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Urbana, Il, Us

Urbana, Il, Us

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Developed an independent project aimed at examining urinary biomarkers of airway inflammation and environmental exposures in children. • Assessed health effects of environmental exposures in children and women of reproductive age within different documents including Integrated Science Assessments (ISAs) and Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessments.• Coordinated and collaborated with multiple cross-institution program offices to monitor their inclusivity of children’s health.• Created bi-weekly tables for the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC) summarizing recent regulations, policies, webinars, and meetings pertaining to children’s environmental health.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Reproductive toxicologist with a focus on endocrine disrupting chemicals and their effects on female reproduction in the mouse.• Assisted with multiple cohorts of transgenerational mouse colonies prenatally treated with endocrine disrupting chemicals.• Planned, led, and performed thesis research with animal experiments in mice up to 16 months of age.• Assessed health effects of environmental chemical exposures in prenatally treated mice by using laboratory techniques including RNA isolation, cDNA synthesis, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), tissue processing, and evaluation of ovarian tissues in multiple generations of female mice. • Developed presentations and presented research at multiple international and regional scientific meetings, and each semester annually in departmental seminars.• Coordinated and collaborated with other laboratories for tissue collection, dosing of animals, project planning, and assisting with fellow researchers’ projects. • Published multiple peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and book chapters.• Mentored undergraduate students and provided edits to abstracts, an Honors Thesis, and scientific articles.• Coordinated with other graduate students to conduct the departmental reproductive physiology seminar series and collaborated with students from other Illinois universities to assist in the program for the Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Sciences.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Reproductive Toxicology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General