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Current

Janice Chambers

     •  COBRE Director, Administrative Core; Mentoring

        Sub-Core

Jerald Ainsworth

     •  COBRE Co-Director, Research Resources Sub-Core

Allen Crow

     •  Pilot Project Leader, Dieldrin Treatment on

        Expression of Several Genes of Interest

Jeffrey Eells
     •  Project Leader, The Role of Nurr1 in the Regulation

        of Dopamine Neuron Damage Induced by Neurotoxins

        and Pilot Project Leader, The Effect of Chronic, Early
        Postnatal Oerganophosphate Treatment on Dopamine

        Neuron Survival, Function and Gene Expression
Nikolay Filipov

    •  Project Leader, Dopaminergic Toxicity of Atrazine:

        Influence of Age and

        Pilot Project Leader, Effects of Prior or Concurrent

        Dieldrin Exposure on Tissue Distribution and

        Pharmacokinetics of Atrazine in Mice:  A

        Preliminary Study 

Steven Gwaltney

     •  Project Leader, Mechanism of Organophosphate

        Insecticide Interaction with Acetylcholinesterase and

        Pilot Project Leader, Characterizing Organophosphates
        Computationally

John Harkness

     •  Animal Sub-Core

Matthew Ross

     •  Project Leader, Biotransformation and

        Pharmacokinetics of Pyrethroid Insecticides
        and Pilot Project Leader, Kinetic Analyses of

        Site-Specific Mutants of Carboxylesterases
Robert Wills

     •  Project Leader, Epidemiology and Exposure

        Assessment of Pesticides and

        Pilot Project Leader, Determining the Amounts of

        Pesticide Usage in Three Counties of the Mississippi

        Delta;

        Biostatistics Sub-Core

Former
Shane Burgess

     •  Pilot Project Leader, Single-cell Quantification of

        Rat Liver Cytochrome P450 2B1/2
Russell Carr
     •  Project Leader, Effects of Organophosphate
        Insecticide on Developmental Neurotrophin
        Production

Jane Harvill
     •  Pilot Project Leader, A Spatial Analysis for

        Exposure Assessment of Pesticides

Rajendran Mohanraj

     •  Pilot Project Leader, Molecular Modeling Studies

        for Development of Sensors for Organophosphates

Peter Ryan
     •  Pilot Project Leader, Real-Time Monitoring of

        Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Gene

        Expression in a Novel Transgenic Murine Model as

        a Screen for Pesticides with Xenoestrogenic Tendencies

Scott Willard

     •  Project Leader, Pesticide-Induced Differentiation

        of Breast Cancer Cells

COBRE Organizational Chart