered numerous instances of bias and even falsification in PFAS-related studies. In some cases, research publications have been manipulated to support marketing agendas rather than scientific truth. In this webinar, Grandjean will provide real-world examples of how research can be misused and share his insights on how to critically assess publications to identify which may be misleading or untrustworthy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17800\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/TIMME-364x494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/TIMME-364x494.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/TIMME-98x133.jpg 98w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/TIMME-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/TIMME.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Dr. Alicia Timme-Laragy<\/strong>, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at UMass Amherst, will present virtually on&nbsp;<strong>Wednesday, January 8, 2025<\/strong>, at&nbsp;<strong>11:00 AM ET<\/strong>. Her talk,&nbsp;<em>Insights into Developmental Toxicity of PFAS from Zebrafish,<\/em>&nbsp;will investigate how zebrafish serve as a model for studying the developmental effects of PFAS, especially their disruption of critical biological pathways involved in oxidative stress.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for these insightful discussions on PFAS research and its broader public health implications.<\/p>\n<p>Additional speakers will be announced throughout the year. For more details and registration, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/news-events\/events\/\">URI STEEP SRP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STEEP 2024-2025 Seminar Series brings together experts to explore PFAS exposure, health risks, and cutting-edge research. Kicking off on November 20, 2024, Dr. Joseph Braun of Brown University will discuss PFAS and metabolic diseases. On December 11, 2024, Dr. Philippe Grandjean will examine bias in PFAS studies, and on January 8, 2025, Dr. Alicia Timme-Laragy of UMass Amherst will present on PFAS developmental toxicity using zebrafish models. Stay tuned for additional speakers and visit the URI STEEP SRP website for details and registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4786,"featured_media":17695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17917,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions\/17917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}