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Prof. Marilyn Renfree
Research interests
Reproductive and developmental biology
Our group studies reproduction and development in health and disease using marsupials and monotremes as biomedical models.
- Reproductive biology of marsupials and monotremes
- Developmental biology
- Sex determination
- Sexual differentiation
- Endocrine disruption
- Epigenetics
- Genomic imprinting
- Embryonic diapause
- Lactation and growth
- Limb development
- Innate immunity
- Comparative genomics.
Research projects
- Regulatory mechanisms of testicular and ovarian development and the role of long non-coding RNAs
- Gene and hormonal control of gonadal and phallus differentiation and effects of envrionmental endocrine disruptors
- Marsupials as models for disorders of sexual development including sex reversal and hypospadias
- Early embryonic and post-natal development of the echidna
- Genomic imprinting and epigenetic control of germ cell reprogramming during early development