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Environmental Toxicology
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It is becoming increasingly clear that organisms are exposed to huge amounts of chemicals that can mimic, disrupt or affect biological systems. Many of these insults of the industrialized world, affect basic developmental processes in a wide range of species. Environmental insults can be categorized as those that cause mutations in our DNA (leading to cancer, birth defects and other problems) and those that affect basic developmental processes by mimicking or disrupting natural hormones and other signaling molecules (leading to developmental and homeostatic abnormalities ranging from reduced fertility to psychiatric and nervous system disorders to wholesale extinction of affected populations). Several of our faculty are conducting pioneering research on the leading edge of this field. |
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