Wendie A. Robbins, M.S.N., Ph.D.
wrobbins@sonnet.ucla.edu

Dr. Robbins came to UCLA as an Assistant Professor in Fall 1997. She earned a B.S. in Nursing from Arizona State University (1978), M.S. in Nursing from the University of Arizona (1981), and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She did her dissertation work with the Biomedical Research Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Dr. Robbins' research interests include biomarkers used in epidemiologic studies of reproductive/offspring health (development, application and evaluation of biomarkers); reproductive and environmental epidemiology; germ cell mutagenesis; gene environment interactions; and community-based participatory research. She is Biolaboratory Core Director for the UCLA Center for Vulnerable Populations Research. Her clinical interests include germ cell cytogenetics (induced damage and offspring health); occupational and environmental health; infertility; and family and women's health care.

Recent Publications:
Robbins WA, Vine MF, Truong KY, Everson RB (1997) Use of FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) to assess effects of smoking, caffeine, and alcohol on aneuploidy load in sperm of healthy men, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, 30:175-183.

Robbins WA, Meistrich ML, Cassel MJ, Weier H-U, Hagemeister FB, Wilson G, Eskenazi B, Wyrobek AJ (1997) Chemotherapy induces transient sex chromosomal and autosomal aneuploidy in human sperm, Nature Genetics, 16:74-78.

Robbins WA, Rubes J, Selevan SG, Perreault SD (1999) Air pollution and sperm aneuploidy in healthy young men, Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology,1:125-131.

Robbins WA, Witt KL, Haseman JK, Dunson DB, Troiano L, Cohen MS, Hamilton CD, Perreault SD, Bishop JB, Beyler SA, Raburn D, Libbus B, Sanders L, Tedder ST, Morris R, Johndrow D, Jameson WC, Shelby MD (2001) Antiretroviral therapy effects on genetic and morphologic endpoints in lymphocytes and sperm of men with Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 184:127-135.

Recio R, Robbins WA, Ocampo-Gomez G, Borja-Aburto V, Moran-Martinez J, Froines JR, Garcia Hernandez, RM, Cebrian ME (2001) Organophosphorous pesticide exposure increases the frequency of sperm sex null aneuploidy, Environmental Health Perspectives, 109:1237-1240.

Ong TD, Xun L, Perreault SD, Robbins WA (2002) Aneuploidy and chromosome breakage in swim-up versus unprocessed semen from 20 healthy men, Journal of Andrology, 23:270-277.

Pekler VA, Robbins WA, Nyamathi A, Yashina TL, Leak B, Robins TA (2003) Use of Versantô TMA and bDNA 3.0 Assays to detect and quantify hepatitis C virus in semen, accepted Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis.

Young KE, Robbins WA, Xun L, Elashoff D, Rothmann SA, Perreault SD (2003) Evaluation of chromosome breakageand DNA integrity in sperm: an investigation of remote semen collection conditions, Journal of Andrology 24:853-861.

Chapin RE, Robbins WA, Scheive L, Sweeney A, Tabacova S, Tomashek K (2003) History Matters: The influence of pre- and peri-conceptional exposures, parental fertility, and nutrition on childrensí health, Environmental Health Perspectives 112:69-78.

Robbins WA (2003) FISH (Fluorescence in situ hybridization) to detect effects of smoking, caffeine, and alcohol on human sperm chromosomes, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 518:59-72.

Current Doctoral Students:
Karen Young