Dr Laura-Jayne Ellis BSc, MSc, PhD, MRSC

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Daphne Jackson Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Laura is an environmental toxicologist understanding the adverse health outcomes from exposure to emerging pollutants such as nanomaterials. Her research focuses on the biological mechanisms and adverse outcome pathways that are evoked during and post exposures. Her work also focuses on the maternal and offspring health during long term exposure and recovery to nanomaterials, as part of interventions to identify new and alternative approach methodologies for nanomaterial regulation. 

Laura has also worked across several interdisciplinary multi-partnered research project including EU Horizon Europe project  INSIGHT, EU collaborative FP7 and H2020 projects; Nanodefine, ACEnano NanoCommons, RiskGONE, NanoFASE, NanoMILE, NanoSolveIT . Laura has also worked collaboratively on NanoBEE and the Highlights Topics from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Qualifications

Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching

Laura has taught across the BSc Environmetal Science, MSc Health, Safety and Environment Management, MSc Environmental Health, and the MSc Public and Environmental Health Sciences Programmes.

Other activities

A member of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2024

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Chakraborty, S, Dhumal, P, Mikulska, I, Pham, S, Bradford, L-J, Menon, D, Misra, SK & Lynch, I 2025, 'Biotic Transformation of Abiotically Stable Nanoscale UiO-66 Metal–Organic Framework by Daphnia magna Results in Chronic Reproductive Toxicity', ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c16532

Serra, A, Zouraris, D, Schaffert, A, Torres Maia, M, Tsiros, P, Virmani, I, Di Lieto, E, Saarimäki, LA, Morikka, J, Riudavets-Puig, R, Varsou, D-D, Papavasileiou, KD, Kolokathis, PD, Mintis, DG, Tzoupis, H, Tsoumanis, A, Melagraki, G, Arvanitidis, A, Doganis, P, Minadakis, V, Savvas, G, Perello-Y-Bestard, A, Cucurachi, S, Buljan, M, Nikiforou, F, Karakoltzidis, A, Karakitsios, S, Sarigiannis, DA, Friedrichs, S, Seitz, C, Gutierrez, TN, Isigonis, P, Cambier, S, Marvuglia, A, Lindner, GG, Sergent, J-A, Gheorghe, LC, Bradford, L-JA, Park, S-G, Ha, SM, Gerelkhuu, Z, Yoon, TH, Petry, R, Martinez, DST, Winkler, DA, Wick, P, Exner, TE, Dondero, F, Serchi, T, Peijnenburg, W, Sarimveis, H, Paparella, M, Lynch, I, Afantitis, A & Greco, D 2025, 'INSIGHT: An integrated framework for safe and sustainable chemical and material assessment', Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, vol. 29, pp. 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.03.042

Zhang, P, Cao, M, Chetwynd, AJ, Faserl, K, Abdolahpur Monikh, F, Zhang, W, Ramautar, R, Ellis, LJA, Davoudi, HH, Reilly, K, Cai, R, Wheeler, KE, Martinez, DST, Guo, Z, Chen, C & Lynch, I 2024, 'Analysis of nanomaterial biocoronas in biological and environmental surroundings', Nature protocols, vol. 19, pp. 3000–3047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-024-01009-8

Maia, MT, Delite, FS, Silva, GHD, Bradford, L, Papadiamantis, AG, Paula, AJ, Lynch, I & Martinez, DST 2024, 'Combined toxicity of fluorescent silica nanoparticles with cadmium in Ceriodaphnia dubia: Interactive effects of natural organic matter and green algae feeding', Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 461, 132623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.132623

Varsou, D-D, Bradford, L, Afantitis, A, Melagraki, G & Lynch, I 2021, 'Ecotoxicological read-across models for predicting acute toxicity of freshly dispersed versus medium-aged NMs to Daphnia magna', Chemosphere, vol. 285, 131452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131452

Bradford, L, Kissane, S, Hoffman, E, Valsami-Jones, E, Brown, JB, Colbourne, JK & Lynch, I 2021, 'Multigenerational exposure to nano‐TiO2 induces ageing as a stress response mitigated by environmental interactions', Advanced NanoBiomed Research, vol. 1, no. 6, 2000083. https://doi.org/10.1002/anbr.202000083

Karatzas, P, Melagraki, G, Bradford, L, Lynch, I, Varsou, D-D, Afantitis, A, Tsoumanis, A, Doganis, P & Sarimveis, H 2020, 'Development of Deep Learning Models for Predicting the Effects of Exposure to Engineered Nanomaterials on Daphnia magna', Small, vol. 16, no. 36, e2001080. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202001080

Ellis, L-JA, Valsami-Jones, E & Lynch, I 2020, 'Exposure medium and particle ageing moderate the toxicological effects of nanomaterials to Daphnia magna over multiple generations: a case for standard test review?', Environmental Science: Nano, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1136-1149. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EN00049C

Billing, AM, Knudsen, KB, Chetwynd, AJ, Ellis, L-JA, Tang, SVY, Berthing, T, Wallin, H, Lynch, I, Vogel, U & Kjeldsen, F 2020, 'Fast and Robust Proteome Screening Platform Identifies Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation in the Lung in Response to Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles', ACS Nano, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 4096-4110. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b08818

Bradford, L, Kissane, S & Lynch, I 2020, 'Maternal Responses and Adaptive Changes to Environmental Stress via Chronic Nanomaterial Exposure: Differences in Inter and Transgenerational Interclonal Broods of Daphnia magna', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 22, no. 1, 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010015

Chapter

Papadiamantis, AG, Afantitis, A, Tsoumanis, A, Karatzas, P, Doganis, P, Varsou, DD, Sarimveis, H, Bradford, L, Valsami-Jones, E, Lynch, I & Melagraki, G 2022, Image Analysis and Deep Learning Web Services for Nano informatics. in K Roy (ed.), Chemometrics and Cheminformatics in Aquatic Toxicology. Wiley, pp. 547-564. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119681397.ch28

Comment/debate

Quevedo, AC, Bradford, L, Lynch, I & Valsami-Jones, E 2022, 'Correction: Quevedo et al. Mechanisms of silver nanoparticle uptake by embryonic zebrafish cells. Nanomaterials, 2021, 11, 2699', Nanomaterials, vol. 12, no. 2, 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12020225

Preprint

Chakraborty, S, Dhumal, P, Mikulska, I, Pham, S, Ellis (Bradford), L-J, Menon, D, Misra, SK & Lynch, I 2025 'Biotic Transformation of abiotically stable nanoscale UiO-66 Metal–Organic Frameworks by the waterflea Daphnia magna results in Chronic Reproductive Toxicity' ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-hrf4k

Review article

Reilly, K, Bradford, L, Davoudi, HH, Supian, S, Maia, MT, Silva, GH, Guo, Z, Martinez, DST & Lynch, I 2023, 'Daphnia as a model organism to probe biological responses to nanomaterials—from individual to population effects via adverse outcome pathways', Frontiers in toxicology, vol. 5, 1178482. https://doi.org/10.3389/ftox.2023.1178482

Martinez, DST, Bradford, L, Da Silva, GH, Petry, R, Medeiros, AMZ, Davoudi, HH, Papadiamantis, AG, Fazzio, A, Afantitis, A, Melagraki, G & Lynch, I 2022, 'Daphnia magna and mixture toxicity with nanomaterials – Current status and perspectives in data-driven risk prediction', Nano Today, vol. 43, 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2022.101430

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