NIEHS Center Colloquium Speaker Series: Zhengui Xia

Zhengui Xia,
Professor,

University of Washington

Dr. Xia is a Professor in the Toxicology Program and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at University of Washington. She is a Faculty member in two interdisciplinary graduate programs at University of Washington: Neurobiology and Behavior (N&B) Graduate Program and the Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) Graduate Program. She is also the deputy director of the UW Superfund Research Program (SRP). Dr. Xia’s main research interests are to investigate whether and how exposure to environmental neurotoxicants including heavy metals may perturb adult neurogenesis (the generation of functional neurons in the adult brain) and impair olfaction and cognition. She is especially interested in how interactions between genes and environmental factors (GXE) may affect these processes and accelerate memory decline in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease.