Faculty Member

Elyse Caron-Beaudoin

Email Address(es): elyse.caronbeaudoin(at)utoronto.ca
Website(s): From Bench to Communities Lab
Division(s)/Institute(s): Occupational & Environmental Health Division
Position: Assistant Professor
Appointment Status: Non budgtry Crss
Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?: Yes

Research Interests

Toxicology

Molecular biology

Public and environmental health

Community-based research

Exposure assessment and biomonitoring

Presentation:

Élyse Caron-Beaudoin is an Assistant Professor in environmental health at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Through engaged scholarship, Dr. Caron-Beaudoin’s lab develops projects in partnership with communities living in a changing environment to assess the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on health and well-being. To investigate these associations, Dr. Caron-Beaudoin uses an ecosystem approach combining information from multiple levels of biological organization.

Dr. Caron-Beaudoin holds a PhD in biology with a specialization in toxicology from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Armand-Frappier Institute in Laval, Quebec. From 2018 to 2020, she was a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Université de Montreal. During her fellowship, Dr. Caron-Beaudoin investigated the associations between density and proximity to hydraulic fracturing wells and birth outcomes in Northeastern British Columbia.

She is currently investigating gestational exposure to environmental contaminants associated with hydraulic fracturing and their endocrine disrupting potential. Furthermore, she is a collaborator and co-investigator on several other research projects in environmental and Indigenous health, including in the Arctic.

Current affiliations:

Assistant Professor in environmental health, Department of Health and Society, University of Toronto Scarborough

Graduate appointment, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Caron-Beaudoin, É., Ayotte, P., Blanchette, C., Muckle, G., Avard, E., Ricard, S., & Lemire, M. (2020). Perfluoroalkyl acids in pregnant women from Nunavik (Quebec, Canada): Trends in exposure and associations with country foods consumption. Environment International, 145, 106169.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Whitworth, K. W., Bosson-Rieutort, D., Wendling, G., Liu, S., & Verner, M. A. (2020). Density and proximity to hydraulic fracturing wells and birth outcomes in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 1-9.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Bouchard, M., Wendling, G., Barroso, A., Bouchard, M. F., Ayotte, P., … & Verner, M. A. (2019). Urinary and hair concentrations of trace metals in pregnant women from Northeastern British Columbia, Canada: a pilot study. Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology, 29(5), 613-623.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Ayotte, P., Sidi, E. A. L., of Nutashkuan, C. T. K., McHugh, N. G. L., & Lemire, M. (2019). Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and associations with thyroid parameters in First Nation children and youth from Quebec. Environment international, 128, 13-23.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., & Armstrong, C. G. (2019). Biomonitoring and ethnobiology: Approaches to fill gaps in indigenous public and environmental health. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(1), 50-64.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Viau, R., & Sanderson, J. T. (2018). Effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on promoter-specific aromatase (CYP19) expression in Hs578t breast cancer cells and the role of the VEGF pathway. Environmental health perspectives, 126(4), 047014.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Valter, N., Chevrier, J., Ayotte, P., Frohlich, K., & Verner, M. A. (2018). Gestational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada: a pilot study. Environment International, 110, 131-138.
Caron-Beaudoin, E., Viau, R., Hudon-Thibeault, A. A., Vaillancourt, C., & Sanderson, J. T. (2017). The use of a unique co-culture model of fetoplacental steroidogenesis as a screening tool for endocrine disruptors: The effects of neonicotinoids on aromatase activity and hormone production. Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 332, 15-24.
Caron-Beaudoin, É., Denison, M. S., & Sanderson, J. T. (2016). Effects of neonicotinoids on promoter-specific expression and activity of aromatase (CYP19) in human adrenocortical carcinoma (H295R) and primary umbilical vein endothelial (HUVEC) cells. Toxicological Sciences, 149(1), 134-144.

Selected Grants:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Gestational exposure to chemicals related to hydraulic fracturing and their endocrine disrupting potential in Northeastern British Columbia (2019-2023, co-Principal Investigator)

The Lloyd Jones Collins Foundation, Is there an association between exposure to hydraulic fracturing (HF) and exacerbations of asthma in Northeastern British Columbia (BC)? (2020-2021, co-Investigator)

Northern Contaminants Program, Exposure to food chain contaminants in Nunavik : biomonitoring in adult and youth cohorts of the Qanuilirpitaa survey (Year 3) (2019-2020, co-Investigator)