Hi all,

Reminder of the upcoming seminar and possibility to book a discussion time! We will contact the interested ones with more detailed schedule close to the visit on December 9.

Cheers,

Ritva

From: Ritva Saastamoinen <ritva.saastamoinen@oulu.fi>
Sent: maanantai 3. marraskuuta 2025 15.58
Subject: Visiting researcher seminar by Tanya Alderete, December 11

Guest seminar by Associate Professor Tanya Alderete, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

Thursday, December 11 at 15:15-16. Preceded by coffee/tea and a bite at the lobby (Aapistie 5B).

Place: Lecture hall F202

Welcome everyone! No pre-registration.

Dr. Alderete is hosted by Sylvain Sebert during her visit in Oulu (10.-11.12.). She wishes especially also to meet with younger researchers, so please feel free to contact me or Sylvain to book a time slot for a discussion.

Exploring How the Environment Shapes Health Across Critical Windows of Development Using Multi-Omics Approaches

Name: Tanya L. Alderete

Degree: PhD

Organizational Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering

Title/Position: Associate Professor

Title of Talk: Exploring How the Environment Shapes Health Across Critical Windows of Development Using Multi-Omics Approaches

Bio: Dr. Tanya L. Alderete is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her training spans clinical and translational research, environmental epidemiology, and microbiome research methods.

She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles addressing critical issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, neurodevelopment, and the adverse health impacts of environmental toxicants. Her research combines clinical and epidemiological approaches with multi-omics methods to investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic disease development. Areas of focus include air pollution, PFAS, and plastics. Notably, her work was among the first to demonstrate that air pollution exposure contributes to the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes in youth and alters the composition and function of the gut microbiome. Dr. Alderete has been recognized with a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the Health Effects Institute (HEI) Rosenblith New Investigator Award, multiple NIEHS R01 grants, and a Volkswagen Foundation Night Science Grant. She is also the recipient of the Tony McMichael Mid-Career Award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).

Projects

• HEI Rosenblith New Investigator Award: Air Pollutants and the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome During Early Life: Implications for Childhood Obesity
• NIEHS R01: Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and the Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome in Early Life: Implications for Obesity Risk in Children
• NIEHS R01: Pre- and postnatal exposure to air pollutants and the gut microbiome: Implications for brain development in early and mid-childhood

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/4819/tanya-alderete

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=W8FNCXIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Best wishes,

Ritva

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Ritva Saastamoinen

PhD, Adjunct Professor (Docent)

Coordinator, Profi8 Health Dimensions

Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Room 339B, Aapistie 5A

University of Oulu

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