Graduate Assistant

Office: CEHT-Room 32
Phone: (352) 294-4703
Email: leycodysmith@gmail.com
Current Research Interests
- Investigating the molecular mechanisms by which endocrine disrupting chemicals adversely affect human and aquatic organismal health.
Education
- Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Toxicology, University of Florida. (August 2013 – Present)
- M.S., Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Florida. (August 2011 – May 2013)
- B.S., Integrative Biology, University of Florida. (August 2006 – May 2010)
Selected Publications
- Candice Lavelle, L. Cody Smith, Cecilia Silva-Sanchez, Nancy Denslow, and Tara Sabo-Attwood. Global analysis of phosphorylation patterns in the brain of male fathead minnows (P. promelas) exposed to two constituents of the birth control pill by a non-gel based phosphoproteomic approach. (In Preparation)
- L. Cody Smith, Jessica Clark, Joseph Bisesi, P. Lee Ferguson, and Tara Sabo-Attwood. Differential recruitment of co-regulatory proteins to the estrogen receptor in response to xenoestrogens. (In Preparation)
- L. Cody Smith, Kimberly Ralston-Hooper, P. Lee Ferguson and Tara Sabo-Attwood. The interplay of genomic and non-genomic estrogen receptor signaling pathways in mediating cellular responses to xenoestrogens. (In Preparation)