Research in my group focuses on chemical toxicology of environmental contaminants including both naturally occurring microbial biotoxins, and human-made pollutants, in relation to potential human and ecosystem health impacts.
Research Areas
Identification, isolation and characterization of these bioactive compounds from marine and freshwater algae including "harmful algal blooms" (HABs), as they relate to both environmental health and biomedicine.
Metabolomics as a means of understanding toxicity, and adverse health effects, and identifying potential biomarkers of exposure and effect of environmental toxicants including microbial biotoxins (i.e., algal toxins, mycotoxins) and anthropogenic pollutants including persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), e.g., perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Assessment of toxicity, and toxicometabolomics, of environmental contaminants across phylogenetically diverse ecological receptors toward understanding "evolutionary toxicology" in relation to aquatic ecosystem health.
Education
- BSc, University of Michigan
- PhD, Cornell University
- NIH/NCI Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University
- NIH/NIEHS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Miami