Dan Schmehl  

Dan Schmehl is a Principal Scientist and pollinator specialist within our North American Environmental Effects and Risk Assessment team, based in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA. He has a BS degree in Biology from Messiah College (2007) and a PhD in Entomology from Penn State University (2013). His primary responsibilities include pesticide safety evaluations and support of our Bayer bee health research initiatives. Dan’s expertise and background includes honey bee biology, environmental toxicology and risk assessment, and Varroa management.

Twitter: @DanielRSchmehl

1.18.15:Increasing Adult Honey Bee Longevity in Laboratory Bioassays for Microbial Pesticide Evaluation. Daniel Schmehl, Lisa Ortego, Maryam Sultan, Kazi Rahman, Richard Sammons, Kim Huntzinger

Audrey Bone 

Audrey Bone is an environmental toxicologist and risk assessor with the North American Environmental Effects and Risk Assessment team. She received a B.S. in chemistry from Clemson University in 2009 and a Ph.D. in environmental toxicology from Duke University in 2015. She also spent two years as a postdoctoral toxicologist at the USEPA National Center for Computational Toxicology. Her areas of expertise include aquatic ecotoxicology, terrestrial vertebrate ecotoxicology, endocrine disruption, and new approach methods (NAMs).

1.03.02: A Modified Amphibian Metamorphosis Assay (MAMA) Design: The Experimental Advantages of Time-To-Stage Design. Audry Bone, Laurent Lagadic, Lisa Ortego, Amber Tompsett-Higley

Kazi Rahman 

Kazi Rahman is an exposure modeler at Bayer North America environmental safety team. His expertise includes hydrological modeling, GIS and statistical modeling. He has a PhD in metal fate and transport modeling from the university of Geneva, Switzerland and postdoc from Stanford University, USA. At Bayer he uses various models in describing movement of agricultural chemicals in soil, water and air. He also involved in validation of models, development of procedures for applying models for regulatory assessments. 

LinkedIn

4.03.07: A Spatiotemporal Explicit Model for Estimating Environmental Exposure and Effects of Agrochemicals at the Landscape Level for U.S. Ecological Risk Assessments. Kazi Rahman, Sascha Bub (Univ Koblez-Landau), Ismael Rodea-Palomares, Jane Tang, Thorsten Schad

 Ismael Rodea-Palomares 

Ismael Rodea-Palomares is a is an environmental toxicologist and risk assessor with the North American Environmental Effects and Risk Assessment team, based in Chesterfield, Missouri, USA. He has a BS degree in Environmental Sciences (2006) and a PhD in in Molecular Biosciences (2011) both by the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Biocomplexity Engineering Group (Dr. Rafael Muñoz-Carpena’s Lab) at the University of Florida (2015 – 2018). His primary responsibilities include pesticide safety evaluations and risk assessments. Ismael’s expertise and background includes aquatic systems, terrestrial and aquatic plants, environmental toxicology and risk assessment, chemical mixtures risk assessment, molecular biology, environmental and ecological modelling and machine learning. 

ResearchGate 

5.09.09: What Aquatic Biomonitoring Data Can Tell Us about the Sustainability of Modern Corn and Soybean Agriculture in the US?: Iowa as a Case Study. Ismael Rodea-Palomares, Sean McGee, Jessica Chen, Laura McConnell
Live Discussion Thurs 1:00PM CST

5.10.04: Chemical Mixtures Risk Assessment: Are There (Still) Elephants in the Room?  Ismael Rodea-Palomares, Steve Levine
Live Discussion Thurs 1:00PM CST

5.20.50: Plant Variability Project 2.0: What to Do If an ER05 Cannot Be Reliably Estimated? Ismael Rodea-Palomares, Daniel Edwards, Jane Stavely

5.10.12: Environmental Chemical Mixtures, from Exposure to Risk: What Can We Learn from Large Scale Chemical Monitoring and Chemical Mixtures ERA? Ismael Rodea-Palomares, Arnd Weyers
Live Discussion Thurs 1:00PM CS

Andre Gergs

Andre Gergs is an Effect Modelling Expert based in Monheim, Germany. Andre is a biologist and social pedagogue by training. His primary field of expertise is in ecology, toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic modelling as well as population modelling. 

5.06.05: Impacts of Endocrine Disruptors on Fish Growth and Reproduction in Dynamic Energy Budget (DEBtox) Framework. Erik B. Muller (Univ CA Santa Barbara), Andre Gergs, Laurent Lagadic, Thomas G. Preuss

5.06.02: Toxicokinetic-Toxicodynamic Modelling Explains the Interplay between Feeding Level and Chronic Sensitivity. Andre Gergs, Thomas G. Preuss

Vanessa Roeben

Vanessa Roeben is an Effects Modeling Expert based in Monheim Germany. 

5.20.10: FORSEE – A Spatial and Temporal Explicit TKTD Model for Earthworms. Vanessa Roeben

Laura McConnell

Laura McConnell is a University and Scientific Society Engagement Lead in the Regulatory Scientific Affairs Team in St. Louis, Missouri. Laura is an environmental and analytical chemist, formerly a USDA-ARS research scientist and long-time SETAC member. 

Twitter: @LauraLeeMc 

7.02.08:  Walking the Walk of Transparency and Open Science: Demonstrating the Safety of Pesticides and GMOs. Laura McConnell
Live Discussion Mon 1:00 PM CST

Cami Ryan

In her position with Regulatory Scientific Affairs (RSA) at Bayer Crop Science, Cami Ryan is responsible for strengthening relationships and engaging with social, behavioral, and political scientists. Cami leverages an expanding scientific network in North America and around the world to more closely examine and understand policy, regulations, consumer behavior, and public acceptance of agricultural innovations. Cami is also a Professional Affiliate with the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a member of the Scientific Industry Advisory Committee (SIAC) for Genome Canada. 

Twitter: @CamiDRyan or Website: https://camiryan.com/

7.02.10:  Disentangling Disinformation in the Attention Economy: Science and Social Media. Camille Ryan
 

Anja Gladbach

Anja Gladbach is an Environmental Safety Manager and based in Monheim, Germany. Her expertise includes biology, ecology and regulatory sciences. She has a PhD in Biology and Ecology from the University of Munich (Germany) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology. At Bayer her main responsibility is the environmental safety evaluation of crop protection products integrating exposure and effect aspects. Besides that, she is engaged in the development of tutorials for Bayers’ transparency website and the communication around OpenScience.

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7.04.06:  Open Science in Environmental Risk Assessments for Crop Protection Products: A Company's Perspective on Contributions and Expectations. Anja Gladbach, Charlotte Morr
Live Discussion Thurs 2:00PM CST