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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. Rempakos, A, Alexandrou, M, Mutlu, D, Choi, JW, Poommipanit, P, Khatri, JJ, Young, L, Jefferson, B, Gorgulu, S, Jaffer, FA et al.. Validation of the BCIS CHIP Score in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2024; :. doi: 10.1002/ccd.31045. PubMed PMID:38629740
2. Young, L, Ferrara, F, Kelly, L, Martin, T, Thompson-Iritani, S, LaFollette, MR. Professional quality of life in animal research personnel is linked to retention & job satisfaction: A mixed-methods cross-sectional survey on compassion fatigue in the USA. PLoS One. 2024;19 (4):e0298744. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298744. PubMed PMID:38626016 PubMed Central PMC11020707
3. Devlin, LA, Hu, Z, Merhar, SL, Ounpraseuth, ST, Simon, AE, Lee, JY, Das, A, Crawford, MM, Greenberg, RG, Smith, PB et al.. Influence of Eat, Sleep, and Console on Infants Pharmacologically Treated for Opioid Withdrawal: A Post Hoc Subgroup Analysis of the ESC-NOW Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2024; :. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0544. PubMed PMID:38619854 PubMed Central PMC11019446
4. Fouda, AEA, Lindblom, V, Southworth, SH, Doumy, G, Ho, PJ, Young, L, Cheng, L, Sorensen, SL. Influence of Selective Carbon 1s Excitation on Auger-Meitner Decay in the ESCA Molecule. J Phys Chem Lett. 2024; :4286-4293. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03611. PubMed PMID:38608168
5. Chaudhry, FN, Michki, NS, Shirmer, DL, Mcgrath-Morrow, S, Young, LR, Frank, DB, Zepp, JA. Dynamic Hippo pathway activity underlies mesenchymal differentiation during lung alveolar morphogenesis. Development. 2024; :. doi: 10.1242/dev.202430. PubMed PMID:38602485
6. Tang, W, Luan, Y, Yuan, Q, Li, A, Chen, S, Menacherry, S, Young, L, Wu, D. LDL receptor-related protein 5 selectively transports unesterified polyunsaturated fatty acids to intracellular compartments. Nat Commun. 2024;15 (1):3068. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47262-z. PubMed PMID:38594269 PubMed Central PMC11004178
7. Trivedi, PJ, Arndtz, K, Abbas, N, Telford, A, Young, L, Banerjee, R, Eddowes, P, Jhaveri, KS, Hirschfield, GM. Quantitative MRCP and metrics of bile duct disease over time in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: A prospective study. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2024; :. doi: 10.1111/apt.17944. PubMed PMID:38571284