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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts

Email: asuvorov@schoolph.umass.edu
A. Suvorov Environmental Health Sciences Department Website

Ph.D.: Ecology and Evolution Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Postdoctoral Training: Sherbrooke University, Canada; Boston University

Developmental Reprograming of Metabolism and Behavior by Environmental Endocrine Disruptors

Environmental endocrine disruptors (EEDs) are chemicals that may interfere with the body’s endocrine system and produce adverse effects in both humans and wildlife.

Exposure to these substances during critical periods of prenatal or neonatal life may cause permanent reprogramming of target tissues which often do not present immediate phenotypes but can ultimately lead to adulthood onset diseases. The growing evidence indicates that underlying molecular mechanisms of this reprograming include long-term changes in chromatin structure and accessibility for transcr