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Welcome to the Whitehead Lab at UC Davis. Whitehead is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Toxicology Department. A member of the Center for Population Biology. And a member of multiple graduate groups including the Population Biology Graduate Group. The Graduate Group in Ecology. The Integrative Genetics and Genomics Graduate Group. And the Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group. And the new Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute. The lab moved moved from LSU.

This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U. Department of Agriculture, under award numbers 2013-34383-20981 and 2014-34383-22029.

The mission of the La Merrill Lab is to understand susceptibility to environmental diseases. We consider susceptibilities to disease that may result from environmental insults during the exquisitely sensitive developmental period, from poor diet and ensuing metabolic diseases, and from genetic and epigenetic predispositions.

Our research group is focused on defining the biochemical mechanisms involved in the perception of and protection against oxidative stress and environmental toxicants. For this work we use the model eukaryotic organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In line with the broad scope of our laboratory, we use a variety of biochemical approaches to characterize the structure and function of proteins as well as cell and molecular biology, yeast genetics and genome-wide approaches. University of California, Davis.