Genoa Warner

Excited to share my group’s first nanoplastics toxicology paper, in which we compare impacts of polystyrene and PET nanoplastics on the ovary and find evidence of endocrine disruption doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.

Headshots of 102 women and non-binary scientists who are now assistant professors. At the bottom is the Leading Edge logo and www.leadingedgesymposium.org

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊

Learn more about them:
www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3).

You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

Third research paper from my lab accepted today, just in time to meet our 2024 publishing goal. Will share once it is online ☺️

As Fertility Rates Fall, Some Scientists Say Everyday Chemicals Are a Factor Concerns are growing about so-called endocrine disrupters, found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics.

www.wsj.com/health/ferti...

Manufactured Doubt – SourceMaterial The plastics industry is taking lessons from Big Oil to undermine science

I teach about manufactured doubt in my intro toxicology class, largely focusing on historical examples, but here it is happening now around plastics.

www.source-material.org/plastics-sci...

This is awesome. Do you at any point test for and remove outliers?

Identification of profiles and determinants of maternal pregnancy urinary biomarkers of phthalates and replacements in the Illinois Kids Development Study - PubMed Conception season, enrollment year, and several sociodemographic/lifestyle factors were predictive of phthalate/replacement biomarker profiles. Future studies should corroborate these findings, with a...

Biomonitoring studies like this one show that we now have more DEHTP metabolites in our blood than any single phthalate, so the endocrine disruption potential of DEHTP really needs more study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35247685/

It has a very similar structure to DEHP, so we were not too hopeful that it would be safer. DEHTP did not get a clean pass and is likely an ovarian toxicant. Beware of flexible PVC plastics labeled phthalate-free because they likely contain this potentially regrettable replacement.

New paper alert! We're interested in replacement chemicals for phthalate plasticizers. In this work, we studied the ovarian toxicity of a phthalate replacement known as DEHTP. authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7aa3AWI4...

steroid hormone, bubbling flask, biohazard symbol, and DNA together

Hello bluesky! Check out the lab's amazing new logo, which was designed by our undergrad alum Alixs