Dr. Dana Dolinoy serves as NSF International Chair of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health as well as Director of the Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) Center. She leads the Environmental Epigenetics and Nutrition Laboratory, which investigates how nutritional and environmental factors interact with epigenetic gene regulation to shape health and disease. 

Dr. Dolinoy holds a PhD in Genetics and Genomics and Integrated Toxicology from Duke University, and MSc in Public Health from Harvard University, and serves as Associate Editor of Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Epigenetics, and Toxicological Sciences, and served as Chair of the Gordon Research Conference in Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity. She has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings and authored more than 150 peer reviewed scientific manuscripts and 10 book chapters. 

In 2011, Dr. Dolinoy received the Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award from the American Society for Nutrition and the Classic Paper of the Year Award from Environmental Health Perspectives. In 2015, she received a NIH Director’s Transformative Award to develop piRNA epigenetic editing technologies and in 2021 received the Society of Toxicology Leading Edge in Basic Sciences Award and has recently co-edited the book ToxicoEpigenetics: Core Principles andApplications.

Our bimonthly Science Seminar is open to everyone, providing a great way to stay current on the latest work in Environmental Health Sciences. Often, we feature presenters that received an EHS Award providing an update on their projects followed by a discussion.