Dr Sibylle Ermler
Lecturer in Biosciences (Endocrinology and Metabolism)
Heinz Wolff 001
- Email: sibylle.ermler@brunel.ac.uk
Research area(s)
Human toxicology; Metabolism disruption; Endocrine disruption; Developmental origins of health and disease; Mixture toxicology and risk assessment; Human relevant in vitro models; Novel foods; Space travel.
Research Interests
My current research focuses on the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on adipogenesis. My aim is to elucidate how environmental exposures can lead to metabolic disorders such as obesity and which role different fat compartments, such as white and brown adipose tissues may play. A focus is on exposures in early life. In addition, my research interests are in the toxicology of chemical mixtures, the implications of mixture effects for human health and how mixture toxicology impacts on the need for cumulative risk assessment of chemical substances. In the past, I have also investigated the combined effects of genotoxic compounds with focus on aneugenic benzimidazole pesticides but also including agents which act via other modes of action. Furthermore, I studied the mixture effects of environmental and food contaminants that act as endocrine disruptors, in particular anti-antiandrogens and estrogens. I am interested in the hypothesis that cumulative exposure to environmental endocrine disruptors and other compounds contributes to the development of human diseases, such as obesity and cancer.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: Breast Cancer UK
Duration: January 2020 - December 2021
Funder: Royal Society
Duration: December 2019 - November 2021
Funder: European Food Safety Authority
Duration: February 2019 - February 2020
Funder:
Duration: January 2019 - January 2024
Funder: European Joint Research Centre
Duration: January 2018 - December 2018
Research links
Co-author network
- Prof Andreas Kortenkamp
- Mr Martin Scholze
- Dr Elisabete Silva
- Miss Joanne Mcphie
- Dr Asma Baig
- Prof Paola Vagnarelli
- Dr Alice Baynes
- Dr Bin Zhang
- Prof Arturo Sala
- Dr Ruth Mackay
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