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Caitlin G Howe, PhD

Title(s)
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor (University of Southern California)

Department(s)
Epidemiology

Education
Columbia University (PhD), 2016
Pomona College (BA), 2009

Programs
Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

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Contact Information

1 Medical Center Drive
Lebanon NH 03766

Email: Caitlin.G.Howe@Dartmouth.edu


Professional Interests

Dr. Howe’s research focuses on toxic metal exposures and their impacts on maternal and child health, with a particular interest in effects on early life growth and cardiometabolic health. Additional areas of interest include epigenetic mediators of toxicant exposures and metals toxicity in the context of nutritional status and complex environmental mixtures.

Grant Information

Prenatal Metal Mixtures, Fetal Growth, and the Role of MicroRNAs (NIEHS)

Biography

Professor Howe received her BA in 2009 from Pomona College, with a major in Biology and a minor in Spanish. After graduating, she worked at Fox Chase Cancer Center in an ovarian cancer research lab. She subsequently pursued a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. After receiving her PhD in 2016, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California. In 2020, she was appointed to the faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine.


Selected Publications

 

Invited Perspective: Studying Metal Impacts on Neurobehavior during the Critical but Challenging Window of Adolescence.
Howe CG, Laue HE
Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Feb;132(2):21303. doi: 10.1289/EHP14303. Epub 2024 Feb 16.
PMID: 38363633

Effect of parental adverse childhood experiences on intergenerational DNA methylation signatures from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and buccal mucosa.
Mohazzab-Hosseinian S, Garcia E, Wiemels J, Marconett C, Corona K, Howe CG, Foley H, Farzan SF, Bastain TM, Breton CV
Transl Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 12;14(1):89. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-02747-9. Epub 2024 Feb 12.
PMID: 38342906

Maternal-Infant Factors in Relation to Extracellular Vesicle and Particle miRNA in Prenatal Plasma and in Postpartum Human Milk.
Muse ME, Armstrong DA, Hoen AG, Gilbert-Diamond D, Gui J, Palys TJ, Kolling FW, Christensen BC, Karagas MR, Howe CG
Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jan 26;25(3) doi: 10.3390/ijms25031538. Epub 2024 Jan 26.
PMID: 38338815

Periconceptional and Prenatal Exposure to Metals and Extracellular Vesicle and Particle miRNAs in Human Milk: A Pilot Study.
Howe CG, Armstrong DA, Muse ME, Gilbert-Diamond D, Gui J, Hoen AG, Palys TJ, Barnaby RL, Stanton BA, Jackson BP, Christensen BC, Karagas MR
Expo Health. 2023 Dec;15(4):731-743. doi: 10.1007/s12403-022-00520-1. Epub 2022 Nov 3.
PMID: 38074282

Maternal educational attainment in pregnancy and epigenome-wide DNA methylation changes in the offspring from birth until adolescence.
Choudhary P, Monasso GS, Karhunen V, Ronkainen J, Mancano G, Howe CG, Niu Z, Zeng X, Guan W, Dou J, Feinberg JI, Mordaunt C, Pesce G, Baiz N, Alfano R, Martens DS, Wang C, Isaevska E, Keikkala E, Mustaniemi S, Thio CHL, Fraszczyk E, Tobi EW, Starling AP, Cosin-Tomas M, Urquiza J, Roder S, Hoang TT, Page C, Jima DD, House JS, Maguire RL, Ott R, Pawlow X, Sirignano L, Zillich L, Malmberg A, Rauschert S, Melton P, Gong T, Karlsson R, Fore R, Perng W, Laubach ZM, Czamara D, Sharp G, Breton CV, Schisterman E, Yeung E, Mumford SL, Fallin MD, LaSalle JM, Schmidt RJ, Bakulski KM, Annesi-Maesano I, Heude B, Nawrot TS, Plusquin M, Ghantous A, Herceg Z, Nistico L, Vafeiadi M, Kogevinas M, Vaarasmaki M, Kajantie E, Snieder H, Corpeleijn E, Steegers-Theunissen RPM, Yang IV, Dabelea D, Fossati S, Zenclussen AC, Herberth G, Magnus M, Haberg SE, London SJ, Munthe-Kaas MC, Murphy SK, Hoyo C, Ziegler AG, Hummel S, Witt SH, Streit F, Frank J, Raikkonen K, Lahti J, Huang RC, Almqvist C, Hivert MF, Jaddoe VWV, Jarvelin MR, Kantomaa M, Felix JF, Sebert S
Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Dec 5; doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-02331-5. Epub 2023 Dec 5.
PMID: 38052982

Urinary fluoride levels and metal co-exposures among pregnant women in Los Angeles, California.
Malin AJ, Hu H, Martinez-Mier EA, Eckel SP, Farzan SF, Howe CG, Funk W, Meeker JD, Habre R, Bastain TM, Breton CV
Environ Health. 2023 Oct 26;22(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s12940-023-01026-2. Epub 2023 Oct 26.
PMID: 37880740

Prenatal exposures to organophosphate ester metabolite mixtures and children's neurobehavioral outcomes in the MADRES pregnancy cohort.
Hernandez-Castro I, Eckel SP, Howe CG, Niu Z, Kannan K, Robinson M, Foley HB, Yang T, Vigil MJ, Chen X, Grubbs B, Lerner D, Lurvey N, Al-Marayati L, Habre R, Dunton GF, Farzan SF, Aung MT, Breton CV, Bastain TM
Environ Health. 2023 Sep 22;22(1):66. doi: 10.1186/s12940-023-01017-3. Epub 2023 Sep 22.
PMID: 37737180

Associations between area-level arsenic exposure and adverse birth outcomes: An Echo-wide cohort analysis.
Lewis JV, Knapp EA, Bakre S, Dickerson AS, Bastain TM, Bendixsen C, Bennett DH, Camargo CA, Cassidy-Bushrow AE, Colicino E, D'Sa V, Dabelea D, Deoni S, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Fry RC, Hartert T, Howe CG, Kahn LG, Karagas MR, Ma TF, Koinis-Mitchell D, MacKenzie D, Maldonado LE, Merced-Nieves FM, Neiderhiser JM, Nigra AE, Niu Z, Nozadi SS, Rivera-Nuñez Z, O'Connor TG, Osmundson S, Padula AM, Peterson AK, Sherris AR, Starling A, Straughen JK, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Kress AM
Environ Res. 2023 Nov 1;236(Pt 2):116772. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116772. Epub 2023 Jul 28.
PMID: 37517496

A State-of-the-Science Review on Metal Biomarkers.
Martinez-Morata I, Sobel M, Tellez-Plaza M, Navas-Acien A, Howe CG, Sanchez TR
Curr Environ Health Rep. 2023 Sep;10(3):215-249. doi: 10.1007/s40572-023-00402-x. Epub 2023 Jun 20.
PMID: 37337116

Metals and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances mixtures and birth outcomes in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study: Beyond single-class mixture approaches.
Yim G, McGee G, Gallagher L, Baker E, Jackson BP, Calafat AM, Botelho JC, Gilbert-Diamond D, Karagas MR, Romano ME, Howe CG
Chemosphere. 2023 Jul;329:138644. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138644. Epub 2023 Apr 7.
PMID: 37031836

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