Michele La Merrill MPH, PhD

Michele La Merrill earned her BA in Biology at Reed College in Portland Oregon, where she completed her thesis on the campus carbon budget with Dr. David Dalton. She earned her PhD in Toxicology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill through the mentorship of Drs. David Threadgill and Linda Birnbaum on the interaction of prenatal dioxin exposure and high-fat diet on mammary cancer and metabolic syndrome risk.

Dr. La Merrill earned her MPH in epidemiology during her postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. There she conducted research on the influence of perinatal exposures and epigenetics on metabolic abnormalities in humans and rodents through mentorship by Drs. Philip Landrigan and David Savitz in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Dr. Christoph Buettner in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute.

She began research as an assistant professor in Environmental Toxicology at UC Davis in January 2013. She is a member of the Pharmacology & Toxicology Graduate Group, the Integrative Genetics and Genomics Graduate Group, the Epidemiology Graduate Group, the UC Davis Genome Center, and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is also an adjunct professor in the Division of Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.