Patrick Allard is an associate professor at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics who has dedicated his career to studying the effects of environmental stressors on human health. He is particularly interested in understanding how environmental exposures early in life and across generations can impact long-term health outcomes. Allard's lab uses cutting-edge technologies to examine genetic and epigenetic pathways that connect environmental cues to health effects across the lifespan. The lab leverages the genetic tractability of the nematode C. elegans and ES-cell based models to examine the impact of environmental chemical exposures on germline function and epigenetic homeostasis. Allard's background includes a Ph.D. in Biology from McGill University and post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School. He has expertise in biotechnology, environmental health, molecular and cellular biology, developmental biology, and toxicology.