Associate Professor of Marine Biology

Ph: 409-740-4535, e-mail: halad@tamug.edu

PhD student

• Studying the developmental bioenergetics and physiology of larval southern flounder.

• Co-mentored with Dr. Lene Petersen.

e-mail: danielkemp@tamu.edu

PhD student

• Using zebrafish as a model to evaluate the susceptibility of reproductive transcriptional regulatory networks to select endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

e-mail: carle.dugan@tamu.edu

PhD student

• Using metabolomics and microrespirometry to assess the effects of single or mixtures PFAS on the metabolic physiology of larval/juvenile sheepshead minnows.

email: kylee.patterson@tamu.edu

PhD student

• Quantifying PFAS body-burdens in fish and marine mammals. And using metabolomics to assess correspondence between high PFAS body-burdens and physiological effects on metabolism.

email: joslynkent@tamu.edu

PhD student

• Using in silico (computational/mathematical) models of metabolism and gene regulation to study the adverse effects of pollutants on aquatic wildlife (fish, dolphins).

• Benji's project is in collaboration with a visiting Hagler Fellow to the Marine Biology Department, Dr. Robyn Tanguay.

email: blamp25@tamu.edu

PhD Student

• Studying PACs and PCBs pollution and exposure in aquatic biota (shallow waters and deep sea). 

• And optimizing the use of novel metabolite biomarkers of exposure that relate to AHR and SOX9 signaling modalities.

email: mlawson19@tamu.edu

• Studied microplastics and pollutants (PAHs/PCBs) in the surface waters and biota of Matagorda Bay.

• Assessed the toxicology of microplastics particles on early life-stage zebrafish.

• Currently a Research Scientist at the Environmental Institute of Houston, University of Houston Clear Lake. 

• Investigated the ability of the American alligator to metabolically detoxify common legacy and emerging pollutants (co-mentored with Dr. Lene Petersen).

• Studied PFAS pollution in Galveston Bay and assessed biomarkers of adverse effects in fish (co-mentored with Dr. Antonietta Quigg).

• Studied American alligator endocrinology under environmental stress (co-mentored with Dr. Lene Petersen).

Masters student

• Studied pollutant (PAHs/PCBs) body-burdens and fatty acid biomarkers in fish from Sabine Lake.

• Successfully defended his thesis and graduated May 2020.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

• Research focused on metabolic network modeling and aquatic toxicology of fish from various northwestern Gulf of Mexico ecosystems.

• Currently a Senior Scientist at Exponent.

Research Assistant

• Research focus was on quantifying PAH and PCB body-burdens in fish and marine mammals from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.