2023-08-24. Keaton will be presenting at the September Canadian Placental Seminar Series. His talk will focus on his recent work assessing the effects of maternal cigarette smoking on the placenta.
2023-05-16. Sam will be presenting at the IFPA 2023 meeting, September 5th - 8th in Rotorua, New Zealand, as part of the Integrated approaches to detecting pregnancy pathologies workship. Her talk is titled “Second trimester cell-free placental DNA methylation profiles in preterm birth subtypes.”
2023-05-01. Welcome to the new Wilson Pregnancy Lab members! Keaton and Simon will be joining the lab as coop students, and Natalie will be continuing in the lab as a coop student. Laiba will be joining the lab for the summer to gain computational skills for her indpendent learning course. Check out the team page to learn more about their projects.
2023-04-14. Congratulations to Mehroop for winning best thesis presentation in her session at the Biology Undergraduate Research Day!
2023-04-13. Ahmed and Mehroop present their fourth year theses at the Biochemistry Undergraduate Research Day and Biology Research Day, respectfully.
2023-03-24. Sam will be a speaker at the Society of Birth Defects Research and Prevention Meeting that will be in Charleston, SC, USA, June 24 - 28th, 2023. Her talk is titled “Epigenomic Techniques and Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Pregnancy Complications.”
2023-03-23. Sam is co-author on a paper titled “Characterization of methylation profiles in spontaneous preterm birth placental villous tissue”
2022-09-19. New students, Ahmed Berih, Mehroop Randhawa, and Nataie Yuen join the lab.
2022-09-19. The “Sensitive and reproducible cell-free methylome quantification with synthetic spike-in controls” publication is now available online at Cell Reports Methods
2022-08-19. The Wilson Pregnancy Lab has received funding from the Preeclampsia Foundation Vision Grant for the study “Non-invasively assessing placental aging and oxidative stress as markers for preeclampsia”. The press release for the grant can be found here.
2022-07-01. The Wilson lab has officially opened at McMaster University in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. To kick off the lab, the official Wilson Pregnancy Lab logo is here!