Joel Meyer
Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Director of Graduate Studies, ENV PhD program
Joel Meyer
Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology
Director of Graduate Studies, ENV PhD program
Dr. Meyer studies the effects of toxic agents and stressors on human and wildlife health. He is particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms by which environmental agents cause DNA damage, the molecular processes that organisms employ to protect prevent and repair DNA damage, and genetic differences that may lead to increased or decreased sensitivity to DNA damage. Mitochondrial DNA damage and repair, as well as mitochondrial function in general, are a particular focus. He studies these effects in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, in cell culture, and collaboratively in other laboratory model organisms as well as in human populations in the USA and globally.
Publications
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Berky AJ, Robie E, Chipa SN, Ortiz EJ, Palmer EJ, Rivera NA, et al. Risk of lead exposure from wild game consumption from cross-sectional studies in Madre de Dios, Peru. The Lancet Regional Health Americas. 2022 Aug 1;12.Maglioni S, Schiavi A, Melcher M, Brinkmann V, Luo Z, Laromaine A, et al. Neuroligin-mediated neurodevelopmental defects are induced by mitochondrial dysfunction and prevented by lutein in C. elegans. Nature Communications. 2022 May 12;13(1):2620.King DE, Sparling AC, Lloyd D, Satusky MJ, Martinez M, Grenier C, et al. Sex-specific DNA methylation and associations with in utero tobacco smoke exposure at nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes. Epigenetics. 2022 Mar 3;1–17.Joglekar R, Cauley M, Lipsich T, Corcoran DL, Patisaul HB, Levin ED, et al. Developmental nicotine exposure and masculinization of the rat preoptic area. Neurotoxicology. 2022 Mar;89:41–54.
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