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University of California Membership

UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology

UC Davis Genome Center

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center

UC Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

UC Davis Graduate Group in Integrative Genetics and Genomics

UC Davis Graduate Group in Epidemiology

UC Davis Graduate Group in Pharmacology and Toxicology

 

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Faculty of the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division

Dr. La Merrill showing local children how to paint with vegetables

to promote healthy eating.

Public Presentations

Using the key characteristics of endocrine disruptors to organize mechanistic support of the developmental basis of endocrine disruption sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program (May 28, 2020)

Consensus on the key characteristics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a basis for hazard identification sponsored by the sponsored by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment's EDC Strategies Partnership of Commonweal (December 10, 2019)

Do Chemicals Make it Harder to Burn Calories? at the UCSF 12th Annual Sugar, Stress, Environment & Weight Initiative Symposium (September 21, 2018)

Cold Feet: Perinatal DDT Exposure Increases Risk of Insulin Resistance sponsored by the sponsored by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment's EDC Strategies Partnership and TEDX (October 15, 2014)

 

Professional Societies

American Association for Cancer Research

American Heart Association

The Endocrine Society

Society of Toxicology

                     

In the News

'Forever chemicals' linked to liver damage (May 2022)

DDT's toxic legacy can harm granddaughters of women exposed, study shows, LA Times (April 2021)

LA's coast was once a DDT dumping ground, LA Times (October 2020)

Linking early-life exposure to endocrine disruptors with metabolic diseases, a Story of Success at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (September 2020)

Endocrine disruptor identification begins with biology, Environmental Factor (December 2019)

DDT may increase diabetes risk for Indian immigrants, COSMOS (November 21, 2019)

UCD professor joins state carcinogen committee, Davis Enterprise (November 20, 2018)

South Asian immigrants exposed to pesticides have increased risk of diabetes, Endocrine News (July 10, 2018)

Common household chemicals hurt our health...and cost us billions, CNN (October 18, 2016)

Society members receive prestigious NIEHS early career awards, Endocrine News (March, 2016)

WHO agency says insecticides lindane and DDT linked to cancer, Fox News (June 23, 2015)

Elevated breast cancer traced to pre-birth DDT exposure, Chicago Tribune (June 18, 2015)

DDT linked to fourfold increase in breast cancer risk, National Geographic (June 16, 2015)

Smoking during pregnancy may raise diabetes risk for daughters: study, US News and World Report (February 16, 2015)

Study says early DDT exposure may set up females for obesity, diabetes, LA Times (July 31, 2014)

DDT exposure in womb linked with adult high blood pressure, Huffington Post (March 12, 2013)

Metabolic syndrome and breast cancer models, Environmental Factor (April, 2009)