Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and the Environment
Dr. Justin Colacino is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and the Environment. His research focuses on understanding environmental and dietary factors in the development of chronic diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Specifically, the goal of his research is to characterize the susceptibility of normal stem cell populations to environmental stress, to understand the link between dysregulated development and disease. Of particular interest are understanding the changes that occur at the epigenetic and transcriptional level, changes which affect not only gene expression but also how progenitor cells differentiate and divide. His research group combines wet lab bench work and bioinformatic and statistical analysis of large scale genomic and epidemiologic data sets to translate findings from in vitro models to the population level. Dr. Colacino is an active member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
Research Areas: Cancer, Chemical Contamination, Data Science, Disease Prevention, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice,