Environmental Distinguished Lecture Series

Genes, Germs and the Environment: An Ecological Perspective on Health and Disease

John McLachlan, Thursday, February 18, 2010

4:30pm, Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)

John McLachlan, Ph.D., Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of pharmacology, and director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane University and Xavier University in New Orleans, is a pioneer in the new field of environmental endocrinology and endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

As a research scientist and high-level administrator, he is known throughout the world as an expert on estrogenic mechanisms. His groundbreaking research is related to environmental chemicals that mimic the female hormone, estrogen. He organized the first meeting on environmental estrogens in 1979.

Before coming to Tulane and Xavier in 1995, McLachlan spent the previous two decades at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where he was named Scientific Director of 1989. In his first five years in New Orleans, McLachlan established the Program in the Environment and Women’s Health, formed the nation’s first Center in Environmental Astrobiology, and initiated the Mississippi River Interdisciplinary Research Program.

McLachlan's Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory uses cutting-edge techniques to study environmental estrogens, natural, and synthetic chemicals that interact with the estrogen receptor. His scientific findings have been published in more than 160 journal articles, 50 book chapters, and five books.

He received a B.A. in liberal arts from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from George Washington University.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Green Science and the Chemistry Department, the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and The Shaw Group

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