Education
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hollings Marine Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2011 – 2015
Ph.D. Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2011
Research Interests
We use a combination of wildlife (e.g., alligators, amphibians) and lab models (e.g., small fish) to study environmental health through an ecological lens. We are interested in discovering how organisms interact with their environments during development and the aging process to influence phenotypic diversity, particularly in the context of health and disease.
Selected Publications
McCoy JA, Bangma JT, Reiner JL, Bowden JA, Schnorr J, Slowey M, O’Leary T, Guillette LJ, Parrott BB. Associations between perfluorinated alkyl acids in blood and ovarian follicular fluid and ovarian function in women undergoing assisted reproductive treatment. 2017 Science of the Total Environment (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.06.137)
McCoy JA, Hamlin HJ, Thayer L, Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB. The influence of thermal signals during embryonic development on intrasexual and sexually dimorphic gene expression and circulating steroid hormones in American alligator hatchlings (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.04.011)
Guillette LJ Jr, Parrott BB, Nilsson E, Haque MM, Skinner MK. Epigenetic alterations in alligators from environmentally contaminated lakes. 2016. [In Press at General and Comparative Endocrinology, draft available upon request]
Doheny BM, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Guillette LJ Jr. In ovo treatment with an estrogen receptor alpha selective agonist causes precocious development of the female reproductive tract of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). 2016. General and Comparative Endocrinology (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.02.026).
Yatsu R, Miyagawa S, Kohno S, Parrott BB, Yamaguchi K, Miyakawa H, Shigenobu S, Guillette LJ, Iguchi T. RNA-seq analysis of the gonadal transcriptome during Alligator mississippiensis temperature-dependent sex determination and differentiation. 2016. BMC Genomics 17:77 (DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2396-9)
