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Mariah Arnold (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2014
Consultant with Stantec Inc.
Audrey Bone (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2015
Postdoctoral Associate at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Andrew Arrant (Cynthia Kuhn) 2013 – Research focused on the serotonergic contribution to adolescent risk taking.
Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Autumn Bernal (Randy Jirtle) 2009
Senior Health Scientist at Cardno Chemrisk
Amanda Bess (Joel Meyer) 2012
Senior Health Scientist at Cardno Chemrisk
Daniel Brown (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow SPIRE Program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sonja Brun (Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD) 2014 – Studied the Role of Surviving in Medulloblastoma Tumorigenesis
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Elizabeth Chan (Michael S. Krangle, PhD) 2013
ORISE Postdoctoal Fellow at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bryan Clark (Richard Di Giulio) 2010
US EPA, Rhode Island
Drew Day (Jim Zhang) 2017
Post-doctoral research associate, Duke University, Jim Zhang Lab
Laura Dishaw (Heather Stapleton) 2015 – Focused on the evaluation of developmental toxicity and metabolism of the flame retardant, Tris (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) Phosphate (TDCPP).
Toxicologist at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Washington DC
Dana Dolinoy (Randy Jirtle) 2007
Associate Professor at University of Michigan School of Public Health
Kyle Erwin (Margaret Kirby) 2013
Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Mingliang Fang (Heather Stapleton) 2015 – Research involved the qualification and quantification of novel organic pollutants and metabolism of those compounds in vitro and in vivo.
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Claudia Gonzalez-Hunt (Joel Meyer) 2017
Post-doctoral research associate, Duke University, Dept. of Neurology, Laurie Sanders Lab.
Emileigh Greuber (Marie Pendergast) 2013
Regulatory Affairs Specialist for Synthon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Manager, Regulatory and Strategic Development at Clinipace Worldwide
Meng He (Van Bennett) 2015 – Researched mechanisms for Ankyrin-G targeting.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Genentech
Chelsea Landon (Mark Dewhirst) 2013 – Thesis focused on the use of hyperthermia and copper chelation to overcome cisplatin resistance; currently attending veterinary school at North Carolina State University, studying laboratory animal medicine, in hopes of staying closely tied to research.
Maxwell Leung (Joel Meyer) 2012 – Later-life Effects of Mitochondrial DNA Damage During Development in the Whole Organism Model Caenorhabditis elegans.
Associate Toxicologist, California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation & University of CA-Davis, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Laura Macaulay (Heather Stapleton) 2015
Post doctoral fellow at the US EPA in the National Center for Environmental Assessment, RTP
Priyaanka Nanduri (Tso-Pang Yao, PhD) 2014 – ITEHP / Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Alacrita Consulting
Pamela Noyes (Heather Stapleton) 2013 – Research dietary exposure to the flame retardant Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) in several fish species.
Toxicologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Ashley Parks (Lee Ferguson) Research focused on the fate, bioavailability and effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes in benthic estuarine systems.
National Research Council Postdoctoral research associate for US EPA, Atlantic Ecology Division, alongside Rob Burgess and Kay Ho.
Daniel Radiloff – 2009
Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of British Columbia
Simon Roberts (Heather Stapleton) 2014 – Studied in vitro metabolism of brominated flame retardants.
Postdoctoral fellow Colorado School of Mines studying high-resolution mass spectrometry of per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (2014-15)
Field Application Specialist for SCIEX, Denver, CO.
John Rooney (Joel Meyer) 2015 – Research investigated the effects of developmental mitochondrial DNA damage on mitochondrial function and metabolism later in life, using the C. elegans model system.
ORISE postdoctoral fellow at the US-EPA, working on bioinformatic approaches to identify gene expression biomarkers for transcription factor activation.
Contact: Rooney.John@epa.gov Links: ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-0867 Google Scholar: Google Scholar Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrooneyduke Aboutme: https://about.me/johnprooney
Alicia Timme-Laragy (Richard Di Giulio, PhD) 2007
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Katherine Stencel (Lee Ferguson, PhD) 2015 – Research focused on the identification of endocrine disrupting compounds in complex mixtures.
Wei Chou Tseng (Van Bennett) 2014 – Researched the significant role of the adaptor protein Ankyrin-G, which organizes and regulates ion channels and receptors in the nervous system.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Pfizer. Studies the structure-function mechanism of TRPA1 channel.
Contact: vivianee0526@gmail.com
Brooke Tvermoes (Friedman) 2007
Supervising Health Scientist, Cardo ChemRisk
Lindsey Van Tiem-Garner (Richard Di Giulio) 2011
Project Scientist at Cardno, Inc.
Dave Volz (Hinton) 2006
Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Kia Walcott 2012
Senior Medical Writer at Articulate Science
Lauren Willis (Richard Di Giulio) 2007
Assistant Professor at Charleston Southern University
Lauren Wyatt (Bill Pan) 2016
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Environmental Public Health Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, EPA
Jerry Yen (Linney) 2012
Analyst in Environmental Policy, Congressional Research Service
Shugun Yang (Christopher Counter) 2014
Principal Scientist, Wuxi Apptec (Shanghai)
Xinyu-Candy Yang (Joel Meyer) 2014
Regulatory toxicologist at Nalco Ecolab focusing on aquatic toxicology, environmental fate, sustainability and product stewardship
Contact: candy.xinyuyang@gmail.com
Edward Zhu (Rebecca Yang) 2015
Clinical Research Associate at Quintiles