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Epigenetics Researcher
About Celia De La Rosa
In 2021, Celia De La Rosa led the first longitudinal study linking wildfire smoke exposure in California’s Central Valley to measurable DNA methylation shifts in children’s immune-related genes, a finding that reshaped EPA risk-assessment models for airborne particulates. She doesn’t treat epigenetics as abstract code but as lived biology: her lab grows airway organoids from donor cells, then exposes them to real-world pollutant cocktails, not purified chemicals, to map how urban smog, agricultural pesticides, and even socioeconomic stressors converge at histone H3K27ac sites. Her work rejects the ‘nature vs. nurture’ binary entirely; instead, she maps temporal windows where environmental inputs become biologically embedded, especially during adolescence, a period she calls ‘the second epigenetic sunrise’. Trained in both molecular epidemiology and Chicana feminist science studies, she co-developed the ‘Barrio Epigenome Atlas’, a community-sourced reference database capturing methylation patterns across multigenerational Latino families with varying migration histories and neighborhood green-space access.
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- “How did your wildfire smoke study change how regulators assess childhood asthma risk?”
- “What makes adolescent epigenomes uniquely responsive to social stressors?”
- “Can epigenetic changes from pesticide exposure be reversed in organoid models?”
- “How does the Barrio Epigenome Atlas challenge standard reference genomes?”