Andrew Whitehead

Associate Member, Environmental Health Sciences Center

Dr. Andrew Whitehead is Chair and Professor of the Department of Environmental Toxicology. His lab focuses on how genomes integrate cues from, respond to, and are shaped by the external environment.

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Positions at UC Davis

  • Chair and Professor at Department of Environmental Toxicology
  • PI, Whitehead's Lab

Areas of Expertise

  • Ecotoxicology
  • Evolutionary toxicology
  • Trans-generational toxicology

Major Research Papers

Miller, J.R., B.W. Clark, N.M. Reid, S.I. Karchner, J.L. Roach, M.E. Hahn, D. Nacci, and A. Whitehead (2023). Independently evolved pollution resistance in four killifish populations is largely explained by few variants of large effect. BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2023.04.07.536079.

Dong, Y., T.S. Blanchard, A. Noll, P. Vasquez, J. Schmitz, S.P. Kelly, P.A. Wright, and A. Whitehead (2021). Genomic and physiological mechanisms underlying skin plasticity during water to air transition in an amphibious fish. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224: jeb235515.

Oziolor, E.M., N.M. Reid, S. Yair, K.M. Lee, S. Guberman VerPloeg, P.C. Bruns, J.R. Shaw, A. Whitehead*, and C.W. Matson* (2019). Adaptive introgression enables evolutionary rescue from extreme environmental pollution. Science. 364: 455-457.

Education and Degree(s)
  • PhD, UC Davis