Perspectives on ocean health: Toxicology of organic contaminants to endangered marine species

Dr. Godard-Codding's research interests focus on genomic and cellular toxicology, mechanistic toxicology, endangered wildlife ecotoxicology and conservation,  biomarkers, robustness and resilience to stress in marine organisms.  Species of special interest are marine mammals and sea turtles.  She is specifically interested in creating and using sea turtle cell lines to determine the sensitivity of these species to marine pollutants and in cloning and expressing key dolphin metabolizing enzymes in order to assess their ability to process chemicals.