Peer-reviewed Articles

  1. Perez-Benavides J, Rowland S, Shearston AJ, Darby J, Nunez Y, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Methods for evaluating environmental health impacts at different stages of the policy process in cities. Current Environmental Health Reports. 2022 April. Link

  2. Nunez Y, Boehme AK, Li M, Goldsmith JA, Donkelaar A, Weisskopf MG, Re DB, Martin RV, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. PM2.5 composition and disease aggravation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: an analysis of long-term exposure to components of fine particulate matter in New York State. Environmental Research. 2022 April. Link

  3. Shearston JA, Martinez ME, Nunez Y, Hilpert M. Social-distancing fatigue: Evidence from real-time crowd-sourced traffic data. Science of the Total Environment. 2021 Oct. Link

  4. Nunez Y, Boehme AK, Li M, Goldsmith JA, Weisskopf MG, Re DB, Martin RV, Navas-Acien A, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Parkinson’s disease aggravation in association with fine particle components in New York State. Environmental Research. 2021 Oct. Link

  5. Nunez Y, Boehme AK, Weisskopf MG, Re DB, Martin RV, Navas-Acien A, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Fine Particle Exposure and Clinical Aggravation in Neurodegenerative Diseases in New York State. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2021 Feb. Link

  6. Nunez Y, Gibson AE, Gennings C, Tanner EM, Goldsmith JA, Coull AB, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Good Practices for Applied Statistical Learning in Epidemiology. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2021 Jan. Link | R code

  7. Gibson AE*, Nunez Y*, Abuawad A, Zota RA, Renzetti S, Devick LK, Gennings C, Goldsmith JA, Coull AB, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. An Overview of Methods to Address Distinct Research Questions on Environmental Mixtures: An Application to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Leukocyte Telomere Length. Environmental Health. 2019 Aug; 18(1):76. Link | R code | Article selected as NIEHS Extramural Paper of the Month *Equal Contribution

  8. Merwin JS, Obis T, Nunez Y, Re BD. Organophosphate neurotoxicity to the voluntary motor system on the trail of environment-caused amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: the known, the misknown, and the unknown. Archives of Toxicology. 2017 Jan; 91(8):2939-2952. Link

  9. Marchetto MC, Belinson H, Tian Y, Freitas BC, Fu C, Vadodaria K, Beltrao-Braga P, Trujillo CA, Mendes APD, Padmanabhan K, Nunez Y, Ou J, Ghosh H, Wright R, Brennand K, Pierce K, Eichenfield L, Pramparo T, Eyler L, Barnes CC, Courchesne E, Geschwind DH, Gage FH, Wynshaw-Boris A, Muotri AR. Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals. Molecular Psychiatry –Nature. 2017 Jun; 22(6):820-835. Link

  10. Griesi-Oliveira K, Acab A, Gupta RA, Sunaga YD, Chailangkarn T, Nicol X, Nunez Y, Walker FM, Murdoch DJ, Sanders JS, Fernandez VT, Ji W, Lifton PR, Vadasz E, Dietrich A, Pradhan D, Song H, Ming G, Guoe X, Gabriel Haddad G, Marchetto, CM, Spitzer N, Passos-Bueno MR, State WM, and Muotri RA. Modeling non-syndromic autism and the impact of TRPC6 disruption in human neurons. Molecular Psychiatry –Nature. 2015 Nov; 20(11): 1350-65. Link

Work in Progress

  1. Nunez Y, Perez-Benavides J, Daouda M, Goldsmith J, Casey J, Henneman L, Randall M, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Inequities in air pollution exposure across the United States: a 40-years assessment of emission trends. Manuscript in preparation

  2. Nunez Y, Balilian A, Parks MR, Hansen J, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Ketzel M, Khan J, Vermeulen R, Peters S, Re BD, Goldsmith J, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Critical windows of exposures in the association between PM2.5 and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a case-control study in Denmark. Under Review

  3. Parks MR, Nunez Y, Balilian A, , Hansen J, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Ketzel M, Khan J, Vermeulen R, Peters S, Re BD, aGoldsmith J, and Kioumourtzoglou M-A. Multi-air pollutant exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis in Denmark. Under Review

  4. Tao R, Chillrud, LG, Nunez Y, Rowland ST, Boehme AE, Yan J, Goldsmith J, Wright J, & Kioumourtzglou, M-A. Applying Principal Component Pursuit to investigate the association between source-specific fine particulate matter and myocardial infarction hospitalizations in New York City. Under Review

  5. Gibson EA, Zhang J, Yan J, Chillrud L, Perez-Benavides J, Nunez Y, Herbstman JB, Goldsmith J, Wright J, & Kioumourtzglou, M-A. Principal Component Pursuit for Pattern Identification in Environmental Mixtures Under Review

Selected Presentations

  1. Trends in air pollution emissions across the United States over the last 40 years: differences by race, ethnicity, and economic status. Oral presentation at: Environmental Health Sciences dept. Seminar, Columbia University. 2022 Feb. 7

  2. The effect of air pollution on aggravation of neurodegenerative diseases: an analysis of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and its components. Oral presentation at: Environmental Health Sciences dept. Seminar, Columbia University. 2020 September 9. PDF

  3. Good Practices for Applied Statistical Learning in Epidemiology. Oral presentation at: Powering Research Through Innovative Methods for Mixtures in Epidemiology (PRIME) Program Meeting, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 2020 October 15.

  4. An Overview of Methods to Address Distinct Research Questions on Environmental Mixtures: An Application to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Leukocyte Telomere Length. Oral presentation at: International Society of Enviromental Epidemiology Annual Meeting. 2019 August 25-28; Utrech, Netherlands. PDF

  5. Unraveling Gene-Environment Interactions and Window(s) of Exposure in TDP-43-ALS. Oral presentation at: The University of Milan, Dept. of Neurology. 2017 Aug.; Milan, Italy.

  6. Neurotoxicology in the Field of Environmental Health Sciences. Oral presentation at: Summer Public Health Scholars Program, Columbia University. 2016 May; New York, NY, USA.