Assistant Professor
Email: nicklisch@ucdavis.edu
Office: 4117 Meyer Hall
Personal Professional Website:
https://nicklischlab.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
Research:
Molecular mechanisms underlying pollutant and drug bioaccumulation in organisms. Our research focuses on understanding how pollutants and drugs can enter and accumulate in cells, despite them being equipped with a battery of defense proteins (i.e. drug transporters), there to recognize and export any type of foreign chemical. We seek to determine current drug and pollutant levels in different types of food organisms and to identify their molecular interactions with major drug transporters in humans and other organisms.
Specialties/Focus:
Membrane Protein Biochemistry
Enzyme Kinetics
Structural Biology
Molecular Toxicology
Education and Experience:
- University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and University of Osnabruck, Osnabruck, Germany – PhD in Protein Biochemistry – 2005-2008
- University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany – MS in Biological Sciences – 1999-2005
Teaching:
- ETX 103A - Biological Effects of Toxicants
- ETX 190/290 - Current Topics in Environmental Toxicology
Campus Memberships:
- First Generation Faculty Learning Community
- ACCELERATE Fellow
- Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry Graduate Group
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Group