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The Kassotis Lab

is open at Wayne State University! We joined the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (lab home in the Integrative Biosciences Center - IBio), with a co-appointment in the Department of Pharmacology. 

Our lab will be focused on understanding endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and mixtures, and their potential impacts on human/animal health - with a particular focus on metabolic health (e.g. obesity, etc.). 

My research uses a mixture of cell culture mechanism assays, coupled with zebrafish and mouse models, to characterize molecular mechanisms underpinning potential impacts of EDCs on human and animal health.

Research
Lab News and Updates
May 2023
Praneeth Goli has joined the lab as an MS student and will be completing his thesis research over the course of the academic year!

March 2023
Aicha Khalaf (winner of an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award) presented a poster at the WSU UROP Conference for Undergraduate Research.  

Five members from the Kassotis Lab attended the Society of Toxicology 2023 annual meeting in Nashville, TN! We presented four poster presentations on diverse lab projects and caught up on lots of great science all around. 

New lab paper published in Science of the Total Environment: Adipogenic and Endocrine Disrupting Mixture Effects of Organic and Inorganic Pollutant Mixtures.

New lab paper published in Metabolites: Cetyl Alcohol Polyethoxylates Disrupt Metabolic Health in Developmentally Exposed Zebrafish.


February 2023
Samantha Heldman received a SNAP award from the Department of Pharmacology for $10,000 to fund RNAseq experiments on LCM mixture-exposed zebrafish. 

Roxanne Bérubé was awarded a competitive National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship to fund the next two years of her postdoctoral training. 
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Please feel free to contact me with questions and comments!


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christopher.kassotis@wayne.edu
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