Our Projects
Our Projects
Placental Inflammation
Using RNA-sequencing techniques and the placentas of women with gestational diabetes, we are examining how choline supplementation vs. placebo impacts genetic markers of inflammation
Cholbabies
Cholbabies investigates the effects of prenatal choline supplementation vs. placebo on infant cognition in the areas of reaction time and anticipatory eye movements, which predicts working memory and problem-solving later in life.
Cholteens
The Cholteens study is the first study to explore the long-term effect of maternal prenatal choline intake on memory, attention, executive functioning, and emotional well-being. This novel, fully-virtual 14-year follow-up of a controlled feeding study done in our lab uses Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB Connect), the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) Youth Self Report (YSR) questionnaire, and Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition Revised to assess adolescent offspring cognition
Maternal Choline Group x Project Viva
We’re teaming up with the team at Harvard’s Project Viva for the first study to explore associations between maternal choline intake and inflammation during pregnancy. This population-level epidemiological analysis will provide initial evidence toward the potential beneficial impact of choline on inflammation during pregnancy
Maternal Choline Group x APrON cohort
The future is team science! With initial findings from our Project Viva work, we are teaming up with collaborators at the University of Alberta to try and replicate our findings and amass more evidence regarding the relationship between choline intake and inflammation in pregnancy