Allison Appleton

Biography

Dr. Allison Appleton is an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany (SUNY) School of Public Health, in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She received a Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in Social Epidemiology and Maternal and Child Health and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, also at Harvard. Dr. Appleton joined the Marsit lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences training program to gain expertise in genomic and epigenomic biomarkers of disease. Dr. Appleton's work follows a developmental origins of disease framework where exposures occurring during the earliest and most sensitive periods of human development have significant consequences for disease risk over the life course. Dr. Appleton continues to collaborate with Marsit Lab colleagues in studying the association of DNA methylation of genes involved in the stress response and infant neurodevelopment, and whether such associations are patterned according to maternal experiences of social and psychological adversity.

Research Interest

Cardiovascular Epidemiology, epigenomic biomarkers,  DNA methylation