Ph.D. Student Profile

Lauren Middleton , MPH

Lauren Middleton , MPH

  • Doctoral Pre-Candidate
  • Cognate: Environmental Health Sciences

    Education

    • MPH in Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology, University of Michigan (2020)
    • BA in Biology, Vassar College (2018)

    Research Interests & Projects

    • Environmental chemicals
    • NHANES
    • Immune system

    Selected Publications

    • Middleton LYM, Nguyen VK*, Dou J, Park SK, Patel C, Colacino JA, Bakulski KM. 2024. Environmental chemical-wide associations with immune biomarkers in the US: A cross-sectional analysis. Environmental Research. PMID: 38640990.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118956.
    • Nguyen VK, Middleton LYM*, Huang L, Zhao N, Verly E Jr, Kvasnicka J, Sagers L, Patel CJ, Colacino J, Jolliet O. 2022. Harmonized US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988-2018 to enable reproducible exposome-cancer associations. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.06.23284573 (Manuscript in submission)
    • Dou JF, Middleton LYM, Zhu Y, Feinberg JI, Croen LA, Hertz-Picciotto I, Newschaffer CJ, LaSalle JM, Fallin MD, Schmidt RJ, Bakulski KM. 2022. Prenatal vitamins in first month of pregnancy and DNA methylation in cord blood and placenta. Epigenetics & Chromatin, 15(28). PMID: 35918756; PMCID: PMC9344645. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13072-022-00460-9.
    • Middleton LYM, Dou J, Fisher J, Heiss JA, Nguyen VK, Just AC, Faul J, Ware EB,Mitchell C, Colacino JA, Bakulski KM. 2021. Saliva cell type DNA methylation reference panel for epidemiological studies in children. Epigenetics. 17(2): 161-177. PMID: 33588693. PMCID: PMC8865319. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2021.1890874.
    • Bakulski KM, Dou JF, Thompson RC, Lee C, Middleton LY, Perera BP, Ferris SP, Jones TR, Neier K, Zhou X, Sartor MA, Hammoud SS, Dolinoy DC, Colacino JA. 2020. Single cell analysis of the effects of developmental lead (Pb) exposure on the hippocampus.Toxicological Sciences, 176(2): 396-409. PMID: 32458983. PMCID: PMC7416319. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfaa069.
    • Belli S, Rossi M, Molasky N, Middleton L, Caldwell C, Bartow-McKenney C, Duong M,Chiu J, Gibbs E, Caldwell A, Gahn C, Caruso F. 2019. Effective and Novel Application of Hydrodynamic Voltammetry to the Study of Superoxide Radical Scavenging by Natural Phenolic Antioxidants. Antioxidants, 8(14): 1-20. PMID: 30621138. PMCID: PMC6356364. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox8010014.
    • Rocco S, Koneva L, Middleton LYM, Thong T, Solanki S, Karram S, Nambunmee K, Harris C, Rozek L, Sartor M, Shah Y, Colacino J. 2018. Cadmium exposure inhibits branching morphogenesis and causes alterations consistent with HIF-1α inhibition in human primary breast organoids. Toxicological Sciences, 164(2): 592-602. PMID:29741670. PMCID: PMC6061678. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfy112.