On June 18th, 2020 the Matthews lab attended the virtual conference: The Harvey Stancer Research Day. It is the major research conference for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. This event allows researchers to present their work to one another and to the public, to promote developing scientists. Further information can be found here. Congratulations to Cindy Zhang for receiving the best graphical abstract by a graduate student award! The projects from the Matthe...

Date: February 11-12th, 2020 February 12-15th, 2020 The Matthews Lab attended the 4th DOHaD Canada / 7th CNPRM held in Banff, Alberta. Approximately 300 researchers, trainees, clinicians and policy leaders across Canada participated the meeting. The Program included keynote lecture by Dr. Lucilla Poston, Head of the Department of Women and Children’s Health at King’s College London, trainee flash talks, concurrent sessions, and poster sessions, from the fields of obstetrics and gynecology...

  Thursday December 12, 2019 The lab got together for a departmental holiday luncheon at the Faculty Club on Thursday December 12, 2019.  Everyone had a fun time connecting with colleagues in the department and enjoying the great food! The Matthews Lab also showcased their competitive spirit by winning physiology trivia! A few members in the lab also won raffle prizes, great job everyone!    

The Matthews Lab attended the 11th DOHaD World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, hosted by the DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand from October 20th-23rd 2019. The Congress theme was “Investing in a Healthy Future for All: Research, Education, and Policy.” The Congress brought together basic and clinical researchers and health care professionals from around the world to address the many challenges that currently impact the health of mothers and fathers, babies in the womb, infants, ch...

From August 18-24 2019, the Matthews Lab participated in the 23rd annual exchange in developmental and perinatal biology between the University of Toronto and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden. The projects from the Matthews Lab that were presented at Karolinska are as follows: Antenatal Synthetic Glucocorticoid Programming of Post-natal Blood-brain Barrier Function (Elizabeth Eng – Poster presentation) Differential DNA methylation from various time-to-freeze periods o...

On May 21st 2019, the Matthews lab attended the CPS trainee and awards symposium. This event promoted Canadian physiology and engagement within the physiological society. The projects from the Matthews Lab that were presented at CPS are as follows: The intergenerational effects of synthetic glucocorticoid exposure during the paternal preconception period (Chris Casciaro – Poster presentation) Seasonality and the immune system during pregnancy: Implications for child neurodevelopment and...

  On Friday June 7, 2019, the Matthews Lab attended the annual SORB meeting. This meeting provided an important platform for trainees around Ontario to present their research. This was the 47th annual SORB meeting, which welcomed Dr. Miguel Ramalho-Santosas the Keynote Speaker. Dr. Ramalho-Santos, from the University of Toronto, is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Developmental Epigenetics and is known for his pioneering work in the transcriptional profiling of mouse stem cells...