Jaclyn E. Cañas-Carrell, Ph.D.

Classes:

ENTX 6305 Professional Development and Editorial Training in Environmental Toxicology

ENTX 6351 Analytical Toxicology

ENTX 6251 Analytical Toxicology Laboratory

ENTX 6445 Chemical Sources and Fate in the Environment

Bio:

Texas Tech Faculty Since 2006

Dr. Cañas-Carrell received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2012 and was promoted to Professor in 2018. Dr. Cañas-Carrell received her B.S. in Zoology in 2001 and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology in 2005 from Texas Tech University. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Western Ecology Division in Corvallis, Oregon prior to joining the TTU faculty.  Since fall 2021, she has been serving as the Department Chair.

Her research interests are focused on emerging contaminants and include determining the fate of chemicals in the environment. She is particularly interested in determining the fate and effects of emerging contaminants, such manufactured nanomaterials, microplastics, and nanoplastics, in terrestrial and aquatic systems.  She has published over 48 peer-reviewed journal articles (see below for a recent selection).

Dr. Cañas-Carrell has also been heavily involved in STEM Education. Since 2008, she has been the Director of the Plains Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (funded by the National Institutes of Health) which supports diverse, community college students that are interested in science.  She was also instrumental in securing the first NSF funded LSAMP Alliance at TTU. Based on her scholarly accomplishments, in 2019 Dr. Cañas-Carrell was awarded a President’s Excellence in Research Professorship at Texas Tech University.

At Texas Tech University, Dr. Cañas-Carrell has received the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Research Award in 2013. She also received the President’s Excellence in Diversity & Equity Award twice (2009 and 2013) for her efforts to promote and support diversity at TTU. She received the Department’s Exceptional Faculty Award in 2021 and the Outstanding Women Leader (OWL) Award from the West Texas Association for Women in STEAM in 2020. At the national level, she received the 2018 Outstanding College/University Mentor from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.

Selected Publications:

G McConnel, D. Cuellar, KD Arole, SS Dasari, MJ Green, JE Cañas-Carrell, and CL Brelsfoard. 2024. Characterization of microplastics found in mosquito oviposition habitats. Journal of Vector Ecology, 50(1):39-47. https://doi.org/10.52707/1081-1710-50.1-39.

DE Huff, A Cantu, SA Kane, LS Fernandez, JE Cañas-Carrell, NJ Hall, and PA Prada-Tiedemann. 2024. Odor dilution assessment for explosive delivery. Analytica, 5: 402-413. https://doi.org/10.3390/analytica5030025.  

G McConnel, ZA Kasuske, C Mazariegos-Ortíz, SR Muñoz, and JE Cañas-Carrell. 2024 A systems perspective of terrestrial, aquatic, and human health impacts of non-polystyrene-based nanoplastics. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 39: 100557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2024.100557.

G McConnel, J Lawson, JE Cañas-Carrell, and CL Brelsfoard. 2024. The effects of nano- and micro plastic ingestion on the survivorship and reproduction of Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus (Skuse). Environmental Entomology, 53(4): 594-603. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvae038

Edwards, CC, G McConnel, D Ramos, Y Gurrola-Mares, K Dhondiram Arole, MJ Green, JE Cañas-Carrell, CL Brelsfoard. 2023. Microplastic ingestion perturbs the microbiome of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Aedes aegypti. Journal of Medical Entomology, 60(5): 884-898. https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjad097.

Elizalde-Velázquez A, J Crago, Micah J. Green, X Zhao, JE Cañas-Carrell. 2020. In vivo Effects on the Innate Immune Function of Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas), after ingestion and intraperitoneal injection of Polystyrene Nanoplastics. Science of the Total Environment. 735: 139461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139461.

Elizalde-Velazquez, A, TA Anderson, MJ Green, X Zhao, and JE Cañas-Carrell. 2020. Sorption of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to microplastics under freshwater, seawater, and acidified water conditions. Science of the Total Environment, 715: 136974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136974.

Elizalde-Velazquez, A, AM Carcano, J Crago, MJ Green, SA Shah, and JE Cañas-Carrell. 2020. Translocation, trophic transfer, accumulation and depuration of polystyrene microplastics in Daphnia magna and Pimephales promelas. Environmental Pollution, 259: 113937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.113937.