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Dr Jane Cleal is a lecturer in Reproductive Cell Biology in the Faculty of medicine at the 黑料社.
鈥楳y research investigates the molecular mechanisms that regulate the placenta and maternal tissues during pregnancy so as to translate the findings into interventions to improve pregnancy outcome and fetal growth.鈥
Dr Cleal was appointed to her current post as a lecturer in the FoM in 2010. She leads a research team integrating whole systems biology with cellular and molecular mechanisms in relation to fundamental developmental physiology, reproductive and pregnancy disorders (see Research pages) and collaborates with a number of national and international researchers. She is a committee member on several panels including the BBSRC and International Workshop for Vitamin D.
Dr Cleal鈥檚 interfaculty education roles span undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the Faculties of Medicine and Environmental & Life Sciences and include Deputy Programme lead for the BM6 widening access to medicine degree (see Teaching section). Her outreach activities introduce both the public and school children to reproductive science and making healthy life choices.
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Research
Research interests
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- Reproductive Cell Biology 鈥 Fundamental mechanisms of cell biology in placenta and endometrium and the impact on the intra-uterine environment, fetal development and lifelong health.Regulation of Reproductive Cell Biology 鈥 Maternal exposures and molecular regulation of cellular gene expression, phenotype and function in placenta and endometrium and the clinical translation.Disease/phenotype 鈥 Fetal growth, Obesity, Cardiometabolic programming, Subfertility, Recurrent pregnancy loss.Cellular mechanisms 鈥 Membrane transport, endocytosis, vesicular transport & signalling, gene transcription, microRNA biology, epigenetic regulation.Vitamin D - Transport, regulation, metabolism and signalling.
Current research
2023-2027: Wessex Medical Research/Rosetrees Trust PhD Studentship 鈥楥an endometrial gland structure and function help us understand why some women are more at risk of miscarriage than others?鈥 (Cleal, Lewis, Cheong)
2021-2025: BBSRC SoCoBio-DTP PhD Studentship 鈥楾he role of endometrial gland derived extracellular vesicles in mediating an optimal uterine environment鈥 (Cleal, Lewis, Newbury (Sussex), Cheong)
2020-2023: Royal Society Grant 鈥楥ould climate change developmentally programme lifelong health in Caribbean farming communities?鈥 (Cleal, Poore, Hanson, Ermler (Brunel) Forrester & Rhiney (UWI, Jamaica))
2019-2023: Wellbeing of Women (WOW) project Grant 鈥楩unctional gene mapping of the endometrial phenotype involved in successful pregnancy: combining 3D imaging and single cell transcriptomics鈥 (Cleal, Cheong, Laird (Sheffield), Lewis)
2019-2023: Gerald Kerkut Trust & Vice Chancellors PhD Studentship 鈥楳echanisms of placental vitamin D handling and programming of obesity鈥 (Cleal, Sethi, Lewis, Harvey)
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Deputy Programme Lead: BM6 Faculty of Medicine
Module lead: MEDI0011 Human Structure & Function 1, Faculty of Medicine
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Biography
Dr Jane Cleal is a lecturer in Reproductive Cell Biology in the Faculty of medicine at the 黑料社.
Dr Cleal completed her PhD in 2005 with Professor Hanson and Dr Green at the 黑料社 and working at the Royal Veterinary College, London. She developed an ovine model showing for the first time that fetal nutrition determines ovine adult CV function and influences postnatal nutrient restriction response (Cleal et al., 2007 PNAS). Dr Cleal remained in Southampton, supported by a School of Medicine Career Track Fellowship. Her studies in humans have made significant progress in understanding how amino acids get out of the human placenta and into the fetal circulation. Dr Cleal was appointed to her current post as a lecturer in the FoM in 2010.
She now leads a research team integrating whole systems biology with cellular and molecular mechanisms in relation to fundamental developmental physiology, reproductive and pregnancy disorders (see Research pages) and collaborates with a number of national and international researchers.
Dr Cleal has an active role in professional societies and is a committee member on several panels including the BBSRC and International Workshop for Vitamin D. She is the Physiological Society Representative for the 黑料社.
Dr Cleal鈥檚 interfaculty education roles span undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the Faculties of Medicine and Environmental & Life Sciences and include Deputy Programme lead for the BM6 widening access to medicine degree (see Teaching section). Her outreach activities introduce both the public and school children to reproductive science and making healthy life choices.
Qualifications
- (2013) Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- (2013) PG Cert in Academic Practice, Education, 黑料社
- (2005) PhD, Faculty of Medicine, 黑料社
- (2001) Ist Class BSc (Hons), Molecular Cell Biology, 黑料社
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