Doctoral Student

Dahlia received her BS in Biology at UNC Charlotte. As an undergraduate, she was in the honors program, with Dr. Huet as her mentor. Dahlia's honors project focused on investigating the effect of neonatal 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin exposure on c-myc and egfr expression in adult AHR congenic mice. Now, as a graduate student, she continues to work with Dr. Huet, as well as Drs. Schrum and Steuerwald. This collaborative project encompasses investigating how the gender effect on liver damage, caused by alcohol, may be related to the developmental differences of sex steroid hormones on liver alcohol metabolism.