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Activist, outreach enthusiast & Mentor

Dr. Carmel Martin-Fairey

About

My Story

My overarching research interests are centered around understanding the neural underpinnings of cognition as infromed by the intrauterine environment. My long-term research interest lies in the role of circadian rhythms in behavioral and physiological processes that facilitate and modulate cognition and reproductive health. The main objective of my current work is to determine the risk of preterm birth in chronodisrupted mothers. One focus of my current work is to determine how environmental and genetic chronodisruption effect gestation and parturition. I am also pursuing studies on the relationship between maternal and fetal circadian rhythms during pregnancy. Research aimed at better understanding not only the risks that perturbation of the sleep/wake cycle pose to mother and child during pregnancy, the relationship between maternal and fetal circadian rhythms in utero and also the possible cognitive outcomes could help to elucidate future interventions for preterm birth, and ameliorate the poor health outcomes of preterm babies.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

– Nikki Giovanni

Featured Works

Maternal health and circadian rhythms 

Pregnancy Induces an Earlier Chronotype in
Both Mice and Women

HBCU Digest Interview

An interesting dive into my motivations and commitment to my career based on my primary training

SOciety for Neuroscience Hot Topic

My doctoral work centered on rhythmic expression of BDNF and clock genes in the diurnal brain and daily rhythms in hippocampal dependent learning and memory recall 

Education

Behavioral Neuroscience, PhD

Michigan State University

A time to forget : circadian and cognitive costs of nocturnal activity for a diurnal brain

Zoology, Masters of Science

Minor in Biotechnology

North Carolina State University

A Tale of Breast Cancer, Behavior and Brains as Affected by Diet and Claudins

Animal and Poultry Sciences, BS

Concentration in the Sciences

Tuskegee University

Fecal Shedding of Campylobacter jejuni in Dairy Cattle

Work

My Recent Work

University Service

Mentoring, Scholarship and Communtiy Outreach

Classroom

Lessons and learning

In the Lab

Long term Potentiation

Community Scientific Outreach

Courses, Lectures and Demos

Work

Gallery

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Blog

My Journal

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I’m reachable on all social media platforms and traditional email. I’m open for conversations around representation, mentoring, science, community and collaboration.

Dr Carmel Martin-Fairey

Educator,  Advocate, Scholar