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Dr Marloes Nitert Dekker

Senior Lecturer
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The University of Queensland
Australia

Biography

Marloes Dekker has a MSc in Medical Biology from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She moved to Sweden to study the role of Insulin and IGF-1 receptors in endothelial cells obtaining a Licentiate Degree in Medical Cell Biology at Linköping University, Sweden in 2005. She pursued her PhD at Lund Univeristy, Sweden in Molecular Metabolism of the pancreatic beta cells (2007). In her first post-doctoral scholarship funded by the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Disease Genetics and the Swedish Society for Medical Research, she investigated the role of epigentics in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. She moved to Australia in 2011 to pursue research into metabolism in pregnancy. She is the key scientist of the SPRING RCT team which aims to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus in overweight and obese pregnant women with probiotics. Marloes joined the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences as a Senior Lecturer in Metabolism and to continue her research into metabolism and the microbiome in pregnancy.

Research Interest

The focus of the Metabolism and Microbiome in Pregnancy lab is on understanding the role of the microbiome in shaping metabolic changes in pregnancy and pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes mellitus and preeclampsia. The rate of pregnancy complications is increasing in line with the rise in overweight and obesity in women of childbearing age. Recently, it has become clear that the microbiome i.e. the composite of microorganisms present on an organism, is an important regulator of many physiological processes including metabolism and immunity. The lab uses samples obtained from clinical studies to investigate the mechanisms by which the microbiome regulates metabolism in pregnancy. The lab has a close collaboration with clinician scientists at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital: Professor Leonie Callaway and Dr Helen Barrett, and the Mater Mothers' Hospital: Professor David McIntyre and Dr Shelley Wilkinson. We also work with the laboratory of Professor Mark Morrison at the TRI on the microbiome studies. For our lipid studies, we recently started a collaboration with Associate Professor Barbara Meyer at the University of Wollongong and Dr Dilys Freeman at the University of Glasgow, UK. Our research group is part of the Queensland Perinatal Consortium (QPACT), a collaboration between research groups interested in perinatal research within South-East Queensland. Secondary Research Areas: Infection and Immunity Molecular Genetics and Genomics

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