Griffith University

BSc, MSc, PhD

Research Fellow, Smartwater Research Facility

Contact details for Dr Frederic Leusch

Research expertise

• Endocrine disruptors
• Bioanalytical methods
• Health risk assessment
• Recycled water

Publications

• Chapman HF, Leusch FDL and Tan BLL (2008). Risk management of chemicals in recycled water. Chapter 5 in Purified recycled water for drinking: The technical issues. Queensland Water Commission, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. 273pp.
• GWRC (2008). Tools to detect estrogenicity in environmental waters ? Final report. Global Water Research Coalition / Water Environment Research Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA. 74pp.
• Leusch FDL, Khan S, and Chapman HF (2007). Chemical contaminants in water: Can we measure everything? In: Khan S, Stuetz R, Anderson J (Eds) Water Reuse and Recycling 2007. Proceedings of the 3rd AWA Water Reuse and Recyling Conference, Sydney, Australia, 16-18 July 2007.
• Tan BLL, Hawker DW, Mueller JF, Leusch FDL, Tremblay LA, and Chapman HF (2007). Modelling of the fate of selected endocrine disruptors in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in South East Queensland, Australia. Chemosphere 69: 644-654.
• Tan BLL, Hawker DW, Mueller JF, Leusch FDL, Tremblay LA, and Chapman HF (2007). Comprehensive study of endocrine disrupting compounds using grab and passive sampling at selected wastewater treatment plants in South East Queensland, Australia. Environ Int 33: 654-669.
• GWRC (2006). In vitro bioassays to detect estrogenic activity in environmental waters - A literature review. Global Water Research Coalition / Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF), Alexandria, VA, USA. 76pp.
• Bandelj E, van den Heuvel MR, Leusch FDL, Shannon N, Taylor S, and McCarthy LH (2006). Determination of the androgenic potency of whole effluents using mosquitofish and trout bioassays. Aquatic Toxicol. 80: 237-248.
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, van den Heuvel MR, Tan BLL, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2006). Bioassay-derived androgenic and estrogenic activity in municipal sewage in Australia and New Zealand. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf. 65: 403-411.
• van den Heuvel MR, Leusch FDL, Taylor S, Shannon N, McKague AB (2006). Assessment of the reproductive-endocrine disrupting potential of chlorine dioxide oxidation products of plant sterols. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40(8): 2594-2600.
• Leusch FDL, van den Heuvel MR, Chapman HF, Gooneratne SR, Eriksson AME, and Tremblay LA (2006). Development of methods for extraction and in vitro quantification of estrogenic and androgenic activity of wastewater samples. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 143:117-126.
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, Kay GW, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2006). Anal fin morphology and gonadal histopathology in mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) exposed to treated municipal sewage effluent. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 50: 562-574.
• Sarmah AK, Northcott GL, Leusch FDL, and Tremblay LA (2006). A survey of endocrine disrupting chemicals in municipal sewage and animal waste effluents in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Sci. Total Environ. 335(1-3): 98-105.
• van den Heuvel MR, Leusch FDL, Taylor S, Shannon N, and McKague AB (2006). Assessment of the reproductive-endocrine disrupting potential of chlorine dioxide oxidation products of plant sterols. Environ. Sci. Technol. 40(8): 2594-2600.
• Tremblay LA, Fisher P, Leusch FDL, van den Heuvel MR, Nicolas JC, Pilon A, and Balaguer P (2005). Potential of sodium fluoroacetate (1080) and fluorocitrate to bind to androgen and oestrogen receptors. Australasian J. Ecotoxicol. 11(3): 155-162.
• Leusch FDL, van den Heuvel MR, Laurie AD, Chapman HF, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2005). Quantification of vitellogenin mRNA induction in mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction. Biomarkers 10(6): 429-438.
• Leusch FDL, Chapman HF, Koerner W, Gooneratne SR, and Tremblay LA (2005). Efficacy of an advanced sewage treatment plant in Southeast Queensland, Australia, to remove estrogenic chemicals. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39: 5781-5786.
• Chapman HF, Leusch FDL, Tremblay LA, Lim RP, and Shaw GR (2005). An international approach towards assessing estrogenicity in water. Proceedings of Australian Water Association Chemicals of Concern in Water, 22-23 June 2005, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 8pp.
• Tremblay LA, Fisher P, and Leusch FDL (2004). Potential of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) and fluorocitrate to bind to estrogen receptor. Australasian J. Ecotoxicol. 10(2): 77-83.
• Leusch FDL, and MacLatchy DL (2003).  In vivo implants of beta-sitosterol cause reductions of reactive cholesterol pools in mitochondria isolated from gonads of male goldfish (Carassius auratus). Gen. Comp. Endocr. 134(3): 255-263.
• Gilman CI, Leusch FDL, Breckenridge WC, and MacLatchy DL (2003).  Effects of a phytosterol mixture on male fish plasma lipoprotein fractions and testis P450scc activity. Gen. Comp. Endocr. 130(2): 172-184.