Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Tyrone B. Hayes  was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina where he developed his love for biology. He followed his passion and is now a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught since 1994.

Hayes received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the department of integrative biology at U.C. Berkeley in 1993. After completing his graduate work, he began post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health and the Cancer Research Laboratories at U.C. Berkeley (funded by the National Science Foundation). Within a year he had joined the Berkeley faculty.

Hayes’ research focuses on developmental endocrinology with an emphasis on evolution and environmental regulation of growth and development. For the last 15 years, the role of endocrine disrupting contaminants, particularly pesticides, has been his major focus. Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health, with a specific interest in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns.

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