Joel Meyer, PhD, BS

Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor

Duke University

Contact Information

Office Address:

A354 Lev Sci Res Ctr

Box 90328

Durham, NC 27708

(919) 613-8109

Biography

Meyer's experience lies in understanding environmental and genetic influences on organism health, with a focus on DNA integrity (how DNA damage is caused, and repaired), oxidative stress, and processes of adaptation to pollution.

Primary area of expertise: environmental toxicology

Secondary areas of expertise: environmental genomics, environmental health, water quality

CEINT Publications

D. F. Mello, Trevisan, R. , Rivera, N. , Geitner, N. K. , Di Giulio, R. T. , Wiesner, M. R. , Hsu-Kim, H. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Caveats to the use of MTT, neutral red, Hoechst and Resazurin to measure silver nanoparticle cytotoxicity”, Chemico-Biological Interactions, vol. 315, p. 108868, 2020.

L. L. Maurer, Yang, X. , Schindler, A. J. , Taggart, R. K. , Jiang, C. , Hsu-Kim, H. , Sherwood, D. R. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Intracellular trafficking pathways in silver nanoparticle uptake and toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans”, Nanotoxicology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 831 - 835, 2016.

L. L. Maurer, Ryde, I. T. , Yang, X. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Current Protocols in Toxicology Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model for Toxic Effects of Nanoparticles: Lethality, Growth, and Reproduction”, in Current Protocols in Toxicology, L. G. Costa, Davila, J. C. , Lawrence, D. A. , and Reed, D. J. , Eds. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015, pp. 20.10.1 - 20.10.25.

D. E. Gorka, Osterberg, J. S. , Gwin, C. A. , Colman, B. P. , Meyer, J. N. , Bernhardt, E. S. , Gunsch, C. K. , DiGulio, R. T. , and Liu, J. , “Reducing Environmental Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles through Shape Control”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 49, no. 16, pp. 10093 - 10098, 2015.

C. Levard, Yang, X. , Meyer, J. N. , and Lowry, G. V. , “Response to Comment on “Sulfidation of Silver Nanoparticles: Natural Antidote to Their Toxicity””, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 6051 - 6052, 2014.

A. J. Bone, Matson, C. W. , Colman, B. P. , Yang, X. , Meyer, J. N. , and Di Giulio, R. T. , “Silver nanoparticle toxicity to Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) and Caenorhabditis elegans: A comparison of mesocosm, microcosm and conventional laboratory studies”, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2014.

J. Choi, Tsyusko, O. V. , Unrine, J. M. , Chatterjee, N. , Ahn, J. - M. , Yang, X. , Thornton, L. B. , Ryde, I. T. , Starnes, D. , and Meyer, J. N. , “A micro-sized model for the in vivo study of nanoparticle toxicity: what has Caenorhabditis elegans taught us?”, Environmental Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 227, 2014.

X. Yang, Jiang, C. , Hsu-Kim, H. , Badireddy, A. R. , Dykstra, M. , Wiesner, M. R. , Hinton, D. E. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Silver Nanoparticle Behavior, Uptake, and Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans : Effects of Natural Organic Matter”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 3486 - 3495, 2014.

J. - M. Ahn, Eom, H. - J. , Yang, X. , Meyer, J. N. , and Choi, J. , “Comparative toxicity of silver nanoparticles on oxidative stress and DNA damage in the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans”, Chemosphere, 2014.

M. D. Colton, Kwok, K. W. H. , Brandon, J. A. , Warren, I. H. , Ryde, I. T. , Cooper, E. M. , Hinton, D. E. , Rittschof, D. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Developmental toxicity and DNA damage from exposure to parking lot runoff retention pond samples in the Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes)”, Marine Environmental Research, 2014.

J. N. Meyer, Lord, C. A. , Yang, X. Y. , Turner, E. A. , Badireddy, A. R. , Marinakos, S. M. , Chilkoti, A. , Wiesner, M. R. , and Auffan, M. , “Intracellular uptake and associated toxicity of silver nanoparticles in Caenorhabditis elegans”, Aquatic Toxicology, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 140 - 150, 2010.

S. E. Hunter, Gustafson, M. A. , Margillo, K. M. , Lee, S. A. , Ryde, I. T. , and Meyer, J. N. , “In vivo repair of alkylating and oxidative DNA damage in the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of wild-type and glycosylase-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans”, DNA Repair, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 857 - 863, 2012.

M. C. Arnold, Badireddy, A. R. , Wiesner, M. R. , Di Giulio, R. T. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles are More Toxic than Equimolar Bulk Cerium Oxide in Caenorhabditis elegans”, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 224 - 233, 2013.

X. Yang, Gondikas, A. P. , Marinakos, S. M. , Auffan, M. , Liu, J. , Hsu-Kim, H. , and Meyer, J. N. , “Mechanism of Silver Nanoparticle Toxicity Is Dependent on Dissolved Silver and Surface Coating in Caenorhabditis elegans”, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 1119-1127, 2012.