Wednesday, June 10, 2026
4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 100, Room 229
9 am - 2:30 pm with reception to follow
The EDGE Center hosted our annual symposium on June 10th, 2026. This all-day in-person event included dynamic speakers and networking opportunities. We highlighted the work of our recent EDGE pilot projects, elevated the work that has resulted from past pilot awards, and looked forward to the next chapter of the EDGE Center. The UW community was welcomed to attend.
After the Symposium, please take our annual EDGE member survey and provide feedback on the Symposium.
Agenda
8:45 AM | Coffee, registration
9:00 AM | Joel Kaufman, EDGE Director, Welcome and introduction to day, new EDGE elements
9:15 AM | Recent EDGE Pilot reports
- Katya Cherukumilli • Collectively Addressing Lead Contamination of Drinking Water in Washington State Schools
- Joan Casey and Marissa Childs • Satellite-based Machine Learning Estimates of Freshwater Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms and Links to Incident Dementia in California
- Lisa Maves • Defining novel gene/environment interactions that lead to embryonic heart defects
- Alison Paquette and Samantha Lapehn • Development of a phthalate-disrupted placental multi-omic network
- Catherine Karr and Allison Sherris • Development and Validation of a Spatial Model of Insecticide Exposure in the Yakima Valley
- Yijie Geng • A zebrafish platform for assessing whole-body epigenetic toxicity of environmental toxicants at single cell resolution
10:50 AM |Break
11:00 AM | Collaborative translational research teams (CTRTs) break-out groups
11:45 PM |Group photo, lunch
12:45 PM | Pilot successes
- Ashleigh Theberge • Decentralized longitudinal transcriptomic studies using homeRNA: A framework for studying the effects of the exposome and wildfire smoke
- Libin Xu • The impact of quaternary ammonium compounds on gut microbiome and gut-liver interactions
- Trang VoPham • Spatiotemporal exposure modeling for solar jetlag
- Catherine Karr and Sarah Benki • From Pilot to R01s: promoting children’s environmental health research in Kenya
- Edmund Seto • Mobile Monitoring of Air Pollution
2:10 PM | EDGE Awards
2:30 PM | Social hour on 2nd floor patio (weather permitting)