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 and uses mouse genetics to understand developmental pathways
The projects from the Matthews Lab that were presented at SORB are as follows:
Involvement of Germ Cell MicroRNAs in the Transgenerational Effects of Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure (Hirotaka Hamada – Oral presentation)
Antenatal Synthetic Glucocorticoid Programming of Post-natal Blood-brain Barrier Function
(Elizabeth Eng – Poster presentation)
Differential DNA methylation from various time-to-freeze periods of dried blood spots (Bona Kim – Poster presentation)
The intergenerational effects of synthetic glucocorticoid exposure during the paternal preconception period (Chris Casciaro – Poster presentation)
Effects of synthetic glucocorticoids on human neuronal gene expression and DNA methylation in vitro (Connor Mabbott – Poster Presentation)
Seasonality and the immune system during pregnancy: Implications for child neurodevelopment and women with seasonal affective disorder (Cindy Zhang – Poster Presentation)