metabolomics

with FFCCS

Past & current metabolomics analyses with the FFCCS are listed below:

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  • Women Firefighters, Municipal Structure Fire: Differential Metabolic Profiles by Structure Fire Exposure in Women Firefighters: A Comparison with Men Firefighters
    • Conducted differential expression analysis on 204 urine samples from women firefighters who underwent live-fire training
    • Developedandvalidatedstatistical models to compare metabolic profiles across firefighter groups
    • Manuscript under development
  • Men Firefighters, WUI Fire: Evaluating Differential Metabolic Profiles by Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI) Fire Exposure: A Comparison with Structure Fires
    • Analyzed 85 firefighter samples for WUI-specific metabolic changes
    • Integrated metabolomics datasets for comparative analysis
    • Presented findings at the 2024 FFCCS Brown Bag meeting
    • Lead author for a manuscript (submitted to Environmental Research)
  • Men Firefighters, Municipal Structure Fire: Differential Metabolic Profiles by Hispanic Ethnicity Among Male Tucson Firefighters
    • Developed an analytical pipeline for metabolomics studies
    • Analyzed 100 firefighter samples for ethnicity-specific metabolic profiles
    • Identified biomarkers for differential exposure by Hispanic ethnicity
    • Presented findings at the 2022 Arizona Cancer Center Retreat
    • Lead authored a manuscript accepted by Metabolomics (Liu et al., 2025)
    • Co-authored a manuscript published on Scientific Report (Furlong et al., 2023)

References

2025

  1. Metabolomics
    Differential metabolic profiles by Hispanic ethnicity among male Tucson firefighters
    Tuo Liu, Melissa A. Furlong, Justin M Snider, and 10 more authors
    Metabolomics, 2025

2023

  1. SciRep
    Evaluating changes in firefighter urinary metabolomes after structural fires: an untargeted, high resolution approach
    Melissa A Furlong, Tuo Liu, Justin M Snider, and 12 more authors
    Scientific Reports, 2023