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Dr. Baker’s student wins 3rd place for the Graduate Student Excellence Award

Emma VanderMeulen, a student of Dr. Tracie Baker won 3rd place at Society of Toxicology for Regulatory and Safety Evaluation Specialty Section (RSESS). Her project was on pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment. The study location was in southeast Michigan in the Lake Huron to Lake Erie corridor…

Dr. Lin’s Lab takes home many awards from SOT

Several members of Dr. Zhoumeng Lin’s lab won several awards at the Society of Toxicology Convention in Orlando, in March 2025. Lin, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., C.P.H., is an associate professor of environmental and global health. He also is an important member for the Center for Enviromental and Human Toxicology. Some…

Lou Guillette Jr. Memorial Symposium

On March 14th and 15th, a symposium was held at UF for former professor and scientist Lou Guillette Jr. He was a distinguished professor who encouraged many people to become who they are today. The Symposium was sponsored by HEEDS (Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies.) Physiological sciences sponsored lunch…

Thompson Earth Systems Institute- Scientist in Every Florida Classroom

Biologist Julia Bartel and PhD candidate Christian Maugee did a zoom presentation for Northeast High School in December 2024. This was parts of the Thompson Earth Systems Institute- Scientist in Every Florida Classroom. This program aims to educate kids K-12 on the different possibilities in careers in science they may…

Researchers identify genes that predict pediatric AML outcomes

UF Health researchers have used a promising approach by integrating CRISPR-cas9-based drug screening with patients’ clinical outcome to identify genes and pathways that predict how patients will respond to the standard firstline chemotherapy treatment regimen used to treat patients with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. Read Article…

Zhoumeng Lin | UF PHHP Researcher Spotlight Series

Zhoumeng Lin’s, associate professor in the department of environmental and global health, lab develops advanced computational tools to study the effects of chemicals, nanoparticles, and drugs on human and animal health, aiming to improve health safety and risk assessment. Using techniques like artificial intelligence, machine learning, physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK)…

PhD candidate, Awarded Student Marine Mammal Research Award

PhD candidate, Liz Brammer-Robbins, was awarded a $4,500 Student Marine Mammal Research Award through the UF College of Vet Med’s Aquatic Animal Health Program. This funding will support her PhD dissertation research which focuses on the health impacts of red tide brevetoxins in Florida manatees.  Florida red tide is a…

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  Assessment of Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) for Online Monitoring of Delivered Dose in an In Vitro Aerosol Exposure System, Journal of Aerosol science, IF 4.586). S. N. Shankar, K. Mital, E. Le, G. Lewis, A.E. Fernandez, T. Sabo-Attwood, and C.Y. Wu (2023). Wastewater-Based Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 under Dynamic…

PFAS Contamination in Great Lakes Urban Watershed

Recently Mallory Llewellyn a Graduate Assistant here, at the University of Florida collaborated with Jonh Bowden and Tracie Baker both working for the Center for Enviromental and Human Toxicology, and other scientist on her paper entitled “Identification and quantification of novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in a Great…