Principal Investigator
Professor Christine Jasoni
Email christine.jasoni@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 3071
Fax +64 3 479 7254
Laboratory of Developmental Neuroendocrinology
Department of Anatomy website
Research interests
The focus of our research is on discovering how the maternal environment during pregnancy affects the formation of the fetal brain. With conditions such as obesity and diabetes on the rise in Western society, it is critical that we fully understand the health implications of these disorders for future generations.
At the Centre for Neuroendocrinology we seek to:
- Discover epigenetic changes in the brains of the offspring of obese or diabetic mothers
- Establish specifically how these changes bring about altered development of axon tracts in the offspring hypothalamus
Clinical conditions
- Pregnancy complications
- Childhood obesity
- Mental illness
Jasoni Laboratory staff & students
Yugo Watanabe, Postdoctoral Fellow
The origins of PCOS by prenatal androgen exposure
Email yugo.watanabe@otago.ac.nz
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Research Funders
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund
- Lottery Health Research
- National Research Centre for Growth and Development (Gravida)