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December 2025
CONGRATULATIONS Madison Deperalto and Alexandra Alexandrescu on graduating. We wish you the best in your future. WELCOME Abby McCartney joins EPIC as a research associate on the Firefighter Cancer Initiative project funded by the State of Florida. November 2025 FUNDED Veteran's Affairs grant to study the epigenetic mechanisms of Cd toxicity in collaboration with Drs. David Lombard and Surinder Kumar. October 2025 SUBMITTED Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Proposal SUBMITTED UM Transdisciplinary Science Proposal with Drs. Aris Telonis and Natasha Solle. SUBMITTED U-LINK Chronic Disease Proposal with Dr. Samiul Amin and Casey Posner September 2025 PUBLISHED Restoring landscapes and communities: Insights from critical, urban, and plant ecology in Environmental Science and Ecotoxicology. August 2025 WELCOME Richard Popp, Jen Fermo, and Calynda Va new undergraduate researchers in the lab. FUNDED State of Florida grant to study the trangenerational effects of firefighter related contaminants on behavior. July 2025 SUBMITTED NSF CAREER Proposal May 2025 CONGRATULATIONS Gabriela Guevara on graduating and receiving the Outstanding Biology Undegraduate award. We wish you the best in your future. WELCOME South Florida Program Scholars Mariangel Raschiery, Rafael Simon and Jorge Cruz. Published Swimming into view: Zebrafish uncover targets, mechanisms, and therapies for Cadmium toxicity. Current Environmental Health Reports. April 2025 PRESENTED Gabriela Perez presented at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting. it was her first presentation ever. CONGRATULATIONS Jessica Okutsu on receiving an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention. March 2025 PRESENTED Jessica Okutsu and Dr. Delia Shelton present at the Society of Toxicology conference in Orlando. JIT RECEIVED for Veteran's Affairs grant with Dr. David Lombard on developing therapeutics for cadmium toxicity. February 2025 SUBMITTED NIH R-21 Selenium as a therapeutic for Cd-induced cardiotoxicity. WELCOME Ella Bousy new undergraduate in the lab. January/2025 WELCOME Alexandra Alexandrescu new undergraduate in the lab WELCOME Gabriela Perez new technician in the lab WELCOME Zach Butler new PhD student in the lab December/2024 SUBMITTED Collaborative manuscript with Drs. Allie Igwe and Karlisa Callwood on how policies affect health, biodiversity and the restorative role of phytoremediation. Fingers crossed! November/2024 CONGRATULATIONS Jessica Okutsu named a Frost Institute Information and Data Science and Computing Fellow. PRESENTED Delia Shelton gives a seminar "Cd Toxicity and Potential Therapies in a Zebrafish Model" at Auburn University and attends Southeastern Society of Toxicology meeting. Thank you Dr. Priscila Falagan Lotsch for hosting me. October/2024 FUNDED SIGNAL Grant from the Animal Behavior Society for a professional development workshop for graduate students. SUBMITTED EPA Gulf of Mexico: "Swarm the Storm: Transforming stormwater with zebrafish swarms and phytoremediation" SUBMITTED AHA Collaborative Proposal: "Epigenetic Therapies for Inflammation." SUBMITTED NSF GRFP - Jessia Okutsu NIH PANEL - Delia Shelton served on the NIH NIEHS Environmental Determinants of Disease Review Panel CONGRATULATIONS Shelton lab won 1st place in the Halloween Door Decorating Contest. September/2024 SUBMITTED AHA Predoctoral fellowship "Therapeutic Effects of Selenium Pretreatment on Cardiovascular Function in Cadmium Exposed Zebrafish" - Jessica Okutsu CONGRATULATIONS Shelton lab won top Environmental Health and Safety lab for the University of Miami Coral Gables Campus. August/2024 ACCEPTED "Therapeutic Efficacy of Selenium Pre-treatment in Mitigating Cadmium-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Cardiovascular Toxicology. You can read the paper at the link here. SUBMITTED "Swimming Into View: Zebrafish Uncover Targets, Mechanisms, and Therapies for Cadmium Toxicity" to Current Environmental Health Reports WELCOME José Cunill Flores, new PhD student in the lab through the Abess Center for Environmental Science and Policy. WELCOME Amelia Fontana and Darlene Nkwanti-Neyou, new undergrads in the lab. July/2024 PRESENTED Reece Chapiro, NIH FYRE scholar, presented a poster at the UM Summer Research Symposium. PRESENTED Paloma Silvera, South Florida Program scholar, presented a poster at the UM Summer Research Symposium. WELCOME Leah Kucker, U Miami biochemistry undergrad, to the lab. June/2024 PRESENTED Dr. Delia Shelton presented a talk at Presidential Symposium and Turner Symposium at the Animal Behavior Society and served her final year as Member-At-Large #1. May/2024 FUNDED Toppel Internship Fund to support Gabriella Guevara's summer research in the lab. FUNDED Toppel Internship Fund to support Zach Butler's summer research in the lab. WELCOME Reece Chapiro (NIH FYRE) and Paloma Silvera (South Florida Program), summer undergrad interns in the lab. April/2024 PRESENTED Jessica Okutsu, MD Imran Noor, Hui Qiu, Zach Butler and Ethan Bentley present at Southeast Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. March/2024 ACCEPTED "Plants buffer some of the effects of a pair of cadmium-exposed zebrafish on the un-exposed majority" Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. You can read the paper at the link here. January/2024 CONGRATULATIONS MD Imran Noor for winning 1st place poster at the BioGrad symposium for his poster "Investigating transgenerational effects of chronic dietary cadmium exposure on vision, behavior, and reproductive success of zebrafish". CONGRATULATIONS Jessica Okutsu for winning 3rd place poster at the BioGrad symposium for her poster "Investigating selenium's therapeutic potential for cadmium toxicity: larval zebrafish model". |
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December/2023
TOP CITED paper in Zebrafish Shelton et al., 2020. Collective Behavior in Wild Zebrafish. 17(4), 243-252. https://doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2019.1851 CONGRATULATIONS Makeda Walker, Jalen Gordon, and Jackson Mariner on graduating! Your futures are bright. WELCOME Dr. Rick Relyea visits the lab! November/2023 WELCOME Dr. Priscila Falagan-Lotsch visits the lab! PRESENTED Drs. Delia Shelton and Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu present at the DEI mini-grant showcase. October/2023 SUBMITTED AHA Collaborative Proposal: Epigenetic Therapy for Cadmium-induced Cardiovascular Remodeling and Inflammation. September/2023 WELCOME Teilil Garcia and Zach Butler, new undergrad researchers in the lab. August/2023 WELCOME Jenna Robinson, Beck Koop and Madison Deperalto new undergrad researchers in the lab. 
July/2023
PRESENTED posters at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congrats Jenny Parral, Kennedy Smith and Claudia Flores Ruiz! We enjoyed you and hope you come back to visit. SUBMITTED EPA South Florida Program Grant: "Swarm the Storm: Transforming stormwater with zebrafish swarms and phytoremediation" SUBMITTED Belmont Collaborative Research Actions Grant: Mapping the Behavioral and Environmental Drivers of Human Exposure to Harmful Algal Blooms to Safeguard Human Health with Dr. Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbrez. PRESENTED Dr. Delia Shelton presented a talk at Presidential Symposium at the Animal Behavior Society and became Member-At-Large #1 June/2023 WELCOME Thomas Green and Ana Cecilia Dal Bo, high school students in the University of Miami Young Scholars Program. FUNDED Global Black Studies fellowship to support Makeda Walker's research on strain differences in zebrafish vision. WELCOME Claudia Flores Ruiz, Miami-Dade County scholar. FUNDED Toppel Internship Fund to support Ethan Bentley's research on strain differences in zebrafish vision. May/2023 WELCOME Jenny Parral and Kennedy Smith supported by NSF DUE HSI and NIH FYER awards, respectively. WELCOME Hui Qiu and Jackson Mariner, new undergrad researchers. 
April/2023
ACCEPTED "A Pair of Cadmium-exposed Zebrafish Affect Social Behavior of the Un-exposed Majority" into the Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. March/2023 SUBMITTED Beyond the Books Fellowship by Ethan Bentley and Makeda Walker to support their summer research on strain differences in the optomotor response and the therapeutic effects of selenium. SUBMITTED Charles H. Turner Fellowship by Jalen Gordon to attend the Animal Behavior Society meeting FUNDED UMiami Diversity Grant for UM Junior Faculty of Color Writing Group with Dr. Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu. WELCOME Ethan Bentley, new undergrad researcher. February/2023 FUNDED NIH NIEHS Diversity Supplement to Support Myles Covington's study of the therapeutic effects of selenium Dr. Antiño Allen visits the lab! January/2023 WELCOME Makeda Walker, new undergrad research. She is studying strain differences in vision in zebrafish. WELCOME MD Imran Noor, new PhD Student. Noor will be study the transgenerational effects of dietary cadmium exposure. |
2022
December/2022
Drs. Oliver Bracko and Delia Shelton submitted a DoD grant to gain a mechanistic understanding of the contributions of cadmium to Alzheimer's Disease. We had a lab end of the year party. We also said goodbye to Tatiana Mailli. We are sad to her go and wish her the best. November/2022 WELCOME Myles Covington, new lab manager. Myles also submitted an NIH NIEHS Diversity Supplement to study neuro and genetic mechanisms by selenium may mitigate the effects of cadmium toxicity. September/2022 NIH NIEHS R00 Pathway to Independence Award Funded August/2022 Sarah Saint Fleur from Green Scientific Labs presents on Good Laboratory Notebook practices EPA Grant Submitted July/2022 Dr. Shelton presents at the Animal Behavior Society Meeting and attends ABS Executive Meeting as Member-At-Large Jalen Gordon joins EPIC EPIC temporary lab space gets a makeover June/2022 NIH NIEHS R00 Pathway to Independence Award submitted May/2022 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Diversity Leadership Grant Submitted April/2022 NIH NIEHS K99 successfully transferred to UM March/2022 Tatiana Mailli, Patrick Janssens and Jeremy Saintyl join Epic February/2022 EPIC Opens at University of Miami |
