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Dana Dolinoy, Ph.D., is a professor of Environmental Health Science in the School of Public Health and the NSF international chair of environmental health sciences. Dr. Dolinoy has a broad background in genomics and toxicology, with specific interest in epigenetic research, including environmental epigenomics and the developmental origins of health and disease. Her research integrates the work of toxicologists, epidemiologists, and bioinformaticians to fully characterize effects of environmental factors on the epigenome while developing precision environmental epigenomics tools for the wider toxicological research and therapeutic communities, with a particular focus on metabolic syndrome, neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer. Additionally she serves as the director of the University of Michigan NIEHS P30 Core Center, entitled 'Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Diseases' (M-LEEaD) and as faculty director of the Michigan Medical Center's Epigenomics Core. Overall, Dr. Dolinoy has a strong commitment to environmental and nutritional epigenomics research, especially as it relates to sensitive subpopulations, including those at risk for very early environmental insults that set the stage for adult disease risk, such as cancer.