Dr. Bill Lasley, PhD

Bill Lasley

Member, Environmental Health Sciences Center

Dr. Bill Lasley has two research focuses. His first is on women’s healthy aging, where he uses the nonhuman primate model for studies relevant to the health assessment and management of middle-aged women. His second focus is on how environmental hazards impact human reproductive health.

Positions at UC Davis

  • Professor Emeritus, Center for health and the environment
  • Reproductive Sciences and Regenerative Medicine Unit
  • Core Scientist, CA National Primate Center

Areas of Expertise

  • Women's Healthy Aging
  • Environmental Hazards to Human Reproductive Health

Major Research Papers

Lasley, Bill. (2023). Early exposure to wildfire smoke can lead to birth defects. Frontiers in Toxicology. 5. 1050555. 10.3389/ftox.2023.1050555.

Capitanio, John & Rosso, Laura & Gee, Nancy & Lasley, Bill. (2022). Adverse biobehavioral effects in infants resulting from pregnant rhesus macaques’ exposure to wildfire smoke. Nature Communications. 13. 10.1038/s41467-022-29436-9.

Willson, Bryn & Gee, Nancy & Willits, Neil & Lijuan, Li & Zhang, Qi & Pinkerton, Kent & Lasley, Bill. (2021). Effects of the 2018 Camp Fire on Birth Outcomes in Non-human Primates: Case-Control Study. Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.). 105. 10.1016/j.reprotox.2021.08.005.

Lasley, Bill & McConnell, Daniel & Crawford, Sybil. (2021). A Simple Algorithm is Created for Identifying Intermenstrual Intervals Containing an Oscillatory LH Pattern That Associates With Vasomotor Symptoms Using Daily Urinary LH Excretion in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Journal of the Endocrine Society. 5. A727-A728. 10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1480. 

McConnell, Daniel & Crawford, Sybil & Gee, Nancy & Bromberger, Joyce & Kazlauskaite, Rasa & Avis, Nancy & Crandall, Carolyn & Joffe, Hadine & Kravitz, Howard & Derby, Carol & Gold, Ellen & El Khoudary, Samar & Harlow, Siobán & Greendale, Gail & Lasley, Bill. (2021). Lowered progesterone metabolite excretion and a variable LH excretion pattern are associated with vasomotor symptoms but not negative mood in the early perimenopausal transition: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. Maturitas. 147. 10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.03.003