Participating Research Groups
Please note that the below list is illustrative. Not all the below Research Groups will be involved in the course every year.
| Name | Department | Topic |
| Catherine Aiken | O&G | Long-term maternal health outcomes |
| Thorsten Boroviak | PDN | Primate embryo implantation, patterning and gastrulation |
| Steve Charnock-Jones | O&G | Transcriptional features of the human placenta |
| Bill Colledge | PDN | GnRH Neurons and the Reproductive Axis |
| Miguel Constancia | IMS-MRL/O&G | Genomic imprinting |
| Antonio Galvao | Babraham Institute | Intergenerational predisposition to disease: the oocyte epigenetic legacy |
| Dino Giussani | PDN | Developmental origin of heart disease |
| Courtney Hanna | PDN | Epigenetic programming during oogenesis |
| Naomi McGovern | Pathology | Immunology of Pregnancy |
| Claire Meek | IMS-MRL | Gestational diabetes |
| Kathy Niakan | PDN | Early human development and cross-species comparative embryology |
| Sue Ozanne | IMS-MRL | Cardiometabolic health in pregnancy |
| John Perry | Epidemiology | Epidemiology and public health connected to reproduction |
| Wolf Reik | Altos Labs | Epigenetic reprogramming and cell fate decisions in development |
| Peter Rugg-Gunn | Babraham Institute | Developmental epigenetics |
| Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri | PDN | Placental mechanisms controlling pregnancy and later life health outcomes |
| Gordon Smith | O&G | Clinical maternal-fetal medicine |
| Azim Surani | Gurdon Institute | Mammalian germline |
| Roser Vento-Tormo | Wellcome Sanger Institute | Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic approaches to study human development |
| Erica Watson | PDN | Basic reproduction, coition, fertilization, placenta development |
| Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz | PDN | Early embryo development and embryo models |