Kyle Messier, Ph.D.

Stadtman Investigator

National Toxicology Program/Spatiotemporal Exposures and Toxicology Group

NIEHS

2008
530 Davis Drive (Keystone Bldg)
530 Davis Dr (Rtp)
Durham, NC 27713

984-287-3215

kyle.messier@nih.gov

Research Topics

Spatiotemporal models are a class of statistical models that explicitly account for the spatial and/or temporal correlation in data. They have a rich history in fields such mining, forestry, petroleum engineering , exposure science, and most recently, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Within environmental health sciences, there is an ever-growing need for methodological development and applications of spatiotemporal models that can handle the large, complex data and interdisciplinary challenges. Towards this end, the central theme of the Spatiotemporal Exposures and Toxicology Group (SET) is to develop spatiotemporal methods and applications in environmental and human health exposure science while also exploring innovative applications of geospatial and spatiotemporal methods in toxicology.

Currently, the Spatiotemporal Exposures and Toxicology Group is interested in:

  • Geospatial exposure, disparity, and risk mapping
  • Geospatial mapping of mixture exposure through common molecular initiating events
  • Spatiotemporal mapping connections to toxicology
  • Toxicokinetic and toxicological-based geospatial risk mapping

Biography

Kyle P. Messier, Ph.D. Messier is a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT). He also holds a joint appointment with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in Bethesda, Maryland. Messier received a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch.

Selected Publications

  1. Messier KP, Katzfuss M. Scalable penalized spatiotemporal land-use regression for ground-level nitrogen dioxide. Ann Appl Stat. 2021;15(2):688-710.
  2. Lowe ME, Akhtari FS, Potter TA, Fargo DC, Schmitt CP, Schurman SH, Eccles KM, Motsinger-Reif A, Hall JE, Messier KP. The skin is no barrier to mixtures: Air pollutant mixtures and reported psoriasis or eczema in the Personalized Environment and Genes Study (PEGS). J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2023;33(3):474-481.
  3. Messier KP, Tidwell LG, Ghetu CC, Rohlman D, Scott RP, Bramer LM, Dixon HM, Waters KM, Anderson KA. Indoor versus Outdoor Air Quality during Wildfires. Environ Sci Technol Lett. 2019;6(12):696-701.

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