Dr. Robert M. Hollingworth

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Michigan State University
College of Veterinary Medicine
National Food Safety and Toxicology Center
ProfessorAppointed: 1991
Michigan State University
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Entomology
ProfessorAppointed: 1987

Mailing Address

Room 206
Center for Integrated Plant Systems
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (517) 432-7718
Fax: (517) 353-5598
rmholl@msu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, Insecticide Toxicology, 1966.
B.Sc., University of Reading, England, Agricultural Chemistry, 1962.

Expertise and Research Interests

Research Interests:
Pesticide toxicology;
Comparative toxicology;
Toxicity/metabolism relations;
Actions of toxic agents in insects;
Bioenergetics and pesticide action;
Resistance mechanisms to pesticides:
Risk assessment and pesticide registration.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Bioenergetics, Entomology, Food Safety, Neurochemistry, Neuropharmacology, Pesticides, Toxicology.

Additional Terms:

Food Safety, Risk Assessment.

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society-Divisional Membership in Agrochemicals and Agricultural Food and Chemistry
Entomological Society of America
Society for Risk Analysis
Society of Toxicology-Biochemical Mechanisms and Neurotoxicology Specialty Sections

Previous Positions

1991-1999, Director, Michigan State University, National Food Safety and Toxicology Center
1987-1999, Director, Michigan State University, Pesticide Research Center
1975-1987, Professor, Purdue University, Agriculture, Entomology
1971-1975, Associate Professor, Purdue University, Agriculture, Entomology
1966-1971, Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Agriculture, Entomology

Publications

  • Hollingworth RM, Ahammadsahib KI, Gadelhak G, McLaughlin JL, New inhibitors of complex I of the mitochondrial electron transport chain with activity as pesticides, Biochemical Society Transactions, 22(1), 230-3, February 1994 Abstract
  • Ahammadsahib KI, Hollingworth RM, McGovren JP, Hui YH, McLaughlin JL, Mode of action of bullatacin: a potent antitumor and pesticidal annonaceous acetogenin, Life Sciences, 53(14), 1113-20, 1993 Abstract
  • Orr GL, Orr N, Hollingworth RM, Distribution and pharmacological characterization of muscarinic-cholinergic receptors in the cockroach brain, Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 16(2), 107-22, 1991 Abstract
  • Leavitt RA, Kells JJ, Bunkelmann JR, Hollingworth RM, Assessing atrazine persistence in soil following a severe drought, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 46(1), 22-9, January 1991 Abstract
  • Wierenga JM, Hollingworth RM, Octopamine uptake and metabolism in the insect nervous system, Journal of Neurochemistry, 54(2), 479-89, February 1990 Abstract
  • Hashemzadeh H, Hollingworth RM, Voliva A, Receptors for 3H-octopamine in the adult firefly light organ, Life Sciences, 37(5), 433-40, August 1985 Abstract
  • Ghali GZ, Hollingworth RM, Influence of mixed function oxygenase metabolism on the acute neurotoxicity of the pesticide chlordimeform in mice, Neurotoxicology, 6(2), 215-37, Summer 1985 Abstract

Profile Details

Last Updated: 6/22/2005

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