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Where Environmental Biology and Chemistry Meet

Barney J. Venables

Educational Background:

Ph.D., Biology, Univ. North Texas, Denton Texas 1976

M.S., Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 1972

B.A., Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas 1970

Positions:

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.  2003-Present.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas.  1999-Present.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.  1985-2003.

President, TRAC Laboratories, Inc., Pensacola, Florida and Denton, Texas, 1980-2003.

Organization of American States Visiting Professor, Instituto Oceanografico Universidad de Oriente, Cumana, Venezuela.  1978-1980.

Visting Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Oklahoma.  1976-1977..

Scientific Membership:

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Research Interests:
Environmental biology and chemistry.

Courses Taught:

Environmental Chemistry (Undergraduate/ Graduate)
Techniques in Environmental Analysis (Graduate)

Selected Publications

Goven, A.J., B.J. Venables and L.C. Fitzpatrick. In Press.  Earthworms as ecosentinels for chemical-induced immunotoxicity.  In: H. Tryphonas et al., (Eds.) Investigative Toxicology.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl.

Hemming, J., H. J. Allen, K.A. Thuesen, P.K. Turner, W.T. Waller, J.M. Lazorchak, D. Lattier, M. Chow, N. Denslow and B. Venables.  2004.  Temporal and spatial variability in the estrogenicity of a municipal wastewater effluent.  Ecotox. Environ. Safety 57(3): 275-282.

Chapman, K.D., B.J. Venables, E.E. Dian and G.W. Gross.  2003.  Identification and quantification of neuroactive N-acylethanolamines in cottonseed processing fractions.  JAOCS 80(3):223-229.

Hemming, J. M., W.T. Waller, M.C. Chow, N.D. Denslow and B.J. Venables.  2001.  Assessment of the efficacy of a constructed wetland system to reduce or remove wastewater effluent estrogenicity and toxicity using biomarkers in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas RAFINESQUE, 1820).  Env. Toxicol. Chem. 20(10):2268-2275.

Tripathy, S., B. Venables, and K. Chapman.  1999.  N-acylethanolamines in signal transduction of elicitor perception.  Attenuation of alkalinization response and activation of defense gene expression.  Plant Physiol. 121:1299-1308.

Chapman, K.D., B. Venables, R. Markovic, R. Blair and C. Bettinger.  1999.  N-acylethanolamines in seeds.  Quantification of molecular species and their degradation upon imbibition.  Plant Physiol. 120:1157-1164.

Cikutovic, M.A., L.C. Fitzpatrick, A.J. Goven, B.J. Venables, M.A. Giggleman and E.L. Cooper.  1999.  Wound-healing in earthworms Lumbricus terrestris : A cellular-based biomarker for assessing sublethal chemical toxicity.  Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 62:508-514.

Burch, S., L.C. Fitzpatrick, A. J. Goven, B.J. Venables and M.A. Giggleman.  1999.  In-vitro earthworm Lumbricus terrestris coelomocyte assay for use in terrestrial toxicity identification evaluation. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 62:547-554.

Giggleman, M., L.C. Fitzpatrick, A.J. Goven and B.J. Venables.  1998.  Effects of Pentachlorophenol (PCP) on survival of earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and on phagocytosis by their immunoactive coelomocytes.  Environ. Toxicol. Chem.  17 (12):2391-2394.

Chapman, Kent D., Swati Tripathy, Barney Venables, and Arland D. Desouza.  N-Acylethonalamines: Formation and Molecular Composition of a New Class of Plant Lipids.  Plant Physiol. (1998) 116: 1163-1168.

Goven, A.J., L.C. Fitzpatrick and B.J. Venables.  1996.  Chemical toxicity and host defense in invertebrates: An earthworm model for immunotoxicity.  In: J.S. Stolen et al. (Eds), Modulators of Immune Response: The Evolutionary Trail.  Ch. 32:375-389.  SOS Publications.  Fair Haven, N.J.