Prof, ast resrch
Biological Sciences
105 Schrenk Hall
Niranjana Krishnan (she/her) obtained her PhD in Toxicology from the Entomology department at Iowa State University. Working with Profs. Steven Bradbury and Joel Coats, she assessed the risk of insecticide exposures on monarch butterflies. Niranjana obtained a Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from University of Mumbai and a Master's degree in Biomedical Genetics from Vellore Institute of Technology, India.
Niranjana's current research interest is to apply in vivo, in vitro, and in silico techniques to estimate risk of chemical exposures on insect species, including species of conservation concern. This is being undertaken via three research themes that employ the adverse outcome pathway (AOP) framework:
Research Theme 1: AOP development from molecular initiating events to organismal effects
Research Theme 2: AOP development from organismal to population level effects
Research Theme 3: AOP employment to inform interspecies extrapolation
Insect toxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Pesticides
Conservation of at-risk invertebrate species, Advancing Tox21 in invertebrate toxicology