Lisa L Satterwhite

Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Molecular epidemiology of environmental exposures

Pesticide exposure and Parkinson’s disease

Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms and ALS

Predicting risk for pancreatic cancer

Cell and developmental biology

Documentary photography 

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Contact Information

  • Office Location: CIEMAS 2455, Durham, NC 27708
  • Email Address: lisa.satterwhite@duke.edu
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Education

  • Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1992

Research Interests

Satterwhite studies the genomics and epigenetics of environmental exposures in populations with clear health disparity. Her group identified the first genomic signature for pesticide exposure and is developing simple blood tests to diagnose early stage asymptomatic neurodegenerative disease and cancer, including Parkinson's disease and pancreatic cancer.

Courses Taught

  • ENVIRON 391: Independent Study

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Giroux, Nicholas S., Shengli Ding, Micah T. McClain, Thomas W. Burke, Elizabeth Petzold, Hong A. Chung, Grecia O. Rivera, et al. “Author Correction: Differential chromatin accessibility in peripheral blood mononuclear cells underlies COVID-19 disease severity prior to seroconversion.” Sci Rep 13, no. 1 (April 20, 2023): 6462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33323-8.
  • Giroux, Nicholas S., Shengli Ding, Micah T. McClain, Thomas W. Burke, Elizabeth Petzold, Hong A. Chung, Grecia O. Rivera, et al. “Differential chromatin accessibility in peripheral blood mononuclear cells underlies COVID-19 disease severity prior to seroconversion.” Sci Rep 12, no. 1 (July 9, 2022): 11714. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15668-8.
  • Roitshtain, Darina, Lauren Wolbromsky, Evgeny Bal, Hayit Greenspan, Lisa L. Satterwhite, and Natan T. Shaked. “Quantitative phase microscopy spatial signatures of cancer cells.” Cytometry. Part A : The Journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology 91, no. 5 (May 2017): 482–93. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.23100.
  • Fernandez, Cristina E., Izundu C. Obi-onuoha, Charles S. Wallace, Lisa L. Satterwhite, George A. Truskey, and William M. Reichert. “Late-outgrowth endothelial progenitors from patients with coronary artery disease: endothelialization of confluent stromal cell layers.” Acta Biomaterialia 10, no. 2 (February 2014): 893–900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2013.10.004.
  • Shaked, N. T., Z. Zalevsky, and L. L. Satterwhite. “Biomedical Optical Phase Microscopy and Nanoscopy.” Biomedical Optical Phase Microscopy and Nanoscopy, August 26, 2013.