Kelsi Perttula, PhD, MS Faculty Profile
Kelsi Perttula, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health
- E-mail: kelsi.perttula@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3886
- Office: Robinson Hall #233
- Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays 1 pm - 2 pm; Wednesdays 10:30 am - 11:30 am; Please make am appointment on Bay Advisor with the link below:
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Professor Perttula began as a lecturer at CSUEB and has been with the CSUEB Health Sciences/Public Health Department since Spring 2020. She previously lectured in chemistry within CSUEB's Chemistry Department. She thoroughly enjoys teaching the diverse and vibrant student community at CSUEB. She has lived in the Bay Area all of her adult life. After college, she worked 10 years as a forensic scientist, mostly for San Mateo County, but then returned to graduate school to pursue a career in academia and public health. In her spare time, she plots ways to make her children eat more vegetables.
Professor Perttula's research has focused on environmental exposure assessment, toxicology, and molecular epidemiology. Her projects have centered on case-control samples from prospective cohorts extracted for lipophilic compounds and analyzed with high-resolution LCMS. She applies data-adaptive biostatistical methods to the resulting metabolomic data to discover environmental factors of disease. More recently, she has been studying the health effects of climate change. More specifically, she is interested in learning more about the barriers for local vulnerable communities to take protective adaptive measures.
- PhD: Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
- MS: Chemistry, San Jose State University
- BS: Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Not teaching this semester.
(Selected Publications)
Kado, M; Perttula, K; Noth, EM; Moore, D, Nguyen, P; Perrino, C; Nicas, M; Hammond, SK; "Elevator Ventilation and SARS-CoV-2-Relevant Particulate Matter Removal in Three Older California Elevators", Indoor Air, vol. 2023, Article ID 7664472, 10 pages, 2023.
Petrick, L; Imani, P; Perttula, K; Yano, Y; Whitehead, T; Metayer, C; Rappaport, S. Untargeted metabolomics of newborn dried blood spots reveals sex-specific associations with pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Leukemia Research, 106585, 2021.
Schiffman, C; Petrick, L; Perttula, Kelsi; Yano, Y; Carlsson, H; Whitehead, T; Metayer, C; Hayes, J; Edmands, WMB; Rappaport, S; Dudoit, S; Filtering procedures for untargeted LC-MS metabolomics data, BMC Bioinformatics, 20 (1), 2019.
Petrick, L; Schiffman, C; Edmands, WMB; Yano, Y; Perttula, K; Whitehead, T; Metayer, C; Wheelock, CE; Arora, M; Grigoryan, H; Carlsson, H; Dudoit, S; Rappaport, SM, Metabolomics of neonatal blood spots reveal distinct phenotypes of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and potential effects of early-life nutrition, Cancer Letters, 452, 2019.
Perttula, K; Schiffman, C; Edmands, WMB; Petrick, L; Grigoryan, H; Cai, X; Gunter, MJ; Naccarati, A; Polidoro, S; Dudoit, S; Rappaport, S; Untargeted lipidomic features associated with colorectal cancer in a prospective cohort, BMC cancer, 18 (1), 2018.
Petrick, L; Edmands, WMB; Schiffman, C; Grigoryan, H; Perttula, K; Yano, Y; Dudoit, S; Whitehead, T; Metayer, C; Rappaport, S; An untargeted metabolomics method for archived newborn dried blood spots in epidemiologic studies, Metabolomics, 13 (3), 27, 2017.
Perttula, K; Edmands, WMB; Grigoryan, H; Cai, X; Iavarone, AT; Gunter, MJ; Naccarati, A; Polidoro, S; Hubbard, A; Vineis, P; Evaluating ultra-long-chain fatty acids as biomarkers of colorectal cancer risk, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers, 25 (8) 2016.
CSUEB Department of Public Heath
- Curriculum Committee: 2022-Present
- Equity Committee: 2022-2024
CSUEB Academic Senate
- Committee on Sustainability