Friday, May 6, 2022
3:30 – 5:00 PM
COEH, 100 Theory, Room 158
Svetlana Koshlukova, PhD
Senior Toxicologist
Risk Assessment Section
Human Health Assessment Branch
Department of Pesticide Regulation
CalEPA
Dr. Svetlana Koshlukova is currently the Senior Toxicologist of the Risk Assessment Section in the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), California Environmental Protection Agency. In that post, she supervises DPR’s risk assessment program. She has been a pesticide toxicologist at DPR since 2001, serving either as the lead or contributing risk assessor for numerous complex human health risk assessments on pesticidal active ingredients including methyl parathion, imidacloprid, chlorpyrifos, fipronil, propanil and the fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene, sulfuryl fluoride and allyl isothiocyanate. She is also involved in DPR’s food safety, water safety, and cannabis programs, which evaluate risks from exposure to pesticide residues in fresh produce, drinking water, and cannabis products. Dr. Koshlukova received a MS degree in Chemistry from Sofia University in Bulgaria, and a PhD in Biochemistry from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria. She did postdoctoral work in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and in the Department of Oral Biology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her postdoctoral research focused on molecular mechanisms of action of growth factors and antimicrobial proteins. Dr. Koshlukova has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Her current research interests center on new approach methodologies in human health risk assessment, dosimetry and dietary exposure assessment.o.