A thought-provoking “Profiling Environmental Exposures in Human Cohort Data” workshop was organized at EMBL Heidelberg. Co-organised by Oliver Stegle (EMBL Heidelberg), Annette Peters (Helmholtz Munich) and Amy Foreman (EMBL-EBI), the workshop brought together experts across environmental epidemiology, exposomics, metabolomics, toxicology, fundamental biology, and genomics to discuss current efforts and future needs to capture environmental exposure impacts on human health.
Through a series of presentations and discussions, a range of topics from DNA methylation and microbiome-mediated drug metabolism to identifying markers of disease including depression and cancer were explored. The workshop was a great opportunity for knowledge exchange and sparked a number of collaborative opportunities going forward.
EIRENE was represented by the National Nodes - Austria (Benedikt Warth), Czech Republic (Jana Klánová and Elliott Price), France (Robert Barouki), Spain (Lea Maitre) and Sweden (Jonathan Martin).
In their latest study, scientists from RECETOX (MUNI), the University at Buffalo in the U.S., the National Institute of Public Health in Prague, and University College London in the U.K. found that education plays a role in protecting lung health during the aging process.
From November 5–7, 2024, we participated in the annual meeting of the European consortium ACTRIS. This event serves as a key platform for regular partner meetings, fostering collaboration, sharing the latest updates and experiences, and discussing critical topics related to the development and operation of the ACTRIS research infrastructure.
