CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES AT UC DAVIS -- AFFILIATE SCIENTISTS

Laurel Beckett

Dr. Robert Berman - Send email to rfberman@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D.in Psychobiology, University of Utah
Current Position: Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Mechanisms of brain injury, development of treatments designed to facilitate repair and recovery, role of calcium in brain injury

Michael Boyd

Dr. Alan J. Conley - Send email to ajconley@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology, Iowa State University
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Population Health and Reproduction, Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Vertebrate sexual development and differentiation, molecular endocrinology, steroidogenesis

Dr. Gino A. Cortopassi - Send email to gacortopassi@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: Designing and developing ultrasensitive assays of human somatic mutation as biomarkers of environmental exposure

Carroll Cross, M.D. - send email to cecross@ucdavis.edu
Education: M.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Current Position: Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology, Director of the Pulmonary Research Training Program (UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center).
Research Interests: Inhalation toxicology; ozone; oxides of nitrogen; antioxidants; oxidant injury in biological systems; cystic fibrosis.

Dr. Michael S. Denison - Send email to msdenison@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology, Cornell University
Current Position: Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Research Interests: Molecular Toxicology, Receptors, Gene Expression, Dioxin, Toxicant Bioassays

Dr. Jason Eiserich - Send email to jpeiserich@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, University of California, Davis
Current Position: Associate Professor of Nephrology, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Vascular and Pulmonary Inflammation, Cellular Oxidant Signaling, Inhalation Toxicology

Dr. James Felton - Send email to felton1@llnl.gov
Education: Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the State University of New York
Current Position: Senior Biomedical Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Toxicology, Cancer & Carcinogenesis

Shirley Gee, M.S. - send email to sjgee@ucdavis.edu
Education: M.S. in Pharmacology/Toxicology from the University of California, Davis
Current Position: Staff Research Associate, Entomology
Research Interests: Pesticide biotechnology, immunochemistry

Dr. Cecilia Giulivi - Send email to cgiulivi@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires
Current Position: Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine: Molecular Biosciences
Research Interests: Nitric oxide in mitochondria. Oxygen and nitrogen free radical biochemistry and chemistry in in vitro and in vivo model systems. Mechanistic aspects of oxygen and nitrogen free radical damage. Proteomics of aging and oxidative damage of mitochondria. Human colon cancer

Dr. Frederic Gorin - Send email to fagorin@ucdavis.edu
Education: M.D., Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Current Position: Professor of Neurology, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Neuromuscular diseases, neurogenetics, gene therapy. molecular biology, neurotrophic regulation of gene expression in muscle and nreve, brain glycolytic metabolism

Dr. Robin Hansen - Send email to rlhansen@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Education: M.D., University of California, Davis
Current Position: Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Developmental behavior, developmental disorders, autism, learning disorders, and attention deficits, children’s temperaments and their effects on parenting, long-term effects of prenatal drug exposure, etiologic diagnosis of pervasive gene-environment interactions

Dr. Richart Harper - Send email to rwharper@ucdavis.edu
Education: M.D., Georgetown University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Signal transduction in airway epithelium, the function of thioredoxin in airway epithelium, signal pathways and gene regulation after exposure to cigarette smoke.

Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto - Send email to ihp@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D., M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
Current Position: Professor of Public Health Sciences, Universityof California, Davis, Medical Center; Deputy Director, NIEHS/EPA Center for Children's Environmental Health
Research Interests: Environmental exposures (metals, pesticides, PCBs, air pollution), pregnancy outcomes (spontaneous abortion, fetal growth, early child development), and epidemiologic methods (left truncation in survival analysis, the ‘healthy worker survivor bias,’ timing issues, and use of epidemiologic data in quantitative risk assessment).

Dr. Nicholas Kenyon - Send email to njkenyon@ucdavis.edu
Education: M.D., University of Vermont, Burlington
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Airway inflammation and fibrosis; lung physiology; environmental effects on lung function; the role of nitric oxide in airway diseases; asthma; COPD; lung injury.

Dr. Jerold A. Last - Send email to jalast@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Ohio State University
Current Position: Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Metabolic Fate and Pharmacokinetics, Respiratory Biochemistry, Lung Toxicology and Inhalation Toxicology

Danh Nguyen

James Overstreet

Dr. Isaac N. Pessah - Send email to inpessah@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemical Toxicology, Univ of Maryland, College Park
Current Position: Professor of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine; Director, NIEHS/EPA Center for Children's Environmental Health
Research Interests: Calcium Channels, Receptors, Neurotoxicology, Environmental Toxicology

Kenneth Reuhl

Raymond Rodriguez

Ronald Tjeerdema

Dr. Judith Van de Water - Send email to javandewater@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D., Immunology, University of California, Davis
Current Position: Associate Professor, Rheumatology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California, Davis, Medical Center
Research Interests: Primary biliary cirrhosis and the immunobiology of autism

Anthony Wexler

Gayle Windham

Dr. Matthew Wood - Send email to mjwood@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Research Interests: The biochemical mechanisms involved in the perception of and protection against oxidative stress and other toxic compounds using the model organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Dr. Reen Wu - Send email to rwu@ucdavis.edu
Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock
Current Position: Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Davis, Medical Center; and Chair, Comparative Pathology Graduate Group
Research Interest: Lung Toxicology

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