Our Trainees

Lindsey St Mary

What is the goal of your research?

There are approximately 80,000 commercialized chemicals with only about 1% of the chemicals thoroughly tested for toxicity so my project aims to screen and categorize 6,000 distinct chemicals found in the environment, consumer products, or used in manufacturing processes in order to assess phenotypic and transcriptional changes relevant to human disease. Additionally, I am collaborating with AsedaSciences to integrate their high throughput in vitro screening system (SYSTEMETRIC®) and the Tanguay Lab's zebrafish screening assay (ZBEscreen ™) to predict chemical developmental/neurotoxicity.

What excites you about Superfund research?

I enjoy the diversity of research projects and the colaborative environment within the SRP at OSU.

As a scientist, what do you hope your research helps accomplish?

I only hope that any research I am part of leads to not only the research community's understanding of chemical toxicity, but also the public's.

What was an interest or experience you had that contributed to your decision to become a scientist?

I had originally planned to go to veterinary school, but I had spent my entire undergraduate degree in a toxicology lab where I realized my technical skills could be of use in a research setting. Toxicology became of particular interest due to the multidisciplinarity of the field where it has allowed me to work with biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers etc. from all over the world.

What are your career goals?

Research

What are your hobbies? What do you like to do when you aren’t doing science?

I powerlift, hike with my dogs, and love breaking out in unsolicitied song :)

Research Project(s):

Predicting Toxicity of PAH Mixtures