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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Xu Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occup
 ational and Environmental Health Sciences at Peking University since 2020.
  Dr. Gao received his bachelor's degree and M.Sc. from Fudan University\, 
 Shanghai\, China. Following this\, Dr. Gao pursued Ph.D. in epidemiology a
 t Heidelberg University\, Germany\, successfully completing the program in
  2018. Dr. Gao further received two years of postdoctoral training with Dr
 . Andrea Baccarelli at Columbia University\, US.\n\n \n\nAs an environment
 al epidemiologist\, he focuses on precision environmental health and human
  aging by integrating population-based data with genetic and epigenetic bi
 omarkers as well as other multi-omic biomarkers. Dr. Gao has published 70+
  peer-reviewed papers in journals of public health\, including Nature Agin
 g\, Nature Communications\, Nature Cardiovascular Research\, American Jour
 nal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine\, Environmental Health Persp
 ectives\, Environmental Science & Technology\, International Journal of Ep
 idemiology\, and European Journal of Epidemiology. He also serves as the s
 tatistical editor of Thorax\, on the editorial boards of Current Environme
 ntal Health Reports and The Innovation. He is leading and collaborating in
  several national and international funded projects including NSFC\, Natio
 nal Key R&D Program of China\, and China CDC.\n\n \n\nTitle of Talk: Linki
 ng environmental exposures to human health from the aging perspective\n\n 
 \n\nThe global shift toward an older population and the dramatically incre
 ased aging pace across the globe have sparked a growing interest in ‘hea
 lthy aging’. Environmental exposures including air pollution and climate
  change have been associated with our cognitive function and mental health
 \, but evidence for older adults is limited. Our research has revealed com
 pelling connections between air pollution\, a well-studied environmental h
 azard\, and the elevated risks of cognitive decline and psychiatric disord
 ers within cohorts of older adults. Further analyses have identified that 
 accelerated biological aging is the key mechanism by which the environment
 al insults trigger these disorders. However\, the biological mechanisms un
 derlying this accelerated environmental aging process remain unclear. In t
 his context\, our epigenetic epidemiological studies demonstrated that DNA
  methylation\, a key epigenetic modification\, has opened new doorways to 
 track individual-level environmental exposure and risks of aging-related h
 ealth outcomes. Our findings indicate that DNA methylation as a valuable r
 esource\, could potentially serve as an improved identification tool for p
 ersonalized strategies to prevent cognitive decline and mental health chal
 lenges in older adults to eventually foster healthy aging.\n\n \n\n \n\n \
 n\n \n\n \n\nTime: Oct. 16th\, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time \n\n \n\nPlease 
 register for the zoom using the link below\n\nZOOM Registration Link:\n\n 
 \n\nhttps://mountsinai.zoom.us/j/96115671217
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SUMMARY:Linking environmental exposures to human health from the aging pers
 pective- Dr. Xu Gao
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 al-exposures-to-human-health-from-the-aging-perspective-dr-xu-gao
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