Can stress influence our genes, now and in the future?

To achieve the full development potential of South Australia's children and adolescents.HDA is an independent non-partisan organisation that encourages the use of evidence-based policy along with universal, targeted and clinical interventions designed to maximise the developmental potential of infants, children, adolescents and families in South Australia.HDA is funded and supported by the Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation, University of Adelaide (Robinson Research Institute), University of South Australia, Flinders University, the Department for Education, the Women’s and Children’s Health Network, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (Women and Kids), Department of Human Services, Department for Child Protection, and Novita.

Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA)

Join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Women’s and Children’s Hospital Grand Round.

Queen Victoria Building, lecture theatre, level 1

This event is free and open to everyone to attend from researchers, clinicians, students, government and the community. You can attend in person or join us online. The MS Teams link will be emailed to all registrants 2 days prior to the event.Can psychological stress influence mechanisms key in gene expression (epigenetics), in turn elevating risk to poorer health outcomes? This talk will center on how childhood experiences can influence individuals throughout the life-cycle, starting with epigenetics and mental health outcomes in early adulthood, and all the way back again to the sperm epigenome which in turn may influence baby health outcomes and fertility outcomes impacting both mother and baby. This latter area speaks to the intergenerational transmission of pre-conception stress, and if this can feasibly be transmitted across generations.OUR SPEAKERA/Professor Sarah Cohen-Woods is a Matthew Flinders Fellow situated within the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work and the Flinders Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing at Flinders University. She completed her PhD in 2008 at Kings College London, and after completing a post-doc moved to Adelaide in 2012. In 2016 Sarah established the Behavioural Genomic and Environmental Mechanisms lab where her group investigates genetic factors in eating disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and even every day cognition and thinking. Her work centres on the nexus between our genes and environment, understanding how they interact to alter our outcomes with a focus on epigenetics and how this is influenced by external factors across the life-cycle – from conception to old age. OUR CHAIRRachael Yates, HDA Ambassador, Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, Women’s and Children’s Health Network.

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