Afolarin Ogungbemi- PhD. Ecotoxicology
- Regulatory Scientist at Currenta
Afolarin Ogungbemi
- PhD. Ecotoxicology
- Regulatory Scientist at Currenta
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Introduction
Afolarin Ogungbemi currently works at the Analytics Unit of Currenta. He previously worked at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental research. Afolarin does research in Ecotoxicology, Analytical Chemistry, Industrial chemicals and Plant Protection and Animal Health.
Current institution
Currenta
Current position
- Regulatory Scientist
Additional affiliations
August 2017 - present
November 2015 - March 2016
Publications
Publications (10)
Tests with zebrafish embryos have gained wide acceptance as an alternative test model for drug development and
toxicity testing. In particular, the behavioral response of the zebrafish embryo is currently seen as a useful endpoint to
diagnose neuroactive substances. Consequently, several behavioral test methods have been developed addressing
variou...
Neuroactive chemicals are frequently detected in the environment. At sufficiently high concentrations or within mixtures, they could provoke neurotoxic effects and neurological diseases to organisms and humans. Fast identification of such neuroactive compounds in the environment could help in hazard assessment and risk mitigation. Behavior change i...
Soil properties like organic matter (OM) content show great variation, making it hard to predict the fate and effects of a chemical in different soils. We therefore addressed the question: can we remove the complexity of the soil matrix and yet accurately predict soil toxicity from porewater exposures? Folsomia candida was exposed to imidacloprid i...
Automobile repair workshops are major anthropological sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals
in Nigerian cities. The extent of
contamination of soil from workshops in Ibadan city was evaluated by contamination or pollution index (C/P index) assessment. The C/P index assessment indicated that the soils were categorized f...
Risk assessment of chemicals is usually conducted for individual chemicals whereas mixtures of chemical are occurring in the environment. Considering that neuroactive chemicals are a group of contaminants that dominate in the environment, it is then imperative to understand the combined effects from mixtures. The commonly used models to predict mix...
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) has rapidly become a popular model species for behavioral studies that may be relevant to drug screening and safety toxicology. Zebrafish embryos show a complex behavioral repertoire already a few hours after fertilization. Particularly, early stage zebrafish show characteristic behavioral features such as spontaneous tail c...
Risk assessment of chemicals is usually conducted for individual chemicals whereas mixtures of chemicals occur in the environment. Considering that neuroactive chemicals are a group of contaminants that dominate the environment, it is then imperative to understand the combined effects of mixtures. The commonly used models to predict mixture effects...
Neuroactive substances are the largest group of chemicals detected in European surface waters. Mixtures of neuroactive substances occurring at low concentrations can induce adverse neurological effects in humans and organisms in the environment. Therefore, there is a need to develop new screening tools to detect these chemicals. Measurement of beha...
Here, we give the full analysis of the 18 substances showing neurotoxic effect in the LMR, STC and PMR tests.