2021
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December/2021
Paper published in the Journal of Zoology! August/2021 Delia Shelton accepted faculty position in the biology department at the University of Miami. Go Canes! |
2020
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July/2020
-Arianna Sanchez and Jeff Kelly present papers on the effects of cadmium on social and visual behavior in zebrafish at the Animal Behavior Society meeting. -Delia Shelton published in Nature on Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Evolution and Ecology. The paper is the 3rd most viewed paper in Nature for papers of a comparable age. June/2020 -Shelton was featured in Science Magazine about the equity concerns related to GRE (read here). -CONGRATS Cindy Zurita Cruz, Summer Estes and Juliana Garcia on graduating!!! -Zebrafish article on collective behavior on wild zebrafish is out! Read here. May/2020 -CONGRATS Halima Amro on graduating!!! We wish you the best as you study hard for the MCAT. You'll make an amazing doctor. -CONGRATS Jeff Kelly on his 1st first-author publication "Inconsistent Regulation of Larval Zebrafish Research" in Aquatic Biology of Fishes. March/2020 -Shelton awarded NIH NIEHS K99/R00 to understand the dietary cadmium effects on her behavior, brain and genes of zebrafish. February/2020 -CONGRATS Myra Bower on her SR-EIP internship at University of Colorado- Boulder! -CONGRATS Gabriel Issac on your internship at Virginia Tech! |
2019
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October/2019
Shelton attends Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists in Boise, Idaho. September/2019 Shelton attends US Trout Farmers Association meeting to continue interviewing farmers about the challenges they face with rearing food fish. July/2019 Shelton receives a score of 17 on her NIH NIEHS K99/R00 proposal. Her project will likely get funded. Yay! June/ 2019
Team Visioglow traveled +10,000 miles to completes 127 customer discovery interviews. Made final presentation ar NSF I-Corps in Nashville, TN. (watch here) May/2019 Team Visioglow joins NSF I-Corps in Nashville, TN. March/2017 Shelton submits NIH NIEHS K99/R00: Cadmium-Induced Behavioral Disorders Across Generations. Shelton presents at the Gordon Research Conference: 2019 Movement Ecology of Animals in Italy. Feb/2019 Shelton Nominated for OSU Breaking Barriers Award: Harriet “Hattie” Redmond Award Jan/2019 Visioglow joins NSF I-Corps in Portland, OR with the Cornell University Teaching Team. |
2018
 Tour of Japanese Zebrafish Resource Center with first Japanese scientist to bring zebrafish to Japan, Prf, Okamoto!
12/28/2018
Shelton was nominated for OSU Frances Dancy Hooks Award for building bridges across cultures. 12/06/2018 NSF grant funded! NSF I-corps will permit customer discovery for my technology Visioglow. Read more about my grant and technology here. 10/31/2018 Shelton gives an invited talk at RIKEN Brain Science Center and visits the lab of professor Hitoshi Okamoto in Tokyo, Japan. One of my goals is to meet researchers around globe, especially zebrafish researchers. I had a wonderful visit with professor Okamoto, the first scientist to bring zebrafish to Japan.  Enjoying Soba noodles with the Araki lab after my talk.
10/26/2018
Wiley #top20articles award for one of the most influential articles in recent history to Shelton & Alberts, 2018 10/24/2018 Shelton gives an invited talk at Hokkaido University and visits the lab of professor Hitoshi Araki in Sapporo, Japan. I had a fantastic visit with the Araki lab. I received thoughtful feedback on my research, especially from an ecological perspective. It's wonderful to interact with talented scientists. 10/19/2018 We passed the two-round application interview process for NSF I-Corp. It was an intense learning experience as we were a multidisciplinary team (business leader, computer scientist, and biologist) coped with learning to speak a new and common language as we embarked into start-up world. The toughness of the collaboration was compounded because we were operating in 3 different time zones, and at times in 3 different countries! We succeeded, as NSF I-Corp Invited us (team Visioglow) to submit a full proposal.  Fantastic talk by Society of Toxicology intern Fahren Nipple.
10/14/2018
Tanguay lab presents at PANWAT! I attended my first Toxicology meeting. It gave me new perspectives on my work. Interacting with this community of researchers was exciting. PANWAT provided in-house professional development and diversity training. I also sneaked in time to conduct customer discovery interviews for Visioglow. 08/09/2018 Congrats Society of Toxicology intern, Fahren Nipple on a fantastic final presentation. We enjoyed you! Represent at Albany State, HBCU. 08/02/2018 ABS welcomes 10 Turner Awardees! Drs. Delia Shelton and Carrie Hall coordinate the Charles H. Turner workshop at the 55th annual Animal Behavior society meeting. 06/12/2018 NIH K-99 Submitted |