Dr. Juleen Lam

Faculty members: Dr. Juleen Lam


Discipline:  Environmental Health


General description of expertise:
Johns Hopkins University, PhD in Environmental Health Policy and Masters in Biostatistics


George Washington University, MHS in Environmental Engineering


UC Davis, BS in Math and Environmental Toxicology


Dr. Lam conducts research that investigates environmental contaminants in food, air, or
water and how this may negatively impact human health. In particular, she focuses on
reproductive and developmental time periods (i.e., during pregnancy and early
childhood development), as these represent particularly sensitive time periods of
development that have the potential to have long-term impacts on one’s health. She
also advancing new methodology for chemical toxicity testing in in vitro cellular systems
for an application to risk assessment and regulatory standard-setting.


Related majors for this project: Health Sciences, Biology, Chemistry


Project:  Building and Testing an in vitro critical appraisal tool


Student-researcher expectations and responsibilities:
  • Work a minimum of 10-15 hours per week on your research project (hours will be compensated at an hourly rate), starting immediately (spring 2020 semester)
  • Must have some basic knowledge of biology and have taken a course in molecular & cellular biology
  • Prefer some experience of research methodology in molecular & cellular biology, toxicology, environmental health, and/or risk assessment
  • Prefer graduate-level (masters or PhD) student
  • Collaborative team-player able to coordinate with other student researchers on the same project
  • Able to work independently with periodic guidance and complete deliverables and tasks in a timely manner
  • Excellent and clear communication with faculty and student researchers
  • Research will involve screening scientific literature (i.e., published manuscripts) and identifying those relevant to a specific research question; screening studies in a freely available web-based software program (ActiveScreener); extracting relevant data from studies, and applying the tool to in vitro (i.e., cellular) data sets.


Contact information:
Dr. Lam: Juleen.Lam@csueastbay.edu

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