Meaghan Griffiths (PhD)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Centre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Regeneration and Repair
Contact details
- Email: meaghan.griffiths@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Office 3.43
Centre for Reproductive Health
Institute for Regeneration and Repair
4-5 Little France Drive - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UU
Background
Meaghan obtained her Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Monash University in 2017, which sparked an interest and passion for reproductive biology research. She then undertook a PhD at the Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, studying how exogenous insults (eg. cancer therapies) impact pregnancy and uterine function. After finishing her PhD in 2021, Meaghan pivoted into endometriosis research as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne. Meaghan relocated to Edinburgh in 2023 where she worked with the EXPPECT Edinburgh team on mechanisms underlying infertility for women with endometriosis. She now works within Professor Niamh Forde's group studying the impact of heat stress on pregnancy.
Qualifications
PhD, Monash University, Australia
BSc (Honours), Monash University, Australia
Responsibilities & affiliations
2024-2026, Associate Editor, Molecular Human Reproduction
2024 Organising committee, CMVM Post-doctoral Symposium
Research summary
Exogenous insults to the uterus that compromise fertility and pregnancy. Examples include, conditions like endometriosis, or environmental insults like heat stress. Using animal models of reproductive health, complemented by in vitro approaches to understand the fundamental biological mechanisms.
Funding
2024 Deanery of Clinical Sciences Funding Challenge, University of Edinburgh
2024 Barbour Watson Trust, University of Edinburgh
Past funding
2023 Early Career Researcher grant, University of Melbourne
2021 Monash Biomedical Imaging User access grant, Monash University
Awards
2023 Early Career Researcher Collaborative Travel Award, Society for Reproductive Biology
2022 Henry and Rachel Ackman travelling scholarship, University of Melbourne
2021 Post-graduate Publication Award, Monash University
Conference details
2024
Oral and poster presenter, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Blair Bell Annual Academic Meeting
2023
Oral presenter, 15th World Congress on Endometriosis, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Oral presenter, UK Endometriosis Network meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom
2022
Illumina Flash talk winner and poster presenter, Early Career Academic Research Symposium, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
PhD prize winner, Fertility 2022, UK
Poster presenter, Society for Reproductive Biology Annual Meeting, Christchurch, New Zealand
2021
Oral presenter, Society of Reproductive Biology (SRB) Annual meeting
Elsevier Trophoblast Research Award runner-up, International Federation of Placenta Associations (IFPA) Virtual Meeting
Poster presenter, Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) 68th Annual Meeting
Poster presenter, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) 37th Annual Meeting
2020
ANZPRA New Investigator award winner, Society of Reproductive Biology (SRB) Virtual Awards meeting
Poster presenter, Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) Virtual meeting
2019
Best oral presenter runner-up, Biomed Link, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Oral presenter, Society of Reproductive Biology (SRB) Annual meeting, Sydney, Australia
2018
Oral presenter, Australian Reproduction Update (ARU), Melbourne, Australia
David Healy New Investigator award finalist, Society of Reproductive Biology (SRB) Annual meeting, Adelaide, Australia
Invited speaker
2023
Endometrium Satellite, Society for Reproductive Investigation Annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia