Hosted by: SOT Inhalation and Respiratory Specialty Section
Registration is required for this free webinar
This webinar will showcase IRSS graduate students who were recipients of the 2025 IRSS Mary Amdur Award. These four graduate students were selected based on their SOT 2025 abstract, which best addressed the environmental health issues that were the focus of Dr. Mary Amdur’s career. Dr. Amdur was a pioneer in air pollution toxicology, who overcame gender, political, and scientific barriers to proclaim the potential for interactions between specific air pollutants.
Speakers:
· Brenna Baird, University of New Mexico: Wildfire Smoke-Induced Neuroinflammation and the Interventions to Prevent and Modulate Immune Cell Infiltration into the Brain
· Marc Rodriguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Sex Specific Effects of Wood Smoke Condensate Exposure on Cytokine Profiles and Transcriptional Pathways in Primary Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells
· Milica Pavlovic, University of Iowa: Toxicological Assessment Following Subacute Inhalation of Polyamide Micro- and Nanoplastics in a Female Murine Model.
· Mariana Saitas, Texas A&M University: The Return of the Mobile Air Monitoring MRAPID Van: Volatile Organic Compound Detections a Year After the East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment