Chensheng (Alex) Lu, 呂陳生, PhD, MS
Distinguished Professor, College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China
Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA
Affiliate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering, Tufts University, Medford MA, USA
My research focuses on assessing pesticide exposure and its toxicological effects in ecological and human health. I am particularly interested in utilizing innovative research platforms to characterize pesticide toxicity using biomarker approach, and then seek for mechanistic interpretations for the adverse health effects. One of my current research projects involves in the exploration of trans-generational toxicological effects of neonicotinoids, a group of the most commonly used insecticides worldwide, in sensitive non-target organisms in the environment.
Before being appointed as the Distinguished Professor at Southwest University in Chongqing, China in May 2018, I was on the faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston MA, USA, from 2008-2018. Before that, I was an Assistant Professor at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, from 2004-2008. I received my PhD degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle WA, in 1996. I have served as an Associate Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) between 2006 and 2016, and on several committees at the federal and state levels, including the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to US Environmental Protection Agency under the authority of the Federal Insecticides, Fungicides, and Rodenticides Act (FIFRA) since 2004 and the National Academy of Science (NAS) since 2013. I am currently an Adjunct Professor at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, the University of Washington, and Tufts University.
This presentation will focus on the onset of the phenomenon of honeybee colony collapse disorder (CCD), the ubiquity of neonicotinoids in our environment and its association to CCD, the reaction of saving honeybees and pollinating insects worldwide, and the implications of CCD to the ecology.