Targeted Research Areas:

• Intergenerational growth and risk of metabolic disorders
• Early life influences on obesity and fat patterning in children: critical periods, environmental determinants and sociocultural context
• Perinatal origins of neuromotor and cognitive dysfunction
• Human neuromotor plasticity, ageing and repair
• Maternal stress and sex differences in perinatal growth and survival: maternal asthma, fetal growth restriction
• Early life programming of diabetes and obesity by fetal growth restriction, maternal obesity
• Functional and epigenetic consequences of maternal micro and macronutrient deficiencies or supplementation for metabolic and neurological function of offspring