Barney Venables, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: BIO 310L
Phone: (940)369-7708
E-mail: venables@unt.edu
Dr. Venables’ research in Environmental chemistry, toxicology
and bioactive lipids has been supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the National Institutes of Health Center for Complimentary
and Alternative Medicine, the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences, the Texas Advanced Research and Technology Programs, the
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as well as other local and
trade organization research groups. He received his undergraduate and
masters degrees from Baylor University and his PhD from the University
of North Texas. He has served as review panelist for national granting
agencies, reviewer for a number of scientific journals, a consultant
to the World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization and
is an active member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry. He has held positions as: visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences, Oklahoma State University; Organization
of American States Visiting Professor, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidad
de Oriente, Venezuela; and President and Research Director, TRAC Laboratories,
Inc. He has published more than sixty peer reviewed scientific articles
and book chapters and one U.S. Patent. He is currently a tenured Associate
Professor of Biology at University of North Texas and Adjunct Professor
of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of North Texas
Health Science Center. He teaches graduate level courses in Environmental
chemistry and instrumental analysis and is directing the research of
seven masters and three doctoral students. He is a member of the University
of North Texas Center for Plant Lipid Research (CPLR) directed by Dr.
Kent Chapman. His work with the CPLR has focused on the biology and
potential therapeutic of applications of plant-derived lipid messenger
molecules known collectively as endocannabinoids.