Sarina Abrishamcar is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her B.S. in Pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her MPH in Epidemiology with a certificate in Genetic and Molecular epidemiology from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. Broadly, her research interests are in exposomics and genomics. Specifically, she is interested in how various perinatal, environmental, and psychosocial exposures affect health outcomes (such as neurodevelopment) in children and across the life course through epigenetic and other omics mechanisms.
Areas of Interest
- Environmental Health
- Epigenetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health
- Social Determinants of Health
Education
- Bachelor of Science 2020, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Master of Public Health 2022, Emory University
Affiliations & Activities
Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research
Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society for Public Health, Phi Chapter
Publications
- Dakotah Feil, Sarina Abrishamcar, Grace M Christensen, Aneesa Vanker, Nastassja Koen, Anna Kilanowski, Nadia Hoffman, Catherine J Wedderburn, Kirsten A Donald, Michael S Kobor, Heather J Zar, Dan J Stein, Anke Hüls, 2023, DNA methylation as a potential mediator of the association between indoor air pollution and neurodevelopmental delay in a South African birth cohort, Clinical Epigenetics, 15, 1-14
- Anna Kilanowski, Simon Kebede Merid, Sarina Abrishamcar, Dakotah Feil, Elisabeth Thiering, Melanie Waldenberger, Erik Melén, Annette Peters, Marie Standl, Anke Hüls, 2022, DNA methylation and aeroallergen sensitization: The chicken or the egg?, Clinical Epigenetics, 14, 114
- Jolien Rijlaarsdam, Marta Cosin-Tomas, Laura Schellhas, Sarina Abrishamcar, Anni Malmberg, Alexander Neumann, Janine F Felix, Jordi Sunyer, Kristine B Gutzkow, Regina Grazuleviciene, John Wright, Mariza Kampouri, Heather J Zar, Dan J Stein, Kati Heinonen, Katri Räikkönen, Jari Lahti, Anke Huels, Doretta Caramaschi, Silvia Alemany, Charlotte AM Cecil, 2022, DNA methylation and general psychopathology in childhood: an epigenome-wide meta-analysis from the PACE consortium, Molecular Psychiatry, 28, 1128-1136
- Sarina Abrishamcar, Junyu Chen, Dakotah Feil, Anna Kilanowski, Nastassja Koen, Aneesa Vanker, Catherine J Wedderburn, Kirsten A Donald, Heather J Zar, Dan J Stein, Anke Hüls, 2022, DNA methylation as a potential mediator of the association between prenatal tobacco and alcohol exposure and child neurodevelopment in a South African birth cohort, Translational Psychiatry, 12, 418