Biographical Info

Dr. Young is a Professor and Chair in Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology Center for Agriculture and the Environment. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. She also serves on the EC-US Task Force on Environmental Biotechnology.

Research Areas

Examining the instrinsic ability of anaerobic communities from NY-NJ Harbor sediments todegrade alkanes and PAHs, and environmental factors which affect the activity Determining the novel microbial chemistry of the anaerobic pathways of naphthalene, methylnapthalene and phenanthrene by active consortia, and that of the alkanes by newly isolated pure cultures; Investigating methods to improve or enhance natural rates of biodegradation; Developing biochemical markers for assessing intrinsic biodegradation; Isolating novel anaerobes able to degrade additional petroleum constituents and other aromatic compounds; Characterizing the anaerobic toluene pathway in a denitrifying strain with a molecular genetic approach.

Scholarly Activities

• 2001 Research Excellence Award, Board of Trustees, Rutgers Univeristy
• 1999 Research Excellence Award, Cook College, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University
• 1996 Invited presentation to the Presidents’ Circle of the National Academy of Sciences (Advisory group to NAS President Bruce Albert, comprised of 100 buisness leaders) – Colloquium on “Water Resources for the 21st Century”; presentation title, “Environmental Biotechnology”

Recent Publications

1. Wang, JY, Michki, SN, Sitaraman, S, Banaschewski, BJ, Jamal, R, Gokey, JJ, Lin, SM, Katzen, JB, Basil, MC, Cantu, E et al.. Dysregulated alveolar epithelial cell progenitor function and identity in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. JCI Insight. 2024; :. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.183483. PubMed PMID:39699958
2. Miller, MA, Calle, PP, Gai, J, Sanchez, C, Young, L. SEROCONVERSION CAN PRECEDE CULTURE CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION IN ASIAN ELEPHANTS (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) BY DECADES. J Zoo Wildl Med. 2024;55 (4):1082-1087. doi: 10.1638/2024-0034. PubMed PMID:39699155
3. Garza, MY, Williams, TB, Ounpraseuth, S, Hu, Z, Lee, J, Snowden, J, Walden, AC, Simon, AE, Devlin, LA, Young, LW et al.. Comparing Medical Record Abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study to pooled rates identified in the data quality literature. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2024;24 (1):304. doi: 10.1186/s12874-024-02424-x. PubMed PMID:39695394 PubMed Central PMC11653794
4. Goedeke, L, Ma, Y, Gaspar, RC, Nasiri, A, Lee, J, Zhang, D, Galsgaard, KD, Hu, X, Zhang, J, Guerrera, N et al.. SGLT2 inhibition alters substrate utilization and mitochondrial redox in healthy and failing rat hearts. J Clin Invest. 2024;134 (24):. doi: 10.1172/JCI176708. PubMed PMID:39680452 PubMed Central PMC11645152
5. Law, KF, Syropoulos, S, O’Connor, BB, Young, L. The Probabilistic Price of Life Across Time: Generational and Probabilistic Distance Render a Life Today Worth More Than Ten Tomorrow. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2024; :1461672241303993. doi: 10.1177/01461672241303993. PubMed PMID:39676757
6. Dowling, GP, Daly, GR, Hegarty, A, Flanagan, M, Ola, M, Fallon, R, Cocchiglia, S, Singh, V, Sheehan, KM, Bane, F et al.. Neoadjuvant HER2 inhibition induces ESR1 DNA methylation alterations resulting in clinically relevant ER expression changes in breast cancers. Cancer Commun (Lond). 2024; :. doi: 10.1002/cac2.12640. PubMed PMID:39676516
7. Strepkos, D, Rempakos, A, Alexandrou, M, Mutlu, D, Carvalho, PEP, Bahbah, A, Kontantinis, S, Choi, JW, Gorgulu, S, Jaffer, FA et al.. Association of Proximal Vessel Tortuosity with Technical Success and Clinical Outcomes: Analysis From the Progress-CTO Registry. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1002/ccd.31338. PubMed PMID:39660868