Prenatal programming of offspring development
The impact of prenatal exposure to stress, toxins, or nutritional variation on placental and offspring brain gene expression
Epigenetic effects of maternal behavior and maternal-offspring interplay
Study of the epigenetic variation that emerges in response to variation in mother-infant interactions experienced during development and how the environment impacts these interactions
Long-term epigenetic effects of childhood trauma
Examination of the epigenetic response to trauma experienced in childhood and how this relates to psychiatric risk
Stress and the epigenome
Determining how acute and chronic stressors experienced across the lifespan impact DNA methylation