Bushra Khan
(Term 2025 - Present)
Bushra (she/her) is a project scientist in the Department of Environmental Toxicology of the University of California Davis (UCD). She works at the Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory at Granite Canyon on the Big Sur Coast which is an off-campus research facility of UCS. In her role as Laboratory Director of the facility, she designs and manages a statewide monitoring program for the CA State Water Resources Control Board. Her current work includes application of toxicological tools into conventional monitoring frameworks. Bushra received her bachelor's and master's degree in Zoology from the University of Delhi, India, and her doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her doctoral work included evaluation of sublethal biomarker responses to environmental stress in aquatic ecosystems. Following her doctorate, she worked at the US EPA's Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division in the Office of Research and Development as a National Research Council postdoctoral associate for four years and as a research participant with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for two years. Her work at the EPA included bioaccumulation and toxicological assessments of exposures to emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials, micro- and nano-scale products, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.