Welcome to the Wilson Pregnancy Lab!
We are an 'omics research group with an emphasis on genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics. Our goal is to develop non-invasive methods to predict pregnancy complications before they occur, and to understand the cause of placental dysfunction. We work in the fields of genomics, computational biology, and reproduction.
Wilson Pregnancy Lab Updates
2026-04-08. Congratulations to Rinsy for successfully defending her undergraduate thesis!
2026-04-07. Congratulations to both Kriesha and Rinsy for completing their undergraduate degress!
2026-03-31. Mel will present her most recent work titled “Impact of biopsy on trophectoderm gene expression: a preliminary investigation into placental disorders after PGT” at the McMaster Medical Science Research Day
2026-03-20. Congratulations to Natalie for winning runner-up for best MSc presentation at the BBSRS research day!
2026-03-20. Natalie will give a talk at the BBSRS Research day titled “Tissue-specific genetic and epigenetic characterization of maternal plasma cell-free DNA”
2026-03-08. Sam will give a talk titled “Messages from the Placenta: Molecular signals of Pregnancy Health” as a keynote speaker at the International Women’s and Children’s Health Conferece.
2026-02-26. Laiba and Keaton’s paper titled Distinct DNA methylation signatures in maternal blood reveal unique immune shifts in preeclampsia and the pregnancy-postpartum transition was published in PLOS ONE.
2026-02-19. Sam is a co-author on the paper A pan-cancer compendium of 1294 plasma cell-free DNA methylomes and fragmentomes enabling multicancer detection in Nature Cancer.