Robyn Leigh Tanguay | |
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| Born | Robert Tanguay 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., Biology Ph.D., Biochemistry |
| Alma mater | California State University University of California |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel R. Gallie |
| Other advisors | Richard E. Peterson |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Oregon State University |
Robyn Leigh Tanguay (born Robert Tanguay) is an American researcher, academic and educator. She is a distinguished professor in the department of environmental and molecular toxicology at Oregon State University.[1] She is the director of Superfund Research Program, the director of Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research and the director of Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory at OSU.[2]
At OSU, she leads the eponymous Tanguay Lab, where she applies systems toxicology principles using the zebrafish (Danio rerio) to discover the chemicals in the environment that can interact with expressed genomes to produce diseases and other dysfunctions. Her central hypothesis is that intrinsic chemical structures dictate biological activity. The shape of chemicals permit interactions with distinct biological targets to alter normal biological activity. She uses chemical structural information; coupled with the biological responses they produce in zebrafish, as anchors to screen for potentially hazardous chemicals and to discover new biology.[2][3]
- ^ "Robyn Tanguay". College of Agricultural Sciences.
- ^ a b "Home". Tanguay Lab.
- ^ "Robyn L. Tanguay (Formerly Robert L. Tanguay)". scholar.google.com.