Nicole Comfort Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Nicole Comfort Nicole Comfort is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Environmental Health Sciences Department, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York, New York. She received her undergraduate with honors degree from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) in 2015, and a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where she currently works.During Dr. Comfort's training she became interested in extracellular vesicles and incorporating them into environmental health research paradigms. As a predoctoral candidate, she studied extracellular vesicle microRNA as biomarkers of ambient air pollution exposure and prodromal disease under the tutelage of Dr. Andrea Baccarelli.Ms. Comfort received a F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the NIH and completed her Ph.D. in August 2021. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, she is working with Drs. Diane Re and Andrea Baccarelli studying cell-type specific extracellular vesicles in the context of various neurological disorders including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Publications Sex-Specific Neurotoxic Effects of Organophosphate Pesticides Across the Life Course Current Environmental Health Reports. 12, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29063415 Análise de rastreamento de nanopartículas para a quantificação e determinação de tamanho de vesículos extracelulares Nicole Comfort1, Kunheng Cai2, Tessa R. Bloomquist1, Madeleine D. Strait1, Anthony W. Ferrante Jr.2, Andrea A. Baccarelli1 1Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2Department of Medicine, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University JoVE 62447 Biology
Análise de rastreamento de nanopartículas para a quantificação e determinação de tamanho de vesículos extracelulares Nicole Comfort1, Kunheng Cai2, Tessa R. Bloomquist1, Madeleine D. Strait1, Anthony W. Ferrante Jr.2, Andrea A. Baccarelli1 1Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2Department of Medicine, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University JoVE 62447 Biology