Melissa Perry

Pesticides and Toxicogenomics

Interests focus on pre-disease exposure markers that can signal early mutational damage or hormone disruption, across the spectrum of pesticide exposure levels.

Agricultural Injuries and Exposures

Interests focus on identifying sources of farm injury including machinery and muskuloskeletal trauma and sources of hazardous exposures including pesticides, solvents and zoonoses. Also interested in quantifying the health effects of hazardous exposures through biomonitoring and identifying gene-environment relationships.

Master of Health Science (MHS), 1991, Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Science (ScD), 1993, Johns Hopkins University

Perry MJ, Marbella AM, Layde PM. Association of pesticide safety beliefs and intentions with behaviors among farm pesticide applicators. Am J Hlth Promo, 1999;14(1):18-21.

Perry MJ, Marbella AM, Layde PM. Association of pesticide safety knowledge with beliefs and intentions among farm pesticide applicators. J Occup Envir Med, 2000;42(2):187-93.

Perry MJ, Christiani DC, Dagenhart D, Tortorelli J, Mathew J, Songzoni B. Urinary biomarkers of atrazine exposure among farm pesticide applicators. Tox & Indust Hlth, 2001;16:285-90.

Perry MJ, Marbella AM, Layde PM. Compliance with label requirements for pesticide-specific personal protective equipment use. Am J Ind Med, 2002;41(1):70-73.

Perry MJ, Layde PM. Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of an agricultural safety intervention in farm communities. Am J Prev Med, 2003;24(4):310-15.

Perry MJ. Children’s agricultural health: Traumatic injuries and hazardous inorganic exposures. J Rural Health, 2003;19(3):269-78.

Perry MJ, Bi-xioang S, Hong-xi Z, Wang X, Christiani D. Emergency department visits for occupational injuries in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Ann Epidemiol 2005;15(5):351-57.

Perry MJ, Ouyang F, Venners SA, Korrick S, Altshul L, Xu X, Wang X. BMI and serum DDT in nulliparous Chinese women. Cancer, Epidemiol, Biomarkers Prev 2005;14:2433-38.

Venners SA, Korrick S, Xu X, Chen C, Guang W, Huang A, Altshul LS, Perry MJ, Fu L, Wang X. Preconception serum DDT and pregnancy loss: a prospective study using a biomarker of pregnancy. Am J Epidemiol 2005;162(8):709-16.

Ouyang F, Perry MJ, Venners SA, Chen C, Wang, X. Serum DDT, age at menarche, and menstrual cycle length. Occup Environ Med 2005;62:878-84.

Perry MJ, Marbella A, Layde PM. Non persistent pesticide exposure self-report versus biomonitoring in farm pesticide applicators. Ann Epidemiol 2006; 16(9):701-707.

Venners S, Liu X, Perry MJ, Korrick S, Li Z, Yang F, Yang J, Laslay B, Xu X, Wang X. Urinary estrogen and progesterone metabolite concentrations in menstrual cycles of fertile women with non-conception, early pregnancy loss or clinical pregnancy. Hum Repro 2006; 21(9):2272-2280.

Perry MJ, Ouyang F, Chen C, Venners S, Korrick S, Xu X, Lasley B, Wang X. A prospective study of serum DDT and progesterone and estrogen levels across the menstrual cycle in nulliparous women of reproductive age. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 164(11):1056-1064.

Perry MJ, Venners SA, Barr DB, Xu X.  Organophosphorous and pyrethroid insecticide exposures and male reproduction.  Repro Toxicol 2007; 23:113-18.

Perry MJ, Chen X, Lu X.  Automated scoring of multiprobe FISH in human spermatozoa.  Cytometry 2007 Sep 27;71A(11):968-972.

McAuliffe M,  Perry MJ. Are nanoparticles potential male reproductive toxicants? Nanotoxicology 2007 1(3): 204-08.

Perry MJ.  Effects of environmental and occupational pesticide exposure on human sperm. Human Repro Update 2008; 14 (3): 233-242.