M. Elizabeth Marder

Photo of Dr. Marder standing in the Meyer Hall breezeway

Assistant Adjunct Professor

na Meyer Hall

Research:

My work is focused on environmental and public health responses to chemical exposures. This includes risk assessment and risk communication. I also have experience in biomonitoring of environmental chemicals and conducting epidemiologic investigations of human health effects related to chemical exposures.

As a staff toxicologist with the California Department of Public Health's Environmental Health Investigations Branch (part of the Center for Healthy Communities), I lead equity-based environmental health investigations involving exposures to toxicants (including aggregate and cumulative exposures) and support other activities within the branch including the new Toxicological Outbreak Program. Previously, I worked as a senior environmental scientist with OEHHA. In that role, I conducted chemical- and scenario- specific exposure assessments, provided technical support for risk assessments and related projects, and prepared and reviewed technical reports and materials to communicate complex exposure information on chemicals of interest to a range of audiences. 

Education:

  • Emory University – MS and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences (2011-2015)
  • University of California, Davis – BS in Environmental Toxicology (2007-2011)

Teaching:

  • ETX 135: Health Risk Assessment of Toxicants
  • ETX 138: Legal Aspects of Environmental Toxicology
  • ETX 199/ETX 194H: Special Study for Advanced Undergraduates / Honors Research

Professional Activities:

  • Professional Society Memberships:
    • American Chemical Society
    • American Public Health Association
    • Genetic and Environmental Toxicology Association of Northern California
    • International Society of Exposure Science
      • active member of ISES membership committee and annual conference technical organizing committee (past Board of Directors Councilor, past Chair of Communications & Outreach Committee, past Chair of Student & New Researcher Committee)
    • National Environmental Health Association
    • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
    • Society of Risk Analysis
    • Society of Toxicology
  • Journal Activities:
    • Reviewer- Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Research, Frontiers in Public Health, Journal of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
    • Editor – Frontiers in Public Health (Editor - 2023 Special Topic Issue on Occupational Exposures), Journal of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (Associate Editor)

Recent Publications:

Select Governmental Reports
Evidence on the Carcinogenicity of Bisphenol A. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (September 2022). Vanessa Chang, Sarah Elmore, Neela Guha, Jennifer C.Y. Hsieh, Kate Li, M. Elizabeth Marder, Meltem Musa, Karin Ricker, Gwendolyn Osborne, Rose Schmitz, Feng C. Tsai. (link)

Evidence on the Carcinogenicity of Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) and Its Salts and Transformation and
Degradation Precursors. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (September 2021). Sarah Elmore, Neela Guha, Jennifer C.Y. Hsieh, Kate Li, M. Elizabeth Marder, Meltem Musa, Karin Ricker, Gwendolyn Osborne, Rose Schmitz, Feng C. Tsai. (link)

Select Peer-Reviewed Literature
Hood, Robert B., Metrecia L. Terrell, Alicia K. Smith, Sarah Curtis, Karen Conneely, Melanie Pearson, Hillary Barton, Dana Boyd Barr, M. Elizabeth Marder, and Michele Marcus. Elimination of PBB-153; findings from a cohort of Michigan adults. Environmental Research, 2023, 220: 115146. (link)

Li, Kate, Karin Ricker, Feng C. Tsai, ChingYi J. Hsieh, Gwendolyn Osborne, Meng Sun, M. Elizabeth Marder, Sarah Elmore, Rose Schmitz, and Martha S. Sandy. Estimated cancer risks associated with nitrosamine contamination in commonly used medications. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021, 18(18):9465. (link)

Curtis, Sarah W., Dawayland O. Cobb, Varun Kilaru, Metrecia L. Terrell, M. Elizabeth Marder, Dana Boyd Barr, Carmen J. Marsit, Michele Marcus, Karen N. Conneely, and Alicia K. Smith. Genome-wide DNA methylation differences and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure in a US population. Epigenetics, 2021, 16(3):338-352. (link)

Greeson, Katherine W., Kristen L. Fowler, Paige M. Estave, S. Kate Thompson, Chelsea Wagner, R. Clayton Edenfield, Krista M. Symosko, Alyse N. Steves, M. Elizabeth Marder, Metrecia L. Terrell ML, Hilary Barton, Michael Koval, Michele Marcus, and Charles A. Easley. Detrimental effects of flame retardant, PBB153, exposure on sperm and future generations. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10: 8567. (link)

Walker, Douglas I., M. Elizabeth Marder, Yukiko Yano, Metrecia L. Terrell, Yongliang Liang, Dana Boyd Barr,
Gary W. Miller, Dean P. Jones, Michele Marcus, and Kurt D. Pennell. Multigenerational metabolic profiling in the Michigan PBB Registry. Environmental Research, 2019, 172, 182–193. (link)

Darrow, Lyndsey A., Melanie H. Jacobson, Emma V. Preston, Grace E. Lee, Parinya Panuwet, Ronald E. Hunter Jr, M. Elizabeth Marder, Michele Marcus, and Dana B. Barr. Predictors of serum polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) concentrations among children aged 1–5 years. Environmental science & technology 51, no. 1 (2017): 645-654. (link)

Marder, M. Elizabeth, Parinya Panuwet, Ronald E. Hunter, P. Barry Ryan, Michele Marcus, and Dana Boyd Barr. Quantification of polybrominated and polychlorinated biphenyls in human matrices by isotope-dilution gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of analytical toxicology 40, no. 7 (2016): 511-518. (link)

Panuwet, Parinya, Ronald E. Hunter Jr, Priya E. D'Souza, Xianyu Chen, Samantha A. Radford, Jordan R. Cohen, M. Elizabeth Marder, Kostya Kartavenka, P. Barry Ryan, and Dana Boyd Barr. Biological matrix effects in quantitative tandem mass spectrometry-based analytical methods: advancing biomonitoring. Critical reviews in analytical chemistry 46, no. 2 (2016): 93-105. (link)