Our latest article on within-litter maternal care and gene x environment interactions has now been published! Article below is open access 👇 #maternalcare #dopamine #GxE McGowan Lab Cell and Systems Biology UTSC Biology U of T Scarborough Research & Innovation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/br…

Next up in our seminar series is Dr. Annie Ciernia Annie Vogel Ciernia and Jennifer Kim @jennjennkim! Join us on Fri, Mar 19 @ 9am PST / 12pm EST to hear about their work on epigenomic regulation in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders. mcgill.zoom.us/j/83761976697?…

Just published! “Prenatal Stress and Child Development” examines the complex impact of prenatal #stress and the mechanism of its transmission on children’s development and well-being. Read it at: bit.ly/3xffDZ5

What a collection of heavy-hitters! Great fun to collaborate with Dr. Jodi Pawluski, PhD, HDR, PMH-C and Katherine Cost!

So excited to see this review article online (coauthored with Alison Fleming and McGowan Lab) and I'm looking forward to seeing more work emerge on this topic! #developmentalprogramming #maternalcare #epigenetics #GxE UTSC Biology U of T Scarborough Research & Innovation doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

Jerome Kagan, a giant in the field of developmental psychology, passed away this week isdp.org/jerome-kagan/ via ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social

Super excited about our new BioRxiv paper. If you are interested in microglia gene expression and want an easy way (no programming required!) to compared your gene lists to gene lists from the literature - check it out.

Postdoctoral Position in Neuroscience and Epigenetics with McGowan Lab University of Toronto, Canada jobrxiv.org/job/university… #ScienceJobs

Are you using AAV to deliver genes to the nervous system? Good news / bad news. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… First the bad news: we found AAV can shrink dendrites and disrupt synaptic transmission. The good news? We figured out why it happens, and can tell you how to avoid it. (1/n)

Comprehensive analyses of RNA-seq and genome-wide data point to enrichment of neuronal cell type subsets in neuropsychiatric disorders pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34719691/

🚨Check out our new paper🚨 Sex-specific maternal programming of corticosteroid-binding globulin by predator odour. McGowan Lab @sophia_lavergne Sophie St-Cyr @richardleandro8 UTSC Biology U of T Scarborough Research & Innovation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Hello Everyone! We are looking for a post-doctoral fellow #postdoc to join our research team and to investigate the interactions between the environment, gut microbiome and mental health. Thank you for helping us spread the word!

Check out our latest paper! Combined exposure to maternal high-fat diet and neonatal lipopolysacch... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A central question for our upcoming, pre-symptomatic genomics future is becoming clear: how much is a life worth? Benefits, harms, and costs of newborn genetic screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Estimates from the PreEMPT model gimjournal.org/article/S1098-…

🔥Symposium alert: FENS Forum: 28 June 2024 in Vienna🔥 Come hear from Cristiana Cruceanu Katharina Gapp Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD & me about how the biology of future generations is sculpted by hormones, chemosensory stimuli & early life adversity. #FENS2024 fens2024.abstractserver.com/program/#/deta…

It’s happening! #PB2025 ! Save the dates. See you in Barcelona! Also follow the new X account Parental Brain Meetings !

Excited to share our new paper on experimental and computational methods for studying #DNAmethylation with Infinium arrays in low-input samples, even single cells! We dived into the nuances of chromatin states and germ cell development. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Today's blog: how wages on admin staff have grown over time and what that likely means for future institutional downsizing (hint: "external relations" seem pretty exposed) higheredstrategy.com/growth-and-cut…

This took a while to pull together, but hopefully it will be a useful resource