Serhan Mermer

Assistant Professor
mermers [at] oregonstate.edu

Our lab focuses on understanding the toxicology, chemistry, and risk assessment of agrochemicals and pesticides in the environment, agriculture, and human health. My research area includes measuring the environmentally relevant levels of pesticides and agrochemicals in the environment, food, and other matrices via analytical chemistry-based methods e.g., high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) as well as using modeling approaches to understand the risk assessment of pesticides and agrochemicals. In addition, our lab aims to develop and implement a research-driven extension program that integrates knowledge and information from environmental toxicology, chemistry, and related disciplines to foster sustainable agricultural practices as well as assisting stakeholders in science-based decision-making.

Research Interest

Integrated Pest Management (Pesticide Spray Application Methods, Mating Disruption, Insecticide Resistance, and Pesticide Toxicology)

Insect-Plant Interactions/ Chemical Ecology

Pesticide Residue Analysis, Agricultural and Analytical Chemistry (Spray Adjuvants and Surfactants), Non-Target/ High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (HRMS), Environmental Risk Assessment

At OSU

Affiliated with:

Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

Headquarters:

OSU Main Campus

Career Links:

Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

I accept graduate students for the Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Department

Major(s):

Ph.D., Horticulture, Entomology (option), and Toxicology (minor)

Courses Taught:

Pest, Plagues, and Politics: ENT 300- (Co-Instructor)

Principals of Integrated Pest Management (IPM): System Design ENT 542- (Co-Instructor)

Beyond OSU

Personal Interests:

Do you advise nonthesis students?:

Yes

Biography

Ph. D., (2020), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

Departments of Horticulture and Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, USA

Optimization of agrochemical application technologies, strategies and chemical control of Spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), Diptera: Drosophilidae as a model organism and identification of trisiloxane and silane surfactants in agricultural spray adjuvants.

Master of Science, (2012), Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey

Department of Plant Protection, Entomology / Environmental Toxicology and Biotechnology

Current resistance status of European Grapevine Moth (Lobesia botrana, Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in Manisa vineyards, Turkey.

Bachelor of Science, (2009), Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey

Department of Plant Protection

Relation of intraguild predation between Hemicheyletia bakeri (Acari: Cheyletidae) and Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Professional Accomplishments

Professional Affiliations:

Visiting Researcher, (Nov-Dec 2020), Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Visiting Researcher, (2010), Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ecological Chemistry, Munich, Germany

Employment:

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, (2023-Present)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA, (2020-2023)

My Awards

Honors and Awards:

Awards

1st Annual OHSU/OSU Postdoctoral Symposium, 1st place for the Most Innovative Poster Award, November 2022.

Oregon State University Postdoctoral Association Professional Development Award, November 2021.

Oregon State University Postdoctoral Association Professional Development Award, June 2020.

Student scholarship and Judge`s Choice award recipient at North American Chemical Residue Workshop, Naples, FL, USA July 2019.

Patent

Plant volatiles associated with brown marmorated stink bug antennal response and behavior (OSU Patent Office, 2020).

My Publications

Google Scholar

2017

Journal Article

J. D. Berset, Mermer, S., Robel, A. E., Walton, V. M., Chien, M. L., and Field, J., “Direct residue analysis of systemic insecticides and some of their relevant metabolites in wines by liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry”, Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1506, pp. 45 - 54, 2017.

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