Publications

O’Connor, Amber, Anna Villalobos Santeli, Sripriya Nannu Shankar, Amin Shirkhani, Tracie R. Baker, Chang-Yu Wu, Borna Mehrad, P Lee Ferguson, and Tara Sabo-Attwood. “Toxicity of microplastic fibers containing azobenzene disperse dyes to human lung epithelial cells cultured at an air-liquid interface.” Journal of Hazardous Materials 480 (December 2024): 136280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136280.

Barrett, Emily S., Jennifer L. Ames, Stephanie M. Eick, Alicia K. Peterson, Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, Anne P. Starling, Jessie P. Buckley, and ECHO Cohort Consortium. “Advancing Understanding of Chemical Exposures and Maternal-child Health Through the U.S. Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: A Scoping Review.” Current Environmental Health Reports 11, no. 3 (September 2024): 390–403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-024-00456-5.

Herkert, Nicholas J., Gordon J. Getzinger, Kate Hoffman, Anna S. Young, Joseph G. Allen, Jessica L. Levasseur, P Lee Ferguson, and Heather M. Stapleton. “Wristband Personal Passive Samplers and Suspect Screening Methods Highlight Gender Disparities in Chemical Exposures.” Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 35 (September 2024): 15497–510. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c06008.

O’Shea, T Michael, Elizabeth T. Jensen, Joe X. Yi, Barry Lester, Judy L. Aschner, Annemarie Stroustrup, Xueying Zhang, et al. “Association of Growth During Infancy with Neurodevelopment and Obesity in Children Born Very Preterm: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort.” J Pediatr 271 (August 2024): 114050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114050.

Guelfo, Jennifer L., P Lee Ferguson, Jonathan Beck, Melissa Chernick, Alonso Doria-Manzur, Patrick W. Faught, Thomas Flug, et al. “Lithium-ion battery components are at the nexus of sustainable energy and environmental release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.” Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (July 2024): 5548. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49753-5.

King, Dillon E., A Clare Sparling, Abigail S. Joyce, Ian T. Ryde, Beverly DeSouza, P Lee Ferguson, Susan K. Murphy, and Joel N. Meyer. “Lack of detectable sex differences in the mitochondrial function of Caenorhabditis elegans.” BMC Ecol Evol 24, no. 1 (April 26, 2024): 55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02238-x.

Ferguson, P. L., N. Jayasundara, J. C. Ulrich, K. Hoffman, T. Gunasekara, P. Sandamini, B. P. Jackson, and P. M. C. S. De Silva. “Response to Comment on “Glyphosate and Fluoride in High-Hardness Drinking Water Are Positively Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka”.” Environmental Science and Technology Letters 11, no. 4 (April 9, 2024): 378–79. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00150.

Ferguson, P. L., N. Jayasundara, J. C. Ulrich, K. Hoffman, T. D. K. S. C. Gunasekara, P. M. M. A. Sandamini, B. P. Jackson, and P. M. C. S. De Silva. “Rebuttal to Comment on “Glyphosate and Fluoride in High-Hardness Drinking Water Are Positively Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka”.” Environmental Science and Technology Letters 11, no. 3 (March 12, 2024): 290–91. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00151.

Overdahl, Kirsten E., Robert M. Tighe, Heather M. Stapleton, and P Lee Ferguson. “Investigating sensitization activity of azobenzene disperse dyes via the Direct Peptide Reactivity Assay (DPRA).” Food Chem Toxicol 182 (December 2023): 114108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2023.114108.

Overdahl, Kirsten E., Christopher D. Kassotis, Kate Hoffman, Gordon J. Getzinger, Allison Phillips, Stephanie Hammel, Heather M. Stapleton, and P Lee Ferguson. “Characterizing azobenzene disperse dyes and related compounds in house dust and their correlations with other organic contaminant classes.” Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) 337 (November 2023): 122491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122491.

Ulrich, J. C., K. Hoffman, T. D. K. S. C. Gunasekara, P. M. M. A. Sandamini, B. P. Jackson, P. M. C. S. De Silva, N. Jayasundara, and P. L. Ferguson. “Glyphosate and Fluoride in High-Hardness Drinking Water Are Positively Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka.” Environmental Science and Technology Letters 10, no. 10 (October 10, 2023): 916–23. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00504.

