Identifying Effects in Brain of Early Chronic Low-Level Lead Exposure: a Translational Approach

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Timezone:

EST

PRESENTER:

Christina Sobin, PhD

Associate Professor

J. Edward and Helen M.C. Stern Professorship in Neuroscience

Department of Biology

Department of Psychology

Department of Public Health Sciences

Border Biomedical Research Center, Toxicology Unit

University of Texas at El Paso

Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University, New York

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

To understand the meaning of translational research.
To understand how a translational approach for the problem of early chronic exposure to low-level lead exposure informs the development of an animal model.
To understand two pathways by which low-level lead exposure might alter brain structure and function.

16 January 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm America/Los_Angeles