| Academic degree: | Prof. |  | | Last name: | Giesy | | First name: | John P. | | Responsible for: | Aquatic environment, chemical fate of pollutants, | | Organization/Institute: | University of Saskatchewan | | Department: | Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences | | Position: | Professor & Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology | | Street, Number, POB: | Campus Drive 44 | | Postal code, City: | SK S7N 5B3 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | | State: | | | Country: | Canada | | Phone: | + 1 - 517 - 353 - 20 00 | | Fax: | + 1 - 517 - 432 - 19 84 | | E-mail address: | jgiesy@aol.com | | Url: | http://www.msu.edu/user/giesy | | Curriculum vitae: | University contact information:
John P. Giesy, Ph.D.
Professor & Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology
Dept. Veterinary Biomedical Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
44 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5B3
Canada
Tel (direct): 306-966-2096
Tel (Secretary): 306-966-4680
FAX: 306-966-4796
Mobile: 517-614-6123
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Dr. John P. Giesy
RR 5, Site 515, Box 15
Saskatoon, SK S7K 3J8
CANADA
Tel: Home Land line: 306-955-3819
Cell: 517-614-6123
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Rural municipality of Corman Park
Hidden Ridge Estates
Dr. John P. Giesy is Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where he is also a Professor of Veterinary Medicine and on the faculties of the Center for Integrative Toxicology and a member of the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.
Prof. Giesy is a world leading ecotoxicologist with interests in many aspects of ecotoxicology, including both the fates and effects of potentially toxic compounds and elements, particularly in the area of ecological risk assessment.
He has conducted research into the movement, bioaccumulation and effects of toxic substances at different levels of biological organization, ranging from biochemical to ecosystem.
Prof. Giesy has done extensive research in the areas of metal speciation, multi-species toxicity testing, biochemical indicators of stress in aquatic organisms, fate and effects of PAHs, halogenated hydrocarbons, including chlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and -furans, PCBs and pesticides.
Prof. Giesy discovered the phenomenon of photo-enhanced toxicity of organic compounds, such as PAHs. His studies include both laboratory and field as well as mesocosm studies and apply tools from molecular biology to ecosystem-level. He was the first to discover perfluorinated compounds in the environment, an important new class of environmental contaminants.
Currently, Prof. Giesy and his research group are actively studying the toxicity and reproductive effects of organic compounds, with special emphasis on herbicides, chlorinated dioxins and perfluorinated compounds. Studies are being conducted in the field and laboratory on frogs, fish, fish eating birds and mammals in the Great Lakes region, including mink and raptors such as hawks and eagles and in marine mammals. Prof. Giesy is an expert in ecological risk assessment. | | Areas of interest: | | zoology | | veterinary medicine | | polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) | | polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) | | mesocosm studies | | ecotoxicology | | Dioxine und Furane | | aquatic environment, chemical fate of pollutants | | |
| | Articles: | 15 ESPR (4) 332-343 (2008), Modulation of steroidogenesis by coastal waters and sewage effluents of Hong Kong, China, using the H295R assay
14 ESPR_Special (1) 23-30 (2007), The OECD Validation Program of the H295R Steroidogenesis Assay for the Identification of In Vitro Inhibitors and Inducers of Testosterone and Estradiol Production. Phase 2: Inter-Laboratory Pre-Validation Studies (8 pp)
14 ESPR (2) 85-87 (2007), Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Increases the Genotoxicity of Cyclophosphamide in the Micronucleus Assay with V79 Cells: Further Proof of Alterations in Cell Membrane Properties Caused by PFOS (3 pp)
12 ESPR (4) 189-198 (2005), Distribution of PCDDs and PCDFs in Soils Collected from the Denver Front Range - Principal Components Analysis of Diffuse Dioxin Sources (10 pp)
11 ESPR (6) 378 (2004), Science-Based Decision Making to Reduce Risks from Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) - Joint Workshop of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, SCOPE-China and the US National Academies, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China, June 7–10
11 ESPR (6) 347-348 (2004), Authors’ Perspective: Assessment of Potential Exposure to Agent Orange and Its Associated TCDD (2 pp)
11 ESPR (6) 359-370 (2004), Environmental Fate and Bioavailability of Agent Orange and Its Associated Dioxin During the Vietnam War (12 pp)
7 ESPR (3) 159-171 (2000), Cell Bioassays for Detection of Aryl Hydrocarbon (AhR) and Estrogen Receptor (ER) Mediated Activity in Environmental Samples
7 ESPR (3) 175-184 (2000), SCRAM: A Scoring and Ranking System for Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Substances for the North American Great Lakes
7 ESPR (2) 115-121 (2000), SCRAM: A Scoring and Ranking System for Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Substances for the North American Great Lakes
7 ESPR (4) 219-224 (2000), SCRAM: A Scoring and Ranking System for Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Substances for the North American Great Lakes
7 ESPR (1) 51-61 (2000), SCRAM: A Scoring and Ranking System for Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Substances for the North AmericanGreat Lakes
6 ESPR (4) 200-206 (1999), Butyltin Compounds in Sediment and Fish from the Polish Coast of the Baltic Sea
1 ESPR (2) 69-74 (1994), Immunoassay Monitoring of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Great Lakes
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