Founded: 1989
Full Time: 0
Part Time: 50
Budget: 0.00
Director: John A. McLachlan, Ph.D.
1324 Tulane Avenue, SL-3
New Orleans, LA 70112
Telephone: 504/585-6910 FAX: 504/585-6428 E-Mail: jmclach@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Research Areas:
The CBR is an innovative, collaborative scientific and policy research institute dedicated to finding new ways to protect human health and ecosystems from the harmful effects of environmental pollutants, and is the umbrella unit for the Universityís environmental programs.
Areas of Expertise:
Research focuses on understanding the basic mechanisms by which toxic substances compromise health. This allows scientists to design prevention, intervention, and therapeutic strategies to mitigate the effects human and animal exposure have to environmental contaminants. Such research will also lead to new technologies for the removal and degradation of toxic materials from contaminated areas. Research areas also include the Mississippi River, Environmental Astrobiology, Environmental Endocrinology, and others.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
CBR is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to investigating the causes and effects of environmental problems, and devising practical solutions for them. The CBR fosters extensive collaborative research with such diverse disciplines as toxicology, medicine, epidemiology, cell and molecular biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, and information sciences. Working together, scientists in these areas can draw on each other's strengths, providing a much greater opportunity for unraveling complex biomedical problems.
Research Equipment:
("s" indicates shared equipment)
Scanalytics Wide Field Fluorescence Microscopy Facility(s)
SODMHZ Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer(s)
ICP Spectrometer for low level metals analysis(s)
Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer(s)
X-ray Flourescence Spectrometer for inorganic analysis(s)
Microwave Digestion ovens for inorganic samples(s)
Keywords:
0120003 International Business
0120004 International/Global development
0201063 Wildlife
0201065 Animal Ecology
0201067 Forest Ecology
0502015 Environmental Education
0505002 College Student
0505003 Higher Education, Private
0505010 Undergraduate Education
0606010 Environmental Engineering
0606053 Hazardous Waste Disposal/Clean-Up
0705015 Cardiovascular System
0705030 Endocrine System
0705035 Fetus
0705065 Respiratory System
0705075 Urogenital System
0705082 Mechanism of Action (Medical)
0710100 Pharmacology
0710110 Reproductive Endocrinology
0710115 Reproductive Physiology
0710137 Cancer Biology
0710138 Medical Informatics
0715013 Asthma
0715030 Birth/Congenital Defects
0715035 Cancer/Carcinogenesis
0715138 Neurological Disorders
0715167 Reproductive Disorders
0720005 Biomedical Research Training
0725005 Environmental Health
0725015 Health, Radiation Effects
0725020 Occupational Health and Safety
0725025 Poison Control
0725035 Occupational Hygiene
0725036 Environmental Medicine
0725037 Social & Economic Environment
0730070 Public Health
0730095 Women's Health
0745015 Detoxification
0745027 Disease Prevention
0755030 Etiology
0755035 Gene Cloning
0755041 Molecular Probes
0760002 Biochemical Markers
0760013 Enzymes
0760015 Gene products
0760020 Growth Factors
0760025 Hormones
0760040 Lipoproteins
0760075 Receptors
0760080 Recombinant DNA
0760085 Steroids
0775025 Prenatal Factors
0775030 Teratology
0780010 Biomedical Research Resources, other
0780015 Cell Lines
0780020 Tissue Culture
0780041 Transgenic Animals
0785050 Endocrinology
0785055 Epidemiology
0801013 Environmental Law
1002006 Biology, Developmental/Evolutionary
1002008 Biology, Molecular
1002017 Embryology
1002030 Neuroscience
1002047 Zoology
1002048 Biodegradation
1001056 Evolutionary Biology
1002058 Molecular Genetics
1002181 Pathobiology
1003002 Biochemistry
1003003 Chemical Dynamics
1003006 Chemical Effects
1003008 Chemistry, Analytical
1004015 Artificial Intelligence/Cybernetics
1004016 Data Analysis
1004018 Information Theory
1004027 Expert Systems
1004043 Computer Simulation/Modeling
1004063 Distributed Systems
1004168 Computer Modeling
1005002 Geochemistry
1005007 Geology, Coastal
1005008 Geology, Marine
1007000 Environmental Studies
1007001 Environmental Biology
1007002 Environmental Chemistry
1007003 Environmental Effects
1007004 Environmental Geography
1007005 Air Pollution
1007006 Land Pollution
1007007 Noise Pollution
1007008 Water Pollution
1007009 Toxicology
1007010 Water Resources, Environmental Impacts
1007012 Wastes, Hazardous
1007015 Environmental Conservation
1007016 Environmental Physics
1007017 EPA Laboratory Support
1007018 Global Change
1007020 Human Ecology
1007021 Industrial Waste
1007022 Natural Resources
1007024 Toxic Substances - Environmental
1007025 Waste Management
1007026 Wetlands
1008001 Coastal Processes
1008002 Estuarine Sciences
1008100 Marine Atmospheric Chemistry
1008145 Ocean Chemistry
1008170 Shallow Water Bottom Interaction
1008230 Marine Environment
1008235 Ocean Modeling
1014012 Philosophy of Science
1015205 Atmospheric Models
1015210 Atmospheric Radiation
1015510 Fluid Flow
1230015 Ecology, Aquatic
1230020 Ecology, Atmospheric
1230025 Ecology, Terrestrial
1230030 Environmental Site Use Studies
1275110 Wind, Climatology