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Renee Sadowski is a predoctoral fellow training in Dr. Janice Juraska's Laboratory. Her research is focused on whether perinatal exposure to bisphenol A, and endocrine disruptor, leads to alterations in adult cognitive behavior and anatomy of the brain in rodents.
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Clara Jeong is a predoctoral fellow training with Dr. Michael Plewa in the Department of Crop Sciences. Her graduate research focus is on the assessment of genotoxicity of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water generated from different disinfection processes in mammalian cells. |
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Alicia Dietrich is a predoctoral fellow in Dr. Ann Nardulli’s lab in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Her research focuses on identifying mechanisms by which estrogen mediates its neuroprotective effects in the brain and defining how environmental toxicants attenuate this protective effect. |
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Justin Pals is a predoctoral fellow in Dr. Michael Plewa's lab in the Department of Crop Sciences.
His research focuses on toxic disinfection byproducts, called DBPs, in drinking water. These DBPs are a result of the disinfection process and have been linked to colon and bladder cancer, as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes. There are over 600 DBPs. The Plewa laboratory has engaged in a systematic evaluation of the toxicity of over 80 DBPs. Justin's research focus is on three haloacetic acid DBPs (iodoacetic acid, bromoacetic acid, and chloroacetic acid) and the mechanism(s) of their toxicity. |
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Teresa Martin, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. John Katzenellenbogen's laboratory in the Department of Chemistry. Her research is focused on determining the effect of botanical estrogens on the molecular conformations of the two estrogen receptor subtypes, ERα and ERß, and then to query the type of co-activators that become recruited by these complexes. |
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Wei Wang, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Jodi Flaws in the Department of Comparative Biosciences. Her current research focuses on exploring the developmental and adult effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals such as bisphenol A and phthalates that are widely used in plastics, and the mechanisms by which such chemicals impair ovarian development/function and further affect fertility in adult life. |
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Mary Laws, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Indrani Bagchi's Department of Comparative Biosciences lab. Her current research involves evaluating consequences of Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in an estrogen-dependent murine model of ovarian cancer. Subsequent work will pinpoint molecular mechanisms of BPA action in promoting ovarian tumorigenesis. |
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Rita Strakovsky, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. William Helferich in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. Her current research is focused on the consequences of maternal nutrition as well as developmental exposures to several endocrine disruptors on metabolic syndrome-related outcomes in offspring, with a special consideration for gender-specific changes in gene expression and methylation. |
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