Nina T. Holland  Adjunct Professor Children's Environmental Health Laboratory SPH Biorepository Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 733 University Hall (office) P. 510-642-8781 380 Marchant Hall (lab) UC Berkeley 6701 San Pablo Ave Oakland, CA 94608. Lab 510-643-5427 Fax 510-643-5426 E-mail: ninah@berkeley.edu Scientific interests:     Children's Environmental Health     Molecular Epidemiology     Human Cytogenetics     Biological Banking Recent Press Releases: The Daily Californian. 'Study analyzes ealry pesticides exposure', June 25, 2009 New York Times. 'Childhood: mold and pollen may affect asthma risk', March 2, 2009 ScienceDaily. 'Babies born in pollen and mold seasons have greater odds of deveolping asthma symptoms', Feb 25, 2009 medpagetoday.com. 'Folate levels not low in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease', Jan 27 2009 UCSF Press Release, 'Children with inflammatory bowel disease have surprisingly high folate levels, study finds', Jan 23, 2009 theheart.org, 'Could an orange a day keep BP down?', Jan. 6, 2009 KQED Radio Forum with Michael Krasny, Nov. 26, 2008 Healthhabits blog, 'Vitamin C Puts Out the Fire of Inflammation', Nov. 17, 2008 Pharmaceutical chemistry and Drug blog, 'Vitamin C Lowers Levels Of >Inflammation Biomarker Considered Predictor Of Heart Disease", Nov. 17, 2008

    Nina T. Holland, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor of Genetics and Toxicology, and a Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Laboratory and the School of Public Health Biorepository at the University of California, Berkeley.
    Her scientific interests include human genetics, molecular epidemiology and children’s environmental health. The main focus of her research in the last several years is on biomarker studies in children. Dr. Holland organized scientific sessions on Children’s Environmental Health at the International Conference on Mutagens in Human Populations in Brazil, 2003, at the EMS meeting in Miami, 2003, and at 9h ICEM meeting in San Francisco, 2005. In 2008 Dr. Holland chaired a symposium on global warming and environmental health at the EMS meeting in Puerto Rico. She has been an invited speaker at the numerous national and international meetings. Dr. Holland has been involved in several collaborative projects with the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, National Cancer Institute and University of Washington. She has published more than 100 papers and book chapters.
    Dr. Holland is a principal instructor on the graduate course "Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology", leads the EHS Masters and PhD Seminars, and contributed to several other courses at UC Berkeley. She has also taught and provided research assistance at the University of Hawaii, National Universities of Australia, Mexico and India. She is a member of the International Committee on Micronucleus Assay for Monitoring Human Populations (HUMN).
    Before coming to Berkeley in 1991, Dr. Holland (Titenko-Holland) worked at the National Center of Medical Genetics in Moscow, Russia. She received her PhD in Genetics in Kiev, Ukraine.

    Outside of the lab and classroom, Nina enjoys hiking, gardening, reading and music.