Current Appointments & Affiliations
Postdoctoral Scholar
Nicholas School of the Environment
Postdoctoral Scholar
Biology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Structure-specific variation in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances toxicity among genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains.
Journal Article Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · February 2025 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are in 99% of humans and are associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. It is impossible to test the >14,500 structurally diverse "forever chemicals" for safety, therefore improved assays to quantify stru ... Full text CiteStructure-specific variation in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances toxicity among genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains.
Journal Article bioRxiv · June 2, 2024 BACKGROUND: There are >14,500 structurally diverse per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Despite knowledge that these "forever chemicals" are in 99% of humans, mechanisms of toxicity and adverse health effects are incompletely known. Furthermore, the ... Full text Link to item CiteResistance of mitochondrial DNA to cadmium and Aflatoxin B1 damage-induced germline mutation accumulation in C. elegans.
Journal Article Nucleic Acids Res · August 26, 2022 Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is prone to mutation in aging and over evolutionary time, yet the processes that regulate the accumulation of de novo mtDNA mutations and modulate mtDNA heteroplasmy are not fully elucidated. Mitochondria lack certain DNA repair p ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Natural variation in C. elegans responses to environmental pollution
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 2023 - 2026Exploring the role of mitochondrial homeostatic processes in the accumulation and transmission of environmentally-induced mtDNA mutations across generations
FellowshipPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2022View All Grants