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Otakuye Conroy-Ben

Otakuye Conroy-Ben

Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Otakuye.Conroy@asu.edu

480-727-4514

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Arizona State University
PO Box 873005
Tempe, AZ 85287-3005

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Assistant Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Biography

Otakuye Conroy-Ben (Oglala Lakota) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Build Environment at Arizona State University. Conroy-Ben received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, an MA in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Arizona.  Her research focuses on the biological effects of polluted water.  Her research interests include environmental endocrine disruption, metal and antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and wastewater epidemiology.  She teaches the courses CEE 361 Introduction to Environmental Engineering, CEE 560 Soil & Groundwater Remediation, and CEE 564 Contaminant Fate and Transport.  Conroy-Ben is advisor to the ASU chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES).

Education

  • PhD, Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona
  • MA, Analytical Chemistry, University of Arizona
  • BS, Chemistry, University of Notre Dame

Expertise

Journal Articles

2016

Huber, J. M., K. L. Carlson, O. Conroy-Ben, M. Misra and S. K. Mohanty. 2016. Development of a field enhanced photocatalytic device for biocide of coliform bacteria. Journal of Environmental Sciences 44(June):38-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.08.023. (link )

2015

Li, X., S. Teske and O. Conroy-Ben. 2015. Estrogen mimics induce genes encoding chemical efflux proteins in gram-negative bacteria. Chemosphere 128(June):327-331. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.02.020. (link )

2010

Conroy-Ben, O., E. Kim, M. M. McEvoy and C. Rensing. 2010. Differeing ability to transport nonmetal substrates by two RND-type metal exporters. FEMS Microbiology Letters 308(2):115-122. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02006.x. (link )

2007

Conroy, O., A. E. Saez, D. Quanrud, W. Ela and R. G. Arnold. 2007. Changes in estrogen/anti-estrogen activities in ponded secondary effluent. Science of the Total Environmnet 382(2-3):311-323. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.04.033. (link )

2005

Conroy, O., D. M. Quanrud, W. P. Ela, D. Wicke, K. E. Lansey and R. G. Arnold. 2005. Fate of wastewater effluent hER-agonists and hER-antagonists during soil aquifer treatment. Environmental Science & Technology 39(7):2287-2293. DOI: 10.1021/es049490b. (link )

2004

Quanrud, D., K. Quast, O. Conroy, M. M. Karpiscak, C. P. Gerba, K. E. Lansey, W. P. Ela and R. G. Arnold. 2004. Estrogenic activity and volume fraction of waste water origin in monitoring wells along the Santa Cruz River, Arizona. Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation 24(2):86-93. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2004.tb00716.x. (link )

2002

Ehringer, M. A., J. Thompson, O. Conroy, D. Goldman, T. L. Smith, M. A. Schuckit and J. M. Sikela. 2002. Human alcoholism studies of genes identified through mouse quantitative trait loci analysis. Addiction Biology 7(4):365-371. DOI: 10.1080/1355621021000005496. (link )

Ehringer, M. A., J. Thompson, O. Conroy, F. Yang, R. Hink, B. Bennett, T. E. Johnson and J. M. Sikela. 2002. Fine mapping of polymorphic alcohol-related quantitative trait loci candidate genes using interval-specific congenic recombinant mice. Alocoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 26(11):1603-1608. DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000036921.33411.67. (link )

2001

Ehringer, M. A., J. Thompson, O. Conroy, Y. Xu, F. Yang, J. Canniff, M. Beeson, L. Gordon, B. Bennett, T. E. Johnson and J. M. Sikela. 2001. High-throughput sequence identification of gene coding variants within alcohol-related QTLs. Mammalian Genome 12(8):657-663. DOI: 10.1007/s00335-001-1001-x. (link )

Posters

2019

Muenich, R. L., O. Conroy-Ben, C. Williams and P. Condon. 2019. The nexus of agricultural and urban trade-offs: Enhancing interdisciplinary education and research to create emerging opportunities in urban agriculture. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.

Reports

2013

Conroy-Ben, O. and T. Christensen. 2013. Reducing Highway Litter. Research Division, Utah Department of Transportation. Final Report UT-13.11. (link )