Conferences and activities

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Mark presents at the SOT Annual Meeting (March 2022)
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Sierra presents at the NC GEMS Annual Meeting, October 2019
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Mark presents at the NC GEMS Annual Meeting, October 2019
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Congrats to Dr Hudson! March 2019
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Evan Lamb presents his work, April 2016

2022

  • Mark presents at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA (March 2022)

2021

  • Sierra presents a poster at the College of Sciences Research Symposium (November 2021)

  • Our paper in Nature's Scientific Reports identifies novel pathways impacted by cadmium in neurodevelopment (August 2021)

  • Cassie presents at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (April 2021)

  • Mike, Mark and Sierra present at SOT (March 2021)

2020

  • The lab participates in the International Genomic Imprinting conference. Mike gives a talk on novel roles for imprinted genes in liver disease (October 2020)

  • Mark gives a poster presentation at the Mountains West SOT meeting and a lightning talk at the NC SOT meeting (September 2020)
 
  • Sierra gives a talk at the Mountains West SOT meeting and a lightning talk at the NC SOT meeting (September 2020)
 
  • The lab has been awarded a new R01 from NIEHS! This 5 year project will study the role of imprinted genes in programming liver disease after developmental exposure to cadmium (May 2020)

2019

  • The lab wins a feasibility study grant from UNC CGIBD to study epigenetic dysregulation of the Imprinted Gene Network in liver disease (October 2019)

  • Sierra and Mark both present posters at the NCSOT and NC GEMS Annual Meetings (NC, October 2019)

  • Mike and Marine participate in the UNC Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease Annual Symposium (NC, October 2019)

 
  • The Cowley Lab hosts Caroline, a high school teacher, as part of an NIEHS-sponsored program to boost EHS awareness among children (August 2019)
 
  • Mike and Marine participate in the Gordon Conference on Epigenetics (NH, August 2019)

  • Mike participates in the Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Annual Meeting (IA, June 2019)
   
  • Huge congratulations to Dr Katie Hudson on her successful PhD defense! (March 2019)
 
  • Another successful exhibit at Brain and Behavior Night at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences (March 2019)
 
  • The Cowley Lab participates in the legendary Krispy Kreme Challenge as part of Team Bereman Brave! (February 2019)

2018

  • Our new paper in Proc R Soc B explores how high fat diet influences the behavioral relationships between a mother and her offspring (November 2018)

  • The lab wins a CHHE Pilot Project Award to investigate a novel function for imprinted genes in the programming of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (June 2018)
 
  • Katie presents at the Keck Center Student & Postdoc Symposium! (May 2018)
 
  • Brain and Behavior Night at the Museum! Our 'epigenetics game' was a hit! See more pictures in our Photo Gallery (March 2018)
   
  • Mike co-organizes the 2018 CHHE Annual Symposium on 'Epigenetics, Environment, and Human Health' along with Prof. Randy Jirtle. Read the news article in NIH's Environmental Factor (February 2018)

2017

  • Mike gives a talk at the EMGS Annual Meeting describing findings from a whole genome bisulfite sequencing study in children exposed to cadmium (NC, September 2017)
 
  • The lab wins its first major grant from NIEHS! We will study how cadmium disrupts the methylome and imprinted gene regulation in development (September 2017)
 
  • Mike presents at the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics, showing that DNA methylation at imprinting control regions is highly sensitive to cadmium exposure (NH, August 2017)
 
  • Marine participates in the Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance workshop in Zurich where she presents a poster describing her recent work, and gives a talk on findings from her PhD (August 2017)

  • Marine presents a poster at the NC State Postdoctoral Research Symposium (May 2019)
 
  • Mike presents a poster at the SOT Annual Meeting (MD) on genome-wide DNA methylation changes associated with cadmium exposure in humans (March 2017)

2016

  • Katie and Mike participate in the Toxicoepigenetics workshop (VA), where Katie presents a poster on how cadmium affects DNA methyltransferase gene expression (October 2016)
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  • Marine presents a poster of her work on developmental exposure to maternal over-nutrition at the 2nd Danube Conference on Epigenetics, in Budapest (October 2016)
 
  • Katie receives a Provost Research Award to study how cadmium impacts expression of the DNA methyltransferases through modulating the structure of a key transcription factor (April 2016)
 
  • Evan L. presents his work on diet and maternal/offspring interactions at the NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium, and at the Keck Center Symposium (April 2016)

2015

  • The lab wins funding to study the interactions between endocrine disruptors and epigenetics in an ES cell model (August 2015)