Muir, Derek C. G., Gordon J. Getzinger, Matt McBride, and P Lee Ferguson. “How Many Chemicals in Commerce Have Been Analyzed in Environmental Media? A 50 Year Bibliometric Analysis.” Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 25 (June 2023): 9119–29. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c09353.

Lindborg, A. R., K. E. Overdahl, B. Vogler, D. Lin, R. Sutton, and P. L. Ferguson. “Assessment of Long-Chain Polyethoxylate Surfactants in Wastewater Effluent, Stormwater Runoff, and Ambient Water of San Francisco Bay, CA.” ACS ES and T Water 3, no. 4 (April 14, 2023): 1233–42. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00024.

Camdzic, Dino, Rebecca A. Dickman, Abigail S. Joyce, Joshua S. Wallace, P Lee Ferguson, and Diana S. Aga. “Quantitation of Total PFAS Including Trifluoroacetic Acid with Fluorine Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.” Analytical Chemistry 95, no. 13 (April 2023): 5484–88. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c05354.

Shojaei, M., A. S. Joyce, P. L. Ferguson, and J. L. Guelfo. “Novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in an active-use C6-based aqueous film forming foam.” Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters 3 (November 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2022.100061.

Pétré, M. -. A., K. R. Salk, H. M. Stapleton, P. L. Ferguson, G. Tait, D. R. Obenour, D. R. U. Knappe, and D. P. Genereux. “Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in river discharge: Modeling loads upstream and downstream of a PFAS manufacturing plant in the Cape Fear watershed, North Carolina.” The Science of the Total Environment 831 (July 2022): 154763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154763.

Herkert, Nicholas J., Christopher D. Kassotis, Sharon Zhang, Yuling Han, Vivek Francis Pulikkal, Mei Sun, P Lee Ferguson, and Heather M. Stapleton. “Characterization of Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances Present in Commercial Anti-fog Products and Their In Vitro Adipogenic Activity.” Environmental Science & Technology 56, no. 2 (January 2022): 1162–73. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06990.

Markovich, Zachary R., Jessica H. Hartman, Ian T. Ryde, Kathleen A. Hershberger, Abigail S. Joyce, Patrick L. Ferguson, and Joel N. Meyer. “Mild pentachlorophenol-mediated uncoupling of mitochondria depletes ATP but does not cause an oxidized redox state or dopaminergic neurodegeneration in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Current Research in Toxicology 3 (January 2022): 100084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crtox.2022.100084.

Overdahl, Kirsten E., David Gooden, Benjamin Bobay, Gordon J. Getzinger, Heather M. Stapleton, and P Lee Ferguson. “Characterizing azobenzene disperse dyes in commercial mixtures and children's polyester clothing.” Environ Pollut 287 (October 15, 2021): 117299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117299.

Hunter, Brandon, Imari Walker, Robert Lassiter, Vanessa Lassiter, Jackie MacDonald Gibson, P Lee Ferguson, and Marc A. Deshusses. “Evaluation of private well contaminants in an underserved North Carolina community.” The Science of the Total Environment 789 (October 2021): 147823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147823.

Walker, I., M. D. Montaño, R. S. Lankone, D. H. Fairbrother, and P. L. Ferguson. “Influence of CNT loading and environmental stressors on leaching of polymer-associated chemicals from epoxy and polycarbonate nanocomposites.” Environmental Chemistry 18, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 131–41. https://doi.org/10.1071/EN21043.

Ulrich, Jake C., and P Lee Ferguson. “Development of a sensitive direct injection LC-MS/MS method for the detection of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in hard waters.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 413, no. 14 (June 2021): 3763–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-021-03324-5.

Getzinger, Gordon, and Lee Ferguson. “High-Throughput Trace-Level Suspect Screening for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Environmental Waters by Peak-Focusing Online Solid Phase Extraction and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.” ACS ES&T Water, April 8, 2021.

Overdahl, Kirsten E., Rebecca Sutton, Jennifer Sun, Noelle J. DeStefano, Gordon J. Getzinger, and P Lee Ferguson. “Assessment of emerging polar organic pollutants linked to contaminant pathways within an urban estuary using non-targeted analysis.” Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts 23, no. 3 (March 2021): 429–45. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0em00463d.

Getzinger, Gordon J., Christopher P. Higgins, and P Lee Ferguson. “Structure Database and In Silico Spectral Library for Comprehensive Suspect Screening of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Environmental Media by High-resolution Mass Spectrometry.” Analytical Chemistry 93, no. 5 (February 2021): 2820–27. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04109.