Associate Professor
The University of Arizona
I am Associate Professor in the School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences at The University of Arizona. I also serve as co-leader of the research focus group “Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stressors” within the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC, P30ES006694), a unit of the Center for Toxicology in the College of Pharmacy. Through my graduate and postdoctoral training, I developed a strong background in physiology, reproductive biology, and general and systems toxicology as well as reproductive toxicology. My career so far has spanned 15 years (11 years as an independent investigator) during which I have worked in the fields of reproductive physiology and toxicology and published 27 peer-reviewed articles, 3 invited reviews, 4 book chapters, and 54 abstracts. In my independent laboratory, I use the laboratory mouse as a model (in vivo and in vitro) to study the effects of environmental chemicals on ovarian function at the systemic, tissue, and cellular levels.