The research of the University of Louisville Superfund Research Center was well-represented by having 15 posters presented by 9 trainees and 6 faculty members during the Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting November 16th through 18th, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.  This meeting was co-hosted by the University of Washington Superfund Research Program and our own UofL SRC.  Our Center played a large role in organizing all sessions of the meeting including the scientific, training, research translation/community engagement, and administrative sessions.  The UofL SRC helped make the meeting a success by not only partially funding the meeting, but also devising agendas for each session, inviting guest speakers, introducing novel ideas to make the meeting more productive, and arranging poster judging sessions.The overarching goal of the meeting was to highlight multidisciplinary innovation that addresses human and environmental health challenges related to Superfund and other hazardous waste sites which occurs within all of the SRP centers throughout the country.  There was a particular emphasis on research driven by early stage investigators and trainees at the meeting. 

Center director Sanjay Srivastava gave an opening talk about the work we are doing in our center.  PhD candidate and trainee Prasadanie Adhihetty was given the honor of speaking about her progress on Project 3 Development of Ultrasensitive Devices for VOC Measurement.  Her talk was entitled, “Development of a Gold Nanoparticles Chemiresistor Microarray for Benzene Sensing.”