Rachel Gonzalez received her B.S. in Psychology and in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rachel received her PhD in Neuroscience, also from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her doctoral work focused on consequences of neuroendocrine disruption including exposure to the gestational diabetes growth environment and to the water disinfection byproduct iodoacetic acid. She is interested in investigating how individual epigenetic variation influences the etiology and progression of neurological disorders.

 

Outside of lab, Rachel likes to read, bike ride, and make and view visual art.

Research Experience

Graduate student, PI: Lori Raetzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016-2021

Research Assistant, PI: Neal Cohen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014-2016

 

Selected fellowships and honors

Outstanding Abstract Award, ENDO 2021, March 2021

Endocrine Society FLARE Fellow, 2020

Women in Endocrinology Young Investigator Award, March 2019

NIH T32 Pre-doctoral Fellow, 2018 – 2021

University of Illinois Neuroscience Program Fellow, 2016- 2017

 

Selected Publications

Gonzalez, R.V.L., Weis, K.E., Gonsioroski, A.V., Flaws, J.A., Raetzman, L.T., Iodoacetic Acid, a Water Disinfection Byproduct, Disrupts Hypothalamic, and Pituitary Reproductive Regulatory Factors and Induces Toxicity in the Female Pituitary, Toxicological Sciences, 2021;, kfab106, https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfab106