Current Students

Kadijah Abston, M.S.

Research Interest: Define the information carriers in semen underlying Pb-induced transgenerational behavioral alterations.

Catherine Beamish

Research Interest: Developmental toxicity of methylmercury and other heavy metals

Tyler Bell

Research Interest: Investigating the role of proton sensing G-protein coupled receptors in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Janine Cubello

Research Interest: Studying the effects of lead exposure and gestational iron deficiency on neurodevelopment and cellular functioning in the central nervous system.

Kristina  Fenner

Research Interest: Studying the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells during viral infection

Jakob Gunderson, M.S.

Research Interest: Investigating the effect of methylmercury on adult Drosophila myogenesis via the Nrf2 pathway

Ian Krout

Research Interest: The gut microbiome role in methylmercury toxico-kinetics

Thomas Lamb

Research Interest: Investigating the effects of flavoring chemicals in e-cigarettes on macrophage function

Joseph Lucas

Research Interest: Studying the effects of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid on lung barrier integrity and the development of asthma

Connor McGuire

Research Interest: Studying the ways in which mixtures of thyroid hormone disrupting chemicals alter the development of the immune system in Xenopus laevis.

Alyssa Merrill

Research Interest: The effects of endocrine disrupting compounds on both fetal and maternal health following gestational exposure.

Sarah Morgan

Research Interest: Investigating the bioactivity of microplastics and their adsorbed chemicals in an in vitro mammalian model.

Mackenzie Palmer

Research Interest: Investigating cellular mechanisms that are involved in the development of radiation-induce pulmonary fibrosis.

Emily Quarato

Research Interest: Defining role of mesenchymal stem cell phagocytosis in radiation induced bone loss.

Ashley Rackow, M.S.

Research Interest: Investigating the dysregulation of metabolic pathways which contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiac and pulmonary fibrosis

Jasmine Reed, M.S.

Research Interest: Investigating the effects of maternal exposure to estrogenic chemicals, including BPA and TBBPA, on reproductive health and pregnancy outcomes.

Alexandra Strohm

Research Interest: The effects of Human Herpes Virus 6A's latency gene U94A on neurological diseases

Keegan Vaughan, M.S.

Research Interest: Role of AHR in modulating hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis and influencing lineage-biased hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells