Agenda – 2023 USA – European Exposome Symposium


Location: Aula Magna in the Palazzo Calini ai Fiumi, Univ. of Brescia, Via delle Battaglie 58, 25122 Brescia, Italy
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Day #1 – Friday, 28 April 2023

Masters of Ceremonies
Megan Horton, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elena Colicino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

13:00     
Check In

13:30 – 13:50     
Welcome
Donatella Placidi, MD, Professor of Occupational Medicine, Department of Medico-Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

13:50 – 14:30
Keynote Address: A Vision for Operationalizing Exposomics
Richard Woychik, PhD, Director, U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program

14:30 – 14:40
Master of Ceremony
Megan Horton, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

14:40 – 15:20      
New advances in environmental exposure assessment for a changing climate
Itai Kloog, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

15:20 – 15:50     
Coffee Break (30 min)

15:50 – 16:30     
Mapping the methylation of repetitive elements to track the exposome effects on health: rationale of the MAMELI Study
Valentina Bollati, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan

16:30 – 17:10     
Data science approaches for estimating exposomic and phenotypic correlates of climate-related and extreme events  
Chirag Patel, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

17:10 – 17:50
Air pollution, exposomics, and women’s health
Lauren Petrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Sheba Medical Center

End of Day #1

Day #2 – Saturday, 29 April 2023

8:00 – 8:30          
Breakfast

8:30 – 8:40          
Welcome
Megan Horton, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

8:40 – 9:20          
Exposomic analysis of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease
Gary W. Miller, PhD, Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

9:20 – 10:00      
Ambient black carbon particles travel from maternal lungs to fetal organs, new tools for the exposome
Tim Nawrot, PhD, Professor, Center of Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium

10:00 – 10:20   
Break (20 min)

10:20 – 11:00
Individual and area level heat-vulnerability factors: evidence and relevance for prevention and adaptation plans
Francesca de’Donato, PhD, Senior Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service

11:00 – 11:40       
Using gWQS and BKMR to estimate the associations of particle components with health
Joel Schwartz, PhD, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:40 – 12:20
Novel epidemiological and data science methods for climate change research
Antonio Gasparrini, BSc, Mbiol, MSc, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

12:20 – 14:25
Poster Session and Lunch
Poster presenters should be at their poster by 13:00.

14:25 – 14:30
Afternoon Welcome
Elena Colicino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

14:30 – 15:10   
Future directions in tropical cyclone epidemiology, an emerging climate and health field
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, ScD, MSPH, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health 

15:10 – 15:50  
Interactive effects of heat and air pollution on mortality: innovative methodological approaches
Massimo Stafoggia, PhD, Senior Biostatistician, Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service

15:50 – 16:10  
Break (20 min)

16:10 – 16:50               
Climate change, environmental exposures and child respiratory health, and health inequities
Kecia N. Carroll, MD, MPH, Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, and Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

16:50 – 17:30    
Multi-omics signatures of the early life exposome and climate factors
Léa Maitre, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Childhood and Environment Program, Barcelona Institute for Global Health-ISGlobal, Spain

17:30 – 19:00
Reception to follow in the courtyard

End of Day #2

Day #3 – Sunday, 30 April 2023

8:00 – 8:30
Breakfast

8:30 – 8:40                    
Welcome     
Elena Colicino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Donatella Placidi, MD, Professor of Occupational Medicine, Department of Medico-Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia

8:40 – 9:20                    
Household Income as a Driver of the Early Life Exposome
Milena Maule, PhD, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin and AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza, CPO-Piemonte, Turin, Italy

9:20 – 10:00                    
Establishing an exposomic framework to study early life exposures to micro- and nano-plastics
Douglas I. Walker, PhD, Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

10:00 – 10:20                  
Break (20 min)

10:20 – 11:00               
Statistical exposomic models
Stefano Renzetti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Medico-Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia  
Stefano Calza, PhD, Full Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia

11:00 – 11:40            
Infectious diseases in a changing environment
Nicholas DeFelice, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and
Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:40 – 12:20               
Setting up the infrastructural landscape for human exposome research
Jana Klánová, PhD, Head, Environmental Chemistry and Modelling, Masaryk University

12:20-12:40               
Climate change, exposomics, and the practice of medicine
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   

12:40-12:50
Poster Awards
Robert O. Wright, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and Co-Director, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Francesco Castelli, MD, Rector, University of Brescia

End of Symposium