Deborah Bennett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine; CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Fate, transport, and exposure to chemicals in a multimedia environment within the context of environmental exposure and risk assessment. Volatile organic compounds and pesticides are emphasized.
Jiangang Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Project Scientist, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
The study of environmental hazards to women’s health, including female reproductive toxicology and physiology.
Dong-Fang Deng, Ph.D., Assistant Project Scientist, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Fish nutrition and toxicology; Study of different feeding strategies, dietary nutrients and environmental factors on fish growth and their tolerance to contaminant stressors using different biomarkers (growth, physiological, biochemical and molecular responses).
Teresa Fan, Ph.D., Associate Research Biochemist, Department
of Land, Air and Water Resources, College of Agricultural & Environmental
Sciences; CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Stress metabolism and contaminant biotransformation by plants
and aquatic invertebrates in response to salinity, anaerobiosis,
and anthropogenic pollution; roles of plant metabolism in biogeochemical
cycling, in situ bioremediation, and ecotoxicology.
Ellen Gold,
Ph.D., Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, CHE, John Muir Institute
of the Environment
Lifestyle and Ovarian Function in Midlife Women , Neurotoxicity
of Organophosphates in Children of Migrant Farmworkers, Smoking
Effects on Maternal Folate and Reproductive Outcomes, Smoking
and Adverse Reproductive Health in Women, Epidemiology of Brain
Tumors in Children
Andrew Hendrickx, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Human
Anatomy, School of Medicine, Research Professor, CHE, John Muir
Institute of the Environment
Reproduction and pregnancy as well as the effects of drugs and environmental chemicals on these events in the nonhuman primate. Formation and migration of multipotential neural crest cell which make a major contribution to craniofacial development. Developmental toxicity of retinoids, including the pathogenesis of craniofacial defects induced by these agents as well as safety evaluation of new retinoid compounds being developed for therapeutic purposes.
Michael L. Johnson, Ph.D. Associate Research Ecologist, CHE, Center for Watershed Sciences, John Muir Institute of the Environment, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine
Effect of physical and chemical stressors on fish development, biological and chemical water quality including monitoring and data analysis, risk analysis, aquatic toxicology.
Bill
Lasley, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Population
Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine; Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine; and Associate
Director, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Ovarian function, early pregnancy and comparative reproductive
endocrinology, wildlife reproduction, comparative reproductive
endocrinology, toxicology, epidemiology, reproduction of non-domestic
species, endocrine aspect of female fertility and early pregnancy
Fumio
Matsumura, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental
Toxicology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Biochemical mechanisms of action of halogenated organic chemicals
and their toxic expression in various biological systems
Marion Miller, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Environmental Toxicology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Analysis of pesticide residues in the environment. IR-4 program works with farmers, agriculture scientists and extension personnel to carry out research and petition the EPA in order to obtain tolerances for specific pesticide uses needed by minor crop producers.
James
Overstreet, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, School of Medicine;
Research Professor, CHE, John Muir
Institute of the Environment
Sperm biology and sperm transport in the female reproductive tract,
acceptable contraceptive measures for men, reproductive health
of wildlife
Kent
Pinkerton, Ph.D., Professor (In-Residence), Department
of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary
Medicine, and Director, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Effects of environmental gases and particulates on lung structure
and function. Cell-to-cell interactions in acute and chronic lung
injury. Mechanisms of synergism between combined environmental
pollutants. The effects of exogenous surfactant treatment and
environmental tobacco smoke on lung growth and development.
Otto Raabe, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of
Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine; Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering;
Research Professor,
CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Radiation Biology and Biophysics, Internal Radiation Dosimetry,
Radiation Carcinogenesis, Heritable Effects of Ionizing Radiation,
Dose-response Relationships, Risk Assessment, Health Physics,
Environmental Health, Environmental Radioactivity, Airborne Radioactivity
and Radioactive Particles, Inhalation Toxicology, Inhalation Exposure
Equipment and Methods, Chemical Toxicology and Carcinogenesis,
Aerosol Science, Aerosols in Medicine, Airborne Particle Sampling
and Characterization.
Marc Schenker,
M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine; and Director, Northern
California Occupational Health Centers, Director, Western Agricultural Health & Safety Center; CHE, John Muir
Institute of the Environment
Environmental and occupational risk factors for respiratory disease
and lung cancer, biological monitoring of occupational exposures,
health hazards of agricultural exposures especially respiratory
and pesticide risks, occupational reproductive hazards, health
hazards in the semiconductor industry, international issues in
occupational and environmental health.
Swee Teh, Ph.D., Assistant Research Toxicologist/Pathologist,
Aquatic Toxicology Program, Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology,
School of Veterinary Medicine; CHE, John Muir Institute of the
Environment
Conduct independent research in the fields of developmental biology, nutrition, toxicology and pathology, with special emphasis on adverse health effects (growth, reproduction and embryonic development) of environmental endocrine disruptors and contaminants in invertebrate, fish and shellfish populations.
Laura Van Winkle, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Associate Research Cell Biologist, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Pulmonary cell biology and toxicology. Epithelial injury and repair. Regulation of proliferation. Airway remodeling in response to air pollutant and during postnatal lung development.
Christoph Vogel, Ph.D., Assistant Researcher, Department of Environmental Toxicology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Molecular mechanisms of action of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and airborne particles; molecular mechanisms of gene expression related to pathogenesis; and structure and function of receptors for xenobiotics and hormones.
Barry
Wilson, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Animal Science
and Environmental Toxicology, College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, CHE, John Muir Institute of the Environment
Modes of actions of environmental neurotoxicants, especially
agricultural chemicals, emphasizing cellular and development events,
biomarkers of exposure and effect of organophosphates and other
esterase inhibitors and their effects on humans, experimental
animals and wildlife
Hanspeter
Witschi, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular
Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine; Department of Internal
Medicine, School of Medicine, CHE, John Muir Institute of the
Environment
Cell turnover in the lungs of animals exposed to common air
pollutants such as ozone or nitrogen dioxide
