The Environmental Metabolomics and Exposomics Research Group at Emory
EMERGE GROUP
Welcome To EMERGE !
We are a group of exposure scientists and molecular epidemiologists interested in measuring multi-dimensional exposures and investigating the molecular mechanisms accounting for the complex health responses to environmental mixtures. To study the molecular mechanisms and disease etiology associated with ubiquitous environmental exposures, such as air pollution and persistent organic pollutants, we have focused on incorporating high throughput omics approaches, especially the high-resolution metabolomics. In seven independent panel and cross-sectional cohort studies, we successfully demonstrated the applicability of using untargeted and semi-targeted high-resolution metabolomics as a central platform linking exposure to internal dose and biological response, where we identified specific metabolites and metabolic pathways related to traffic pollution and persistent organic pollutant exposures. These results hold great promise for identifying key connections between environmental exposures and corresponding adverse health effects. More recently, we have started integrating multi-omics data to examine the interplay between various aspects of an individual’s endogenous environment, including epigenome, metabolome, and microbiome, and exogenous environmental exposures. This holistic multi-omics approach will provide a comprehensive view of the molecular connections between environmental exposures and health effects, with potential long-term contributions in the advancement of environmental health sciences research.
Check out the “Research” and “Publication” pages to learn more about the ongoing research projects and recent publications from the Environmental Metabolomics Research Group at the Emory. We are actively recruiting motivated individuals to join our team and please click “Opportunity” to learn more about the potential research and training positions. For research collaboration and other inquiry, please use the “Contact Us” form or contact Dr. Donghai Liang directly.
Latest News
- 11/08/2023→ Check out the latest publications from the EMERGE Group! Learn more…
- 10/19/2023→ Congratulations to Kaitlin Taibl, Youran Tan, and Dr. Donghai Liang for publishing an innovative mixture-metabolomics study at Environmental Science & Technology leveraging novel environmental mixture analysis and high-resolution metabolomics to identify metabolites and metabolic pathways perturbed by exposure to a PFAS mixture during pregnancy! Learn more…
- 10/18/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Donghai Liang for being selected as the Early Stage Investigator Spotlight at the 2023 NIEHS Core Centers Meeting! Learn more…
- 10/12/2023→ Congratulations to Susan Hoffman, Youran Tan, Drs. Robert Hood and Donghai Liang for publishing a novel metabolomics study at Environmental Health Perspectives identifying internal exposure and biological responses underlying PCB and multigenerational PBB exposure for participants enrolled in the Michigan PBB Registry! Learn more…
- 09/29/2023→ Congratulations to Susan Hoffman for successfully defending her dissertation proposal! Learn more…
- 09/22/2023→ Congratulations to Drs. Robert Hood and Donghai Liang and Youran Tan for publishing a novel study at Human Reproduction examining the metabolic pathways and metabolites in the serum and follicular fluid that are associated with peak estradiol levels and the number of mature oocytes! Learn more…
- 09/14/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Donghai Liang and Yilin Wang for publishing a novel metabolomics study at Environment International examining the impact of heat exposures on human metabolome among farm workers together with colleagues from Emory School of Nursing! Learn more…
- 09/07/2023→ Congratulations to Kaitlin Taibl for successfully defending her dissertation proposal—Kait is officially a PhD candidate!! Learn more…
- 08/30/2023→ Congratulations to Susan Hoffman, Kaitlin Taibl, Youran Tan, and Ziyin Tang for winning the Conference Awards at the ISES 2023 Annual Meeting! Learn more…
- 08/27/2023→ The EMERGE Team is attending the 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISEE) between August 27-31 August in Chicago—Check out the great presentations by the group members! Learn more…
- 08/22/2023→ Congratulations to Susan Hoffman winning the prestigious Anoopa Sharma Award for Excellence in Epidemiologic Research — please join us to congratulate Susan for this excellent achievement! Learn more…
- 08/02/2023→ Congratulations to the EMERGE Team on the Nature Communication paper being selected as the Extramural Papers of the Month at NIEHS! Learn more…
- 07/19/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Donghai Liang for publishing an invited perspective on application of untargeted analysis in maternal and child health at the Environmental Health Perspectives together with Dr. Douglas Walker! Learn more…
- 06/06/2023→ Congratulations to Ziyin Tang and Sabrina Chow for their successful presentations at the high profiled ASCO annual meeting! Learn more…
- 05/30/2023→ Congratulations to our remarkable Kaitlin Taibl and Dr. Donghai Liang, along with EMERGE members Dr. Chejung Chang and Youran Tan and collaborators for publishing a high profiled paper on PFAS’s impact on newborn metabolome and fetal growth in Nature Communications! Learn more…
- 05/16/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Donghai Liang, Dr. Zhenjiang Li, Ziyin Tang, and Dr. Jeremy Sarnat for publishing an important systematic review on HRM application in air pollution health research in the high profiled EHP journal! Learn more…
- 05/06/2023→ Congratulations to 8 EMERGE members for successfully obtaining their graduate degrees! Learn more…
- 04/30/2023→ Congratulations to Sabrina Chow for receiving the highly competitive and prestigious Jane Warren Award to attend the Health Effect Institute conference. Learn more…
- 04/28/2023→ EMERGE group celebrated the end of Spring semester and to send off 8 graduating students at Thaicoon! Learn more…
- 04/21/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Donghai Liang for receiving both the GDEH departmental teaching award and the inaugural RSPH Early Career Research Excellence Award! Learn more…
- 04/15/2023→ Congratulations to Sabrina Chow, for receiving the highly competitive offer from the Emory EHS PhD program and receiving the Laney Graduate School Fellowship. Learn more…
- 04/05/2023→ Congratulations to Kaitlin Taibl, for receiving the prestigious scholar award from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO)! Learn more…
- 03/31/2023→ Congratulations to Ziyin Tang, for obtaining the prestigious Cancer Conquer award to present an oral presentation at the high profile annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology. Learn more…
- 03/31/2023→ Congratulations to Dr. Zhenjiang Li for successfully defending his PhD dissertation and became the first EMERGE PhD graduate! Learn more…
- 02/28/2023→ Check out our recent publications! to Kaitlin Taibl, Youran Tan, Natalie Shen, Dr. Jeremy Sarnat, and Dr. Donghai Liang for leading and participanting in these amazing projects! Learn more…
- 02/15/2023→ Congratulations to Sabrina Chow for receiving the admission offer from our highly competitive Emory EHS PhD Program! Learn more…
- 01/23/2023→ Congratulations to all EMERGE team members for a productive and amazing year with 33 publications, 30+ abstracts and presentations, and 12 honors and awards! Learn more…
- 01/18/2023→ Congratulations to Haoran Chen for receiving the admission offer from the highly competitive Duke-NUS Medical School Program! Learn more…