About
Dr. Heather Patisaul is now Scientific Director of the Division of Translational Toxicology and Deputy Director of the National Toxicology Program at NIEHS/NIH but remains an active NC State researcher as an adjunct Professor.
She received her B.S. in Zoology in 1995 from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2001. Her lab explores the mechanisms by which endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) alter neuroe
ndocrine pathways in the brain related to sex specific physiology and behavior.
Dr. Patisaul is specifically interested in how EDCs impact the development of neural pathways that coordinate socioemotional behaviors. The lab uses a variety of rodent models (rats, mice and prairie voles) and employs a suite of neuroanatomical, neurobehavioral, and molecular testing strategies such as RNAseq, qtPCR, in situ hybridization, 3D brain imaging, autoradiography and immunohistochemistry.
Work pioneered by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the lab also focus on endocrine disruption of the placenta and, more recently, bone development and integrity.