@preg_lab

Professor Rosalind John leads the Pregnancy Research Epigenetics Group at Cardiff University. Maternal mental health, imprinted genes & placental hormones

 Cardiff, Wales
cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81202-john-rosalind
Joined March 2016
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An example of maternal behaviour? Or just an offspring that won't let go!
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@sciencegirl18 Oct 2022
Baby pangolins are called pangopups, they ride on the slope of their mothers tail, this way she can curl up in a ball around her baby to protect it, a mother acting as a shield for her infant
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Interested in developmental origins of health and disease #DoHaD #FetalProgramming #pregnancy #StemCells? Want to study in Cardiff? Funded PhD: "Aging before birth: identifying influences of modifiable maternal lifestyle on telomere length" swbio.ac.uk/ @SWBio_DTP
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One week left of our early-bird registration! Join us in November @royalsociety and online for our fantastic meeting on #Genetics of #Reproduction. Register here: genetics.org.uk/events/genet… #GenSocRepro #meeting
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Deadline to submit abstracts to our Genetics of Reproduction meeting is this Friday! We have a fantastic line-up of speakers for our meeting @royalsociety and online on 18 Nov. genetics.org.uk/events/genet… #GenSocRepro
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Please retweet about this excellent one day meeting starring the most fundamentally important process = reproduction! #GenSocRepro
The Genetics Society@GenSocUK26 Sep 2022
Interested in Reproduction? Join us on 18Nov @royalsociety & online for our Genetics of Reproduction meeting. Deadline for abstract submission is next week: 7Oct. Early-bird registration until 17 Oct: genetics.org.uk/events/genet… #GenSocRepro #meeting #conference
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In support of maternal mental health - we reported #postnataldepression linked to lower levels of placental lactogen. We now report that consuming a Health Conscious diet in pregnancy linked to higher levels of this important hormone @PMHPUK @Perinatal_MH frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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🎉Great news! Early-bird registration for our Genetics of Reproduction conference has been EXTENDED until 17 Oct. Join us @royalsociety & online on 18 Nov. Registration: genetics.org.uk/events/genet… #GenSocRepro #conference
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One week left of early-bird registration to our Genetics of Reproduction conference @royalsociety & online! genetics.org.uk/events/genet…
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returning from #ISDBSDB22 - excellent developmental biology #singlecellrna-seq #oscillations ⁦@_BSDB_⁩ and what a location #malta
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Our Autumn meeting is on Genetics Of Reproduction, on 18th November @royalsociety and online. Registration is now open, find out more here: genetics.org.uk/events/genet… #GenSocRepro
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Delighted to promote the next @GenSocUK meeting taking place @royalsociety in November focused on the genetics of reproduction. Truly talented group of speakers and excellent opportunities for ECRs to present. Please retweet! #GenSocRepro
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Amazing dinner with @ProlactinGuy , @preg_lab , @Sooraj_SVN !
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Surani lab mini reunion at Mendel’s 200th birthday celebration, RHS Wisley @GenSocUK @HGLeitch @GurdonInstitute @Kat_Arney @AnneF_S
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Super proud to have contributed to the supervision of Nicola Savory who was the research midwife on our MRC funded #GrownInWalesStudy #placenta #maternaldepression. Graduated! Congratulations Dr Savory! @CUBiosciences @CUHealthSci
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Our last speaker of the day is our joint Mendel Medal Awardee Prof Azim Surani talking about 'Genomic Imprinting: why bother?'. Join us here: youtube.com/watch?v=zP8hB4ij… #Mendel200 #Mendel200GenSoc @GurdonInstitute
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New PhD opportunities at Cardiff University @CUBiosciences swbio.ac.uk/phd-projects-sta… We study prenatal adversity in human pregnancy and have project in this round: Aging before birth: identifying prenatal influences of lifestyle on telomeres and the epigenetic clock
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Congratulations to ex-Preg_lab member @RBoqueSastre for her very own Grown in Wales/delivered in Spain baby. Baby Berta and mother are doing well. And yes - she did send me a photo of the placenta! 🚼
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New research suggests inheritance of impaired #epigenetic regulators from oocyte rather than direct change to DNA methylation: Maternal inheritance of glucose intolerance via oocyte TET3 insufficiency | Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Maternal inheritance of glucose intolerance via oocyte TET3 insufficiency

Nature - Pregestational hyperglycaemia in mothers increases the probability of glucose intolerance in the offspring, an effect controlled by TET3-dependent DNA demethylation of genes involved in...

nature.com
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📢Rydym yn falch iawn o rannu bod ymchwil @CUBiosciences y: ➡️7fed yn y DU am effaith ymchwil 👏👏👏 ➡️8fed yn y DU am bŵer ymchwil 👏👏👏 HEFYD: Cyfrifir 88% o’n hymchwil yn swyddogol gyda’r gorau yn y byd neu’n rhagorol yn rhyngwladol bit.ly/3FKVyP9

Ysgol y Biowyddorau yn ennill canlyniadau rhagorol yn FfRhY 2021

O fewn y DU, fe’n dynodwyd y 7fed am effaith ymchwil a’r 8fed am bŵer ymchwil yn y Gwyddorau Biolegol

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From the protection of #endangeredspecies🐘 to the management of healthy #freshwaterecosystems🌊 today we are celebrating the difference our research makes. Huge congratulations to all our researchers and everyone in our School who supports their work: bit.ly/3PsB7Lx
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