Lauren Eaves, PhD (she/her)

Research Scientist

Contact Info: laeaves@live.unc.edu

LinkedIn: Lauren Eaves

Lauren Eaves, Phd received her BSPH from UNC Chapel Hill and her PhD in ESE from UNC Chapel Hill. Her research centers around how exposure to metal mixtures affects pregnancy outcomes and the role of molecular mechanisms in the placenta underlying these exposure-outcome relationships.

Publications:

1. Bulka C, Eaves LA, Gardner AJ, Parson Pj, Galusha AL, Roell KR, Smeester L, O’Shea TM, Fry RC. Prenatal Exposure to Multiple Metallic and Metalloid Trace Elements and the Risk of Bacterial Sepsis in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns: A Prospective Cohort Study. Frontiers in Epidemiology
2. Eaves LA, Enggasser AE, Camerota M, Gogcu S, Gower WA, Hartwell H, Jackson WM, Jensen E, Joseph RM, Marsit CJ, Roell K, Santos HP Jr, Shenberger JS, Smeester L, Yanni D, Kuban KCK, O’Shea TM, Fry RC. CpG methylation patterns in placenta and neonatal blood are differentially associated with neonatal inflammation. Pediatr Res. June 2022. doi:10.1038/s41390-022-02150-4
3. *Gavino-Lopez N, Eaves LA, Enggasser AE, Fry RC. Developing Toxic Metal Environmental Justice Indices (TM-EJIs) for Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, and Manganese Contamination in Private Drinking Wells in North Carolina. Water. 2022;14(13):2088.
4. Eaves LA, Keil AP, Rager JE, George A, Fry RC. Analysis of the novel NCWELL database highlights two decades of co-occurrence of toxic metals in North Carolina private well water: Public health and environmental justice implications. Sci Total Environ. 2022;812:151479. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151479
5. Clark J, Avula V, Ring C, Eaves LA, Howard T, Santos HP, Smeester L, Bangma JT, O’Shea TM, Fry RC, Rager JE. Comparing the Predictivity of Human Placental Gene, microRNA, and CpG Methylation Signatures in Relation to Perinatal Outcomes. Toxicol Sci. 2021;183(2):269-284. doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfab089

Full list of publications here