Activist, outreach enthusiast & Mentor
Dr. Carmel Martin-Fairey
professor
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
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