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Tracie R Baker

Tracie R Baker,

Associate Professor

Department: Department of Environmental and Global Health
Business Phone: (352) 273-9560
Business Email: tracie.baker@phhp.ufl.edu
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About Tracie R Baker

Tracie R. Baker (DVM, PhD) has substantial academic training and research in developmental biology, environmental toxicology, genetics, and animal health. Her academic training has been multidisciplinary in nature with an interest in toxicology beginning as an undergraduate where she investigated water pollution effects and behavioral ecology. She earned her Master of Science at the University of Alaska – Fairbanks in marine biology. After earning her DVM (University of Wisconsin – Madison) and a certificate in fish health medicine from the State of Wisconsin, she was an assistant researcher investigating clinical improvements in fish medicine before accepting an NIEHS-funded postdoctoral position that evolved into a PhD program at UW – Madison where her research was the first to show transgenerational inheritance of disease using a zebrafish model. In 2013, she competed successfully for an NIH K01 award through the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). Dr. Baker found that low level, dioxin-induced decreased fertility across multiple generations following early developmental exposure is mediated through the male germline. In 2016, She started her laboratory at Wayne State University (WSU) as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology – School of Medicine, where she still conducts contaminant research in water and fish in the Great Lake region. In 2021, Dr. Baker joined the faculty at the University of Florida and continues to focus on One Health research evaluating developmentally-based and transgenerational, environmentally-induced disease of endocrine disrupting chemicals and contaminants of emerging concern. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her wife, kids, and their dogs, participating in open water swim events and triathlons, traveling, and being outside.

Related Links:
Baker WATER lab website

Accomplishments

  1. Global Fellow

    University of Florida

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

Research Profile

The WATER (Warrior Aquatic, Translational, and Environmental Research) Lab is focused on multidisciplinary, translational research that seeks to bridge and improve human, animal, and environmental health. Our research goal is to provide critical insights into developmentally-based and transgenerational, environmentally-induced disease with primary emphasis on endocrine disrupting compounds, aquatic toxicants, and contaminants of emerging concern, while also developing novel methods and approaches in zebrafish husbandry, genomics, and behavior, as well as promoting standardization of the zebrafish model and continued improvements in care, welfare, and conservation of aquatic species and environments.

Areas of Interest

  • Aquatic Animal Medicine
  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Environmental Toxicology
  • Molecular Biology

Publications

Academic Articles

Presentations

Grants

  1. AB SCIEX QTRAP 7500 LC MS/MS

    Active

    Role:
    Other
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH OD

  2. Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness & Research (CLEAR)

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  3. Healthy Urban Waters: Holistic Analysis of CECs (Contaminants of Emerging Concern) in the Huron to Erie Corridor

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via FRED A AND BARBARA M ERB FAMILY FOU

  4. Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness & Research (CLEAR)

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  5. Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness & Research (CLEAR)

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  6. Transcriptomic and epigenetic mechanisms of lead (Pb)-induced neurobehavioral disease in aged populations and subsequent generations

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  7. Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness & Research (CLEAR)

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  8. Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of infertility caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIEHS

  9. Healthy Urban Waters: Contaminants of Emerging Concern

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via FRED A AND BARBARA M ERB FAMILY FOU

  10. PFAS Health and Ecological Impacts

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    WAYNE STATE UNIV via GREAT LAKES WATER AUTHORITY

Education

  1. PhD in Molecular and Environmental Toxicology

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2. DVM

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  3. MS Marine Biology

    University of Alaska-Fairbanks

  4. BS Biology and Chemistry

    Cleveland State Universiity

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-9560
Emails:
Business:
tracie.baker@phhp.ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100188
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610
Business Street:
2033 MOWRY RD
 GAINESVILLE FL 32610