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January 6, 2027
Air Pollution and Autism Risk
Mostafijur Rahman, PhD, MS
Mostafijur Rahman, PhD, MS, will share insights from his research on the impact of air pollution as a risk factor…
September 9, 2026
Heat and fire: Associations of prenatal wildfire smoke and heat exposures on autism development
David Luglio, PhD
Dr. Luglio presents on his two recent environmental epidemiological studies investigating the associations of wildfire smoke and heat exposure during…
October 29, 2025
Animal Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Foundations for Translational Therapeutic Research
Adrien Eshraghi, MD, MSc, FACS
Adrien Eshraghi, MD, MSc, FACS, a 2022 ARI grant recipient, discusses the ongoing translational research conducted in his lab. He considers…
January 10, 2020
Gene-Environment Interactions in Autism: Research Updates
Valerie W. Hu, Ph.D.
Valerie W. Hu, Ph.D., discusses gene-environmental interactions pertaining to autism. She describes how integrative genomics studies on autism led to…
June 6, 2018
Prenatal stress and neurodevelopment
David Beversdorf, MD
Dr. Beversdorf discusses prenatal stress and its implication in autism etiology. He provides a brief history of autism heredity, epigenetics,…
January 24, 2018
Environmental Influences and Autism
Jamie Dewitt, PhD
Environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors all play a role in determining the risk of autism and some of these effects…
October 18, 2017
Folate Receptor Antibodies Treatment Implications
Edward Quadros, PhD
Dr Edward Quadros outlines the Rebuilt Folate Deficiency Syndrome and how to test for such deficiencies in autism. He discusses…
January 26, 2017
Environmental Toxins and Autism — 2017
Pamela Lein, PhD
Pamela Lein, PhD, discusses why we must consider gene-environment interactions in autism pathogenesis and what evidence exists showing the impact…
September 30, 2015
Autism or Autisms: What is the Default Position?
Manuel Casanova, PhD
Cassanova notes the transitions from understanding autism as a unitary disorder with a common cause to understanding it as a…