Dr Karen Kind

Biography/ Background

Current Appointment: 

• Lecturer in Animal Reproduction, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.

Previous Appointments:

• Research Fellow, Early Development Group, Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide.
• Research Officer, Growth and Development Group, Discipline of Physiology, University of Adelaide.
• Research Scientist, CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide.
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) University of New England, Armidale, NSW.
• PhD, Discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide.

Teaching Interests

• Course Coordinator:  Animal Reproduction and Development 3046RW.
• Course Coordinator: Animal Biotechnology 3043RW.

Publications

Publications last 5 years:

• Gatford KL, Smits RJ, Collins CL, Argent C,  De Blasio MJ, Roberts CT, Nottle MB, Kind KL, Owens JA. (2010) Maternal responses to daily maternal porcine somatotropin injections during early-mid or early-late pregnancy in sows and gilts. Journal of Animal Science 88, 1365-1378.
• Schelbach CJ, Kind KL, Lane M, Thompson JG. (2010) Mechanisms contributing to the reduced developmental competence of glucosamine exposed mouse oocytes.  Reproduction, Fertility and Development 22, 771-779.
• Pringle KG, Kind KL, Sferruzzi-Perri AN, Thompson JG, Roberts CT. (2010) Beyond Oxygen: Complex Regulation and Activity of HIFs in Pregnancy. Human Reproduction Update 16, 415-431.
• Gatford KL, De Blasio MJ, Roberts CT, Nottle MB, Kind KL, van Wettere WH, Smits RJ, Owens JA. (2009)  Daily maternal porcine somatotropin injections are more effective than ractopamine in increasing fetal growth during early-mid pregnancy in mature and primiparous pigs. Journal of Endocrinology 203, 143-154.
• Fleming TP, Sinclair KD, Kind KL (2009) Early embryo environment and developmental potential.  Early Life Origins of Human Health and Disease. JP Newnham MG Ross, (eds) Karger, Basel, pp 65-77.
• Banwell KM, Lane M, Russell DL, Kind KL, Thompson JG (2007) Oxygen concentration during mouse oocyte in vitro maturation affects embryo and fetal development. Human Reproduction 22, 2768-2775.
• Harvey AJ, Navarrete Santos AN, Kirstein M, Kind KL, Fischer B, Thompson JG (2007) Differential expression of oxygen-regulated genes in bovine blastocysts. Molecular Reproduction and Development 74, 290-299.
• Harvey AJ, Kind KL, Thompson JG (2007) Regulation of gene expression in bovine blastocysts in response to oxygen and the iron chelator desferrioxamine. Biology of Reproduction 77, 93-101.
• Pringle KG, Kind KL, Thompson JG, Roberts CT (2007) Complex interactions between hypoxia inducible factors, insulin-like growth factor-II and oxygen in early murine trophoblasts. Placenta 28, 1147-1157.
• Tonack S, Kind KL, Thompson JG, Wobus AM, Fischer B, Navarrete Santos A (2007)  Dioxin affects glucose transport via the arylhydrocarbon receptor signal cascade in pluripotent embryonic carcinoma cells. Endocrinology 148, 5902-5912.
• Thompson JG, Mitchell M, Kind KL (2007) Embryo culture and long-term consequences. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 19, 43-52.
• Feil D, Lane M, Roberts CT, Kelley RL, Edwards LJ, Thompson JG, Kind KL (2006) Effect of culturing mouse embryos under different oxygen concentrations on subsequent fetal and placental development. Journal of Physiology 572.1, 87-96.
• Jahangiri A, Leifert WR, Kind KL, McMurchie EJ (2006) Dietary fish oil alters cardiomyocyte Ca2+ dynamics and antioxidant status. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 40,1592-1602.
• Kelley RL, Kind KL, Lane M, Robker RL, Thompson JG, Edwards LJ (2006) Recombinant human follicle stimulating hormone (rhFSH) alters maternal ovarian hormone concentrations and the uterus, and perturbs fetal development in mice. American Journal of Physiology 291, E761-770.
• Kind KL, Moore VM, Davies MJ (2006) Diet around conception and during pregnancy - fetal and neonatal outcomes. Reproductive BioMedicine Online 12, 532-541.

Entry last updated: Friday, 25 Jun 2010