Developmental & Reproductive Biology

Prof Eileen McLaughlin, Dr Brett Nixon and Dr Shaun Roman

The Developmental & Reproductive Biology group has a research focus on the spermatogenesis and folliculogenesis, in particular, stem cell maintenance, cell differentiation, meiosis and cell:cell interaction.

Research topics include:

1. Effects of Xenobiotics on male and female fertility (EM, BN & SR),
2. Exploitation of novel cell surface markers for sterilising agents (SD EM),
3. Investigation of DNA repair proteins - roles in meiosis and cancer (BN EM),
4. Molecular characterisation of RNA binding proteins in male and female germ cell development (EM),
5. Mechanism of sperm egg recognition for contraceptive development- (BN),
6. Chromatin remodelling - diagnostics for infertility (SD).