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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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Rui Xiao

Louisiana State University

Comparative Biomedical Sciences

School of Veterinary Medicine
Skip Bertman Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

rxiao1@tigers.lsu.edu

Project List:

Developmental Toxicity of Weathered Water-in-Oil Emulsions in Fish Embryos

Year One Block Grant - Louisiana State UniversityRole: Research Staff, Graduate Student - PhD Level

Dispersant Surfactants: Effect on Oil & Oil Soot Constituent Bioaccumulation and Developmental Toxicity in the Fish Embryo

Year One Block Grant - Louisiana State UniversityRole: Research Staff, Graduate Student - PhD Level

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Article - 1
2012
Bui, A., Xiao, R., Perveen, Z., Kleinow, K., & Penn, A. (2012). Zebrafish embryos sequester and retain petrochemical combustion products: Developmental and transcriptome consequences. Aquatic Toxicology, 108, 23–32.
Conference Presentations - 4
2012
Kleinow, K. M., Bui, A. T., Perveen, Z., Thibodeaux, L. J., Xiao, R., Fritz, S., et al. (2012). Effect of Deepwater Horizon light crude oil emulsion with and without the dispersant, Corexit, upon early fish development. In Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, March 11-15, 2012.
2011
Bui, A. T., Xiao, R., Perveen, Z., Thibodeaux, L. J., Penn, A., Fritz-Kleinow, S. M., et al. (2011). Stage of toxicological vulnerability and gene expression changes in a developing fish model following exposure to a Deep Horizon light crude oil emulsion. In Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Meeting. Pensacola Beach, FL, April 26-28, 2011.
Penn, A. L., Xiao, R., Bui, A. T., Perveen. Z., & Kleinow, K. M. (2011). Co-localization of combustion-derived polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and endogenous lipids in zebrafish embryos: Genomic effects and implications for the Deep Horizon oil spill cleanup. In International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms (PRIMO). Long Beach, CA, May 14-18, 2011.
Xiao, R., Bui, A. T., Kleinow, K. M., & Penn, A. L. (2011). Zebrafish embryos sequester petrochemical combustion products in lipid droplets, with up-regulation of biotransformation, oxidative stress and inflammation-related genes. In Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, August 6-10, 2012.