Chloe Wray

Postion: PhD student
Molecular Toxicology Group

Address:
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Building: 6.1
Room: 802
Phone: +49 341 6025 2866

Chloe Wray

Research Interests

My research interest revolves around how microbial products and environmental chemicals can provoke or disrupt neurodevelopment in our model organism, zebrafish. While we know that the microbiome is necessary for the development of a functional nervous system and that exposure to environmental chemicals can disrupt microbiome composition, the functional relevance of these interactions to the host is unclear. Through my research, I will work to fill the existing knowledge gap via discovery-based identification of microbiome products that influence host neurodevelopment in early-life-stage zebrafish.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 07/2023

PhD student at Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

09/2019 - 05/2023

B.A. in Health and Human Biology, Honors, Brown University
B.A. Africana Studies, Brown University

Honors Thesis: Determining the potential of PFAS to lower the threshold for chemically induced seizures

04/2021 - 08/2021

Student Research Assistant within the Bioelectrics Team of the Barresi Zebrafish Lab, Smith College, USA

Awards/Grants/other Activities

2023

George W. Hagy Prize in Human Biology, Brown University

2022

Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, Brown University

2021

Summer Projects for Research, Internships and Teaching Award, Brown University

2020

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Award Recipient

2016 - 2017

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange

Department News

Staff News

ETOX PhD Student Nadia K. Herold and Postdoc David Leuthold honored at the 2024 Society of Toxicology Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Nadia’s research (use of multi-behavioral fingerprints to identify neuroactive environmental chemicals) was honored with four awards including the Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section Graduate Student Research Award and the renowned Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award and also recognized by the Toshio Narahashi Trainee Conference Endowment Award.
David's research (identifying and elucidating the mechanisms of chemicals that disrupt non-associative learning using a novel multi-behavioral assay battery in larval zebrafish) earned three awards including the Molecular and Systems Biology Specialty Section Postdoctoral Scholar Research Award, the Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Toshio Narahashi Postdoctoral Scholar Poster Competition Award and the Mechanisms Specialty Section Sheldon D. Murphy Postdoctoral Endowment Award.

ETOX PhD Student Nadia Herold, Postdoc David Leuthold and mentor Prof. Dr. Tamara Tal at the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Meeting in Salt Lake City, USA.

Projekte

The goal of PrecisionTox is to improve chemical safety assessment to better protect human health and the environment by using non-traditional test species, multiple fields of knowledge, and powerful computational approaches to understand which chemicals are toxic and why.

https://precisiontox.org/

With MANTRA - data on innovative materials for sustainability and transfer - the BMBF is funding a scientific communication project for 3.5 years from January 2024 for networking, public relations and the development of indicators for sustainability as well as industry/practice transfer. These topics will be communicated via a website, brochures and information flyers using an interdisciplinary approach. In addition to the UFZ, the project consortium consists of the partners DECHEMA (coordination), KIT, TU Berlin and the subcontractor NanoCASE.

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PlasticsFatE - Plastics Fate and Effects in the human body aims at improving our present understanding of the impact of micro- and nano-plastics (MP/NP) and associated additives/adsorbed contaminants (A/C) in the human body. To do so, reliable and validated methods will be developed that are able to generate the science-based data we need. PlasticsFatE is a 48-month project funded by the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme of the European Union. The project will run from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2025.

https://www.plasticsfate.eu

Chloe Wray

Postion: PhD studentMolecular Toxicology Group

Research Interests

Curriculum Vitae

Awards/Grants/other Activities

Postion: PhD student
Molecular Toxicology Group