Sadjad Fakouri Baygi, PhD, is a Postdoctoral fellow in the EMPH Department at Icahn School of Medicine since August 2020. Sadjad has received his PhD from Clarkson University (Potsdam, NY) in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for a thesis about discovery of emerging halogenated contaminants in Great Lakes fish. Sadjad’s research interests include computational mass spectrometry, PFAS molecular characterization, environmental chemistry, and chemodynamics. Sadjad has developed a number of computationally enhanced R packages for discovery of exposomics biomarkers in high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Sadjad also posted these R packages to CRAN repository for public use. Sadjad’s current projects are about applications of these software packages for discovery of exposomics compounds in human populations.
Title of Talk: Computationally enhanced tools for untargeted exposomics: an example for identification of emerging PFAS in pregnant women
Early detection workflows for exposomics compounds should be able to simultaneously maximize precision of exposomics biomarker detection in human populations, and minimize post-processing workloads due to copious amounts of generated mass spectrometry data. The focus of this presentation will be about computationally enhanced software packages that Sadjad has developed to address these objectives of early detection workflows. This presentation will be divided in two parts about IDSL.IPA and IDSL.UFA software packages. First, the IDSL.IPA software package will be presented with an example about how to find birth-related metabolites in cord blood samples. Next, the IDSL.UFA software package will be demonstrated with an example of discovery of chlorinated perfluorotriether alcohols (Cl-PFTrEAs) in pregnant women as an emerging PFAS.
Cecilia Alcala, PhD, MPH, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Pediatrics in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health (EMPH). Dr. Alcala earned her BA in Psychology from the Agnes Scott College, her MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is working with Dr. Maria Rosa and Dr. Kecia Carroll on the assessment of chemical and non-chemical stressors associated with lung function and respiratory outcomes.
Title of Talk: Chemical and Non- Chemical Stressors Associated with Lung Function and Respiratory Outcomes in Children
Starting in utero, exposure to both chemical and non- chemical stressors may impact lung function and respiratory outcomes, specifically asthma, wheeze, and allergic disease later in life. This talk will focus on three analyses: 1) longitudinal assessment of maternal depression and later life childhood asthma and wheeze and sex specific effects, 2) the association between prenatal phthalate exposure and childhood asthma and wheeze, and 3) the association
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