Superfund Research Program

Ilona Jaspers

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
116 Manning Drive
CB#7310
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7142
Phone: 919-966-8657
Email: ilona_jaspers@med.unc.edu

Projects

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC) (2020-2025)

Publications

2023

• Hsiao Y, Matulewicz RS, Sherman SE, Jaspers I, Weitzman ML, Gordon T, Liu C, Yang Y, Lu K, Bjurlin MA. 2023. Untargeted metabolomics to characterize the urinary chemical landscape of e-cigarette users. Chem Res Toxicol 36(4):630-642. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00346 PMID:36912507 PMCID:PMC10371198

2022

• Carberry C, Koval L, Payton A, Hartwell HJ, Kim YH, Smith GJ, Reif DM, Jaspers I, Gilmour MI, Rager JE. 2022. Wildfires and extracellular vesicles: Exosomal MicroRNAs as mediators of cross-tissue cardiopulmonary responses to biomass smoke. Environ Int 167:doi:10.1016/j.envint.2022.107419 PMID:35863239 PMCID:PMC9389917
• Koval L, Carberry C, Kim YH, McDermott E, Hartwell HJ, Jaspers I, Gilmour MI, Rager JE. 2022. Wildfire variable toxicity: identifying biomass smoke exposure groupings through transcriptomic similarity scoring. Environ Sci Technol 56(23):17131-17142. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c06043 PMID:36399130
• Payton A, Perryman AN, Hoffman JR, Avula V, Wells H, Robinette C, Alexis N, Jaspers I, Rager JE, Rebuli ME. 2022. Cytokine signature clusters as a tool to compare changes associated with tobacco product use in upper and lower airway samples. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 322(5):L722-L736. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00299.2021 PMID:35318855 PMCID:PMC9054348
• Roell K, Koval L, Boyles R, Patlewicz G, Ring C, Rider CV, Ward-Caviness C, Reif DM, Jaspers I, Fry RC, Rager JE. 2022. Development of the InTelligence and Machine LEarning (TAME) Toolkit for introductory data science, chemical-biological analyses, predictive modeling, and database mining for environmental health research. Front Toxicol 4:doi:10.3389/ftox.2022.893924 PMID:35812168 PMCID:PMC9257219

2021

• Escobar YH, Morrison CB, Chen Y, Hickman E, Love CA, Rebuli ME, Surratt JD, Ehre C, Jaspers I. 2021. Differential responses to e-cig generated aerosols from humectants and different forms of nicotine in epithelial cells from non-smokers and smokers. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 320:L1064-L1073. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00525.2020 PMID:33825493 PMCID:PMC8285624
• Rager JE, Clark J, Eaves LA, Avula V, Niehoff NM, Kim YH, Jaspers I, Gilmour MI. 2021. Mixtures modeling identifies chemical inducers versus repressors of toxicity associated with wildfire smoke. Sci Total Environ 775:145749. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145759 PMID:33611182 PMCID:PMC8243846
• Rebuli ME, Brocke SA, Jaspers I. 2021. Impact of inhaled pollutants on response to viral infection in controlled exposures. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 148(6):doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2021.07.002 PMID:34252446 (ahead of print)
• Rebuli ME, Glista-Baker E, Hoffman JR, Duffney PF, Robinette C, Speen AM, Pawlak EA, Dhingra R, Noah TL, Jaspers I. 2021. Electronic-cigarette use alters nasal mucosal immune response to live-attenuated influenza virus: A clinical trial. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 64(1):126-137. doi:10.1165/rcmb.2020-0164OC PMID:33095645 PMCID:PMC7781000

2020

• Zavala J, Freedman AN, Szilagyi JT, Jaspers I, Wambaugh J, Higuchi M, Rager JE. 2020. New Approach Methods to Evaluate Health Risks of Air Pollutants: Critical Design Considerations for In Vitro Exposure Testing. Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:2124. doi:10.3390/ijerph17062124 PMID:32210027 PMCID:PMC7143849

2016

• Martin EM, Clapp PW, Rebuli ME, Pawlak EA, Glista-Baker E, Benowitz NL, Fry RC, Jaspers I. 2016. E-cigarette use results in suppression of immune and inflammatory-response genes in nasal epithelial cells similar to cigarette smoke. Am J Physiol 311(1):L135-L144. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00170.2016 PMID:27288488 PMCID:PMC4967187