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 | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Long-term maternal health outcomes |
| Julie Ahringer | Gurdon Institute | Regulatory networks driving developmental trajectories |
| Thorsten Boroviak | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Primate embryo implantation, patterning and gastrulation |
| Tereza Cindrova-Davies | Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research | Human endometrium physiology |
| Steve Charnock-Jones | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Transcriptional features of the human placenta |
| Bill Colledge | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | GnRH Neurons and the Reproductive Axis |
| Miguel Constancia | IMS-MRL/O&G | Genomic imprinting |
| Dino Giussani | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Developmental origin of heart disease |
| Geula Hanin | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Imprinted genes and mammary gland |
| Courtney Hanna | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Epigenetic programming during oogenesis |
| Geraldine Jowett | Gurdon Institute | Forces governing gametogenesis |
| Naomi McGovern | Pathology | Immunology of pregnancy |
| Kathy Niakan | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Early human development and cross-species comparative embryology |
| Sue Ozanne | IMS-MRL | Cardiometabolic health in pregnancy |
| Tom Rawlins | Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research | Molecular underpinnings of recurrent miscarriage |
| Teresa Rayon | Babraham Institute | Developmental timing across and within species |
| Alberton Rosello-Diez | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Signalling mechanisms controlling mammalian developmental tempo |
| Peter Rugg-Gunn | Babraham Institute | Developmental epigenetics |
| Claire Senner | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Maternal influences on embryonic development |
| Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Placental mechanisms controlling pregnancy and later life health outcomes |
| Gordon Smith | Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Clinical maternal-fetal medicine |
| Roser Vento-Tormo | Wellcome Sanger Institute | Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic approaches to study human development |
| Erica Watson | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience | Basic reproduction, coition, fertilization, placenta development